The Invasion Curve: A Tool for Understanding Invasive Species Management in South Florida by Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“… South Florida has more than its share of invasive plants, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, birds, and invertebrates. Nonnative species often spread quickly. …”
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Genetic Diversity of Freshwater Leeches in Lake Gusinoe (Eastern Siberia, Russia) by Irina A. Kaygorodova, Nadezhda Mandzyak, Ekaterina Petryaeva, Nikolay M. Pronin

“…The validity of morphological identification of each taxon has been verified by phylogenetic approach with a molecular marker adopted for a DNA barcoding of most invertebrates.…”
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Food web dynamics in a seasonally varying wetland by Donald L. DeAngelis, Joel C. Trexler, Douglas D. Donalson

“…A spatially explicit model is developed to simulate the small fish communityand its underlying food web, in the freshwater marshes of the Everglades.The community is simplified to a few small fish species feeding onperiphyton and invertebrates. Other compartments are detritus, crayfish, anda piscivorous fish species. …”
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Exposed! The Public Life of Carboniferous Fossils in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark, Ireland by Eamon Doyle

“…The least abundant fossils, the vertebrates, have the highest promotional potential, while locally well-known trace fossils are also considered high potential. The invertebrates are of lower promotional value; however, that is changing with increasing public education. …”
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Deep water vetulicolians from the lower Cambrian of China by Shuhan Ma, Julien Kimmig, James D. Schiffbauer, Ruibo Li, Shanchi Peng, Xianfeng Yang

“…Vetulicolians are an enigmatic phylum of extinct Cambrian marine invertebrates. They are particularly diverse in the Chengjiang Biota of China, but representatives have been recovered from other Fossil-Lagerstätten (Cambrian Stage 3-Drumian). …”
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The Invasion Curve: A Tool for Understanding Invasive Species Management in South Florida by Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“… South Florida has more than its share of invasive plants, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mammals, birds, and invertebrates. Nonnative species often spread quickly. …”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…About 400 million people rely on coral reef fish as a source of protein; about 6 million people make a living by catching and selling coral reef fish and invertebrates; tourism activities like SCUBA diving and snorkeling provide revenue of US $9.6 billion per year; and reefs reduce wave energy by 97%, helping to protect 197 million people in coastal areas from beach erosion, wave energy, and flooding. …”
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Pantropical Jumping Spiders in Florida by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…Their sense of sight is extraordinary for invertebrates; they can see in color (DeVoe 1975), and the large front eyes focus on objects (Land 1972). …”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…About 400 million people rely on coral reef fish as a source of protein; about 6 million people make a living by catching and selling coral reef fish and invertebrates; tourism activities like SCUBA diving and snorkeling provide revenue of US $9.6 billion per year; and reefs reduce wave energy by 97%, helping to protect 197 million people in coastal areas from beach erosion, wave energy, and flooding. …”
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Pantropical Jumping Spiders in Florida by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…Their sense of sight is extraordinary for invertebrates; they can see in color (DeVoe 1975), and the large front eyes focus on objects (Land 1972). …”
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Figs Are More Than Fallback Foods: The Relationship between Ficus and Cebus in a Tropical Dry Forest by Nigel A. Parr, Amanda D. Melin, Linda Marie Fedigan

“…Capuchins also increase time spent foraging for fruit and decrease time spent foraging for invertebrates on days when figs trees are visited. Capuchins experience higher energy intake and lower energy output on “fig” days. …”
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Far beyond Phagocytosis: Phagocyte-Derived Extracellular Traps Act Efficiently against Protozoan Parasites In Vitro and In Vivo by Liliana M. R. Silva, Tamara Muñoz-Caro, Rafael A. Burgos, Maria A. Hidalgo, Anja Taubert, Carlos Hermosilla

“…Recent investigations showed evidence that ETosis is a widely spread effector mechanism in vertebrates and invertebrates being utilized to entrap and kill bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoan parasites. …”
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APPLICATION OF THE ZOO/PLANKTON INDICATORS FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IMPACT UPON COOLING POOLS by Dmitriy V. Kulakov

“…In Koporye Bay, a part of the Bay of Finland water area, discharge of warmed waters of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant caused the decrease of plankton invertebrates’ quantitative indicators. In the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant cooling pool warming in the most cases was favorable for the zooplankton abundance and biomass increase. …”

Marine Diterpenoids as Potential Anti-Inflammatory Agents by Yisett González, Daniel Torres-Mendoza, Gillian E. Jones, Patricia L. Fernandez

“…The search for agents inhibiting inflammation is a great challenge as the inflammatory response plays an important role in the defense of the host to infections. Marine invertebrates are exceptional sources of new natural products, and among those diterpenoids secondary metabolites exhibit notable anti-inflammatory properties. …”
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Characterization of Littoral Macrozoobenthos Communities of the Kuybyshev Reservoir in the Area of Kazan by G.S. Tarasov, O.I. Khamitov, L.A. Frolova

“…These taxa belong to the following groups of invertebrates: the phyllum of Mollusca (the classes of Bivalvia and Gastropoda), the class of Insecta (the orders of Diptera, Ephemer-optera, Odonata), and the phyllum of Annelida (the classes of Oligochaeta and Hirudinea). …”
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Biomolecules of the Horseshoe Crab’s Hemolymph: Components of an Ancient Defensive Mechanism and Its Impact on the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry by Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Mamudul Hasan Razu, Nazmir-Nur Showva, Tohmina Afroze Bondhon, Md. Moniruzzaman, Sad Al Rezwan Rahman, Md. Raisul Islam Rabby, Fatema Akter, Mala Khan

“…Without adaptive immunity, invertebrates have evolved innate immune systems that react to antigens on the surfaces of pathogens. …”
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Flora i fauna rezerwatu przyrody Jezioro Kiełpińskie i sąsiednich starorzeczy w strefie podmiejskiej Warszawy by Jerzy Romanowski, Paweł Boniecki, Anita Kaliszewicz, Marek Kloss, Izabella Olejniczka

“…Field surveys for aquatic plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates along the banks of Kiełpińskie Lake and surrounding oxbows were conducted in June – August 2010. …”
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Introduced Spiders in Panama: Species Distributions and New Records by Daniel Murcia-Moreno, Dumas Gálvez

“…Invasive species are well recorded for vertebrates, plants and a number of invertebrates. A taxa for which there is a lack of information in some countries are arachnids, and this is the case of reports on introduced species in Panama. …”
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The effect of formaldehyde solution in pitfall traps on the probability of catching woodlice (Isopoda, Oniscidea) by Ivan Hadrián Tuf, Lucie Novotná, Pavel Fryčka

“…Pitfall traps containing a fixative solution are commonly used by ecologists to study ground-dwelling invertebrates. The effect of the solution on the animals being caught is a frequent topic of studies. …”
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Determining nutritional indices of Dori bleak, Alburnus doriae and Brond Snout, Chondrostoma regium in Zayandehroud River, Central Iran by Omidvar Farhadian, JAVAD BAGHERI, Nasrollah Mahboobi Soofiani, Safiollah Heidari, Eisa Ebrahimi

“…They usually feed on insects and other aquatic invertebrates. The gut content analysis is one of the most widely used methods for identifying fish's food and feeding habits. …”
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