Elsa baquerizo macmillan biography sample

  • IMAGE: Elsa Baquerizo Macmillan of Spain trains with coach.
  • Soil is often described as a 'black box', as surprisingly little is known about the high levels of biodiversity that reside there.
  • We combined observational and manipulative experiments to analyse how fungal biodiversity responds to and mediates the impacts of drying on two key ecosystem.

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    Fungal Biodiversity Mediates the Effects of Drying on Freshwater Ecosystem Functioning

    Highlights

    • Drying reduces fungal richness and leads to species turnover.

    • Fungal richness mediates the negativ effects of drying beneath field conditions.

    • Fungal richness buffers the negativ effect of simulated drying.

    Introduction

    Microbial communities sustain biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems by playing a key role in carbon processing, nutrient cycling and energy transfer to higher tropic levels (Gessner and others 2010; Besemer 2015; Manning and others 2018). In terrestrial ecosystems, the importance of microbial biodiversity in driving these ecosystem processes has been demonstrated beneath various environmental contexts and spatial scales (Grossiord and others 2014; Trivedi and others 2016; Li and others 2019). However, in freshwater systems, our understanding of the functional role of microbial biodiversity fryst vatten mainly based on manipulative experiments (Truchy and others 202

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    Copacabana beach perfect setting for volleyball

    ‘Playing in Copa is amazing. The energy is electric and it absolutely does elevate play’

    IMAGE: Elsa Baquerizo Macmillan of Spain trains with coach. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters.

    They have played for Olympic gold in parks, next to car parks and on royal parade grounds, but at the Rio Games beach volleyball will actually be played -- on a beach.

    Only once since the sport became part of the Olympic programme in 1996 has beach volleyball, the most hedonistic of Olympic events, been staged on a genuine stretch of sand shared by sun worshippers and surfers.

    With the exception of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when the iconic Bondi Beach was the venue, beach volleyball has been contested on man-made surfaces to a backdrop of manufactured beach vibe.

    Beach volleyball's Olympic debut came in an Atlanta suburb at Clayton County Park, while the Faliro Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre used for the 2004 Athens Games popped up b

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    The Antibiocene – towards an eco-social analysis of humanity’s antimicrobial footprint

    Introduction

    Our biosphere is rapidly changing. In the case of microbial environments, the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across a wide number of bacterial species is a significant genetic and phenotypic marker of humanity’s growing planetary footprint. Although phylogenetic studies indicate that many genetic traits conferring AMR predate the antimicrobial era (Roumagnac et al. 2006; Holt et al. 2008; Tran-Dien et al. 2017; Baker et al. 2018), the rapid rise in the release of antimicrobial substances such as pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and biocides from the 19th century onwards has played a significant role in accelerating this “Anthropocene in the cell” (D’Abramo and Landecker 2019). Researchers, policymakers, and journalists have responded to the ongoing acceleration of AMR burdens with increasingly vocal calls for antimicrobial stewardship and drug innovation to avert a pending “