PROJECTING THE POTENTIAL GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF SWEETGUM INSCRIBER, ACANTHOTOMICUS SUNCEI (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE: SCOLYTINAE) CONCERNING THE HOST LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS

Acanthotomicus suncei is a newly discovered bark beetle in China that significantly threatens the American sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua.In recent years, this pest has spread from its original habitat to many surrounding cities, causing substantial economic and ecological losses.Considering the wide global distribution of its host, Liquidambar s

The UniFrac distance metric is often used to separate groups in microbiome analysis, but requires a constant sequencing depth to work properly.Here we demonstrate that unweighted UniFrac is highly sensitive to rarefaction instance and to sequencing depth in uniform data sets with no clear structure or separation Feeding between groups.We show that

A range of non-human animals frequently manipulate and explore objects in their environment, which may enable them to learn about physical properties and potentially form more abstract concepts of properties such as weight and rigidity.Whether animals can apply the information learned during their exploration to solve novel problems, however, and w

During the last decade, research has brought forth a large amount of studies that investigated driving automation from a human factor perspective.Due to the multitude of possibilities for the study design with regard to the investigated constructs, data collection methods, and evaluated parameters, at present, the pool of Additional Arm findings is

A model of polymer chains as compressible elastic spheres in flow is presented.The spherical polymer blobs are assumed to compress in simple Couette flow in accord Keepsakes with recent rheo-optic measurements on semi-dilute solutions.The experimentally determined decrease in radius with increasing shear rate is predicted by Realistic Dildos the mo