Natural complexity
The use of complexity-based approaches may help to advance our understanding of Earth as a system.
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Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer
Read more of: Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deerThe study of animal foraging behaviour is of practical ecological importance1, and exemplifies the wider scientific problem of optimizing search strategies2. Lévy flights are random walks, the step lengths of […]
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Utility of geolocating light loggers to indicate at-sea movements in sea turtles
Read more of: Utility of geolocating light loggers to indicate at-sea movements in sea turtlesAs marine turtles traverse entire ocean basins, a number of techniques have been developed to gather information on their movements at sea. These range from basic methods, such as mark […]
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Foraging ecology of the Cook’s petrel Pterodroma cookii during the austral breeding season: a comparison of its two populations
Read more of: Foraging ecology of the Cook’s petrel Pterodroma cookii during the austral breeding season: a comparison of its two populationsThis study examined divergence in the foraging distribution, at-sea behaviour and provisioning strategies of a small procellarid, the Cook’s petrel Pterodroma cookii, during chick-rearing at 2 islands off New Zealand, […]
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Foraging ecology of albatrosses and petrels from South Georgia: two decades of insights from tracking technologies
Read more of: Foraging ecology of albatrosses and petrels from South Georgia: two decades of insights from tracking technologies1. A wide range of instrumentation has been deployed on albatrosses and petrels at Bird Island, South Georgia, in studies dating back to the mid-1980s. Early results indicated the huge […]
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Phylogeography of the southern skua complex – rapid colonisation of the southern hemisphere during a glacial period and reticulate evolution
Read more of: Phylogeography of the southern skua complex – rapid colonisation of the southern hemisphere during a glacial period and reticulate evolutionWhilst we have now a good understanding how past glaciation influenced species at the northern hemisphere, our knowledge of patterns and modes of speciation is far more limited for the […]
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Continuous flow analysis of total organic carbon in polar ice cores
Read more of: Continuous flow analysis of total organic carbon in polar ice coresIce cores are a widely used archive to reconstruct past changes of the climate system. This is done by measuring the concentration of substances in the ice and in the […]
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The past is a guide to the future? Comparing Middle Pliocene vegetation with predicted biome distributions for the twenty-first century
Read more of: The past is a guide to the future? Comparing Middle Pliocene vegetation with predicted biome distributions for the twenty-first centuryDuring the Middle Pliocene, the Earth experienced greater global warmth compared with today, coupled with higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. To determine the extent to which the Middle Pliocene can be […]
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On the use of IMAGE FUV for estimating the latitude of the open/closed magnetic field line boundary in the ionosphere
Read more of: On the use of IMAGE FUV for estimating the latitude of the open/closed magnetic field line boundary in the ionosphereA statistical comparison of the latitude of the open/closed magnetic field line boundary (OCB) as estimated from the three far ultraviolet (FUV) detectors onboard the IMAGE spacecraft (the Wideband Imaging […]
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Atmospheric temperature responses to solar irradiance and geomagnetic activity
Read more of: Atmospheric temperature responses to solar irradiance and geomagnetic activityThe relative effects of solar irradiance and geomagnetic activity on the atmospheric temperature anomalies (Ta) are examined from the monthly to interdecadal timescales. Geomagnetic Ap (Ap) signals are found primarily […]