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    important fishing ground in the northern China Sea (Shan et al., 2013). Laizhou Bay is an estuary of the Yellow River, and has high primary productivity. It represents an essential nursing and feeding area for many species (2et al., 2013). There is low biomass in the river, but the presence of few and unique indigenous fish make the conservation of fish species an important element of environmental protection. According to a China WaterCentre report, there are 191 species and subspecies in the…

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    Food Web Hypothesis

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    carnivores, which all feed on all eight herbivores, along with a mixture of some of the other predators. Because, they are at the top of the food web, there is less energy available, because some is lost at each level in the web. This is known as the biomass pyramid. This also means that the carnivores populations are normally lower compared to the herbivores, which follows the number pyramid. The number pyramid states that a large number of organisms are required at the base of the pyramid(the…

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    the hypothesis that urban trees would grow slower. The results show that the urban cottonwood grew nearly twice that height of rural cottonwood. The study found that the amount of biomass (total mass of an organism) was inversely related to the amount of O3 the tree received. The more O3 the trees absorb the less biomass. However, pollutants had no effect on plant growth as previously thought. The results contradict my hypothesis as well that an urban environment will negatively affect tree…

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    Refinery Chemistry Essay

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    1.2.1 Refinery Processes It is impertinent to overlook at the refinery chemistry before describing the refinery processes. The chemistry is part of the refinery’s conversion section, which gets affected when the upgrading is considered. The conversion section purpose is to enhance the liquid fuels. There are two types of techniques under the section: a. Hydrogen addition technologies: Processes using this technology react hydrogen with the oil heavy products to enhance the H/C such that the…

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    Gelderland Case Study

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    Previous INTERREG programmes Preceding funding periods were notably focused on 2 main programmes: cross-border cooperation Deutschland – Nederland and transnational North-West Europe. From the beginning of INTERREG has been implementing the programme helping cooperation on both sides of German and Dutch border, however, at first programme was focused on connections from both sides on all levels of cooperation. Then programme was divided into four regions and one them is Euregion Rhine-Waal…

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    MARKET ANALYSIS/MARKETING STRATEGY The (company name) will create a successful marketing plan to publish the product that we are work on ti which is lutein, in this section we will cover the following topics: the benefits of lutein to the patients who are in the early stage of AMD disease, general overview about lutein industry background, and marketing strategy and analysis. The benefits of lutein: Our company know clearly the benefits of lutein to the patents which help to build the human…

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    Wildlife Climate Change

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    Wildlife is an important member of the ecosystem, the rise and fall of its population will affect the stability of the ecosystem of its existence. Global Climate Change The vast geographical, has led to far-reaching effects of wildlife severely affected. From polar to equatorial tropics, from the ocean to the inland. Everywhere Display The signs of change, these changes have attracted the attention of many scientists. And its extensive research. Climate and composition in different regions…

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    accessible form. Once the epiphyte dies it decomposes, releasing high nutrient organic matter into canopy soil that benefits animals and other plants suspended off the ground. (Clark, Nadkarni, and Gholz, 2005). Since aerial plants constitute much of the biomass in cloud forests and have a short life span, they also turnover nitrogen and produce canopy soil more rapidly than woody species (Nadkarni, 2000). Therefore, epiphytic presence critically enhances nutrient cycling in cloud…

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    Wind Energy Effects

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    As our world continues to grow and develop, we switch over from energy resources such as wood, agricultural residues, and manure to new, highly valuable energy sources and gases. These modern energy sources help achieve basic human needs of health, lighting, and temperature, as well as, reduce the labor involved in creating the energy. This encourages industrial growth and development, but these new energy sources also have a downside. They emit harmful substances into the atmosphere, and as a…

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    In bioturbation literature, it is often assumed that microbially-mediated processes have been affected by bioturbation, with no analysis of the microbial community (Kristensen, 1984, Kristensen, 1985, Kristensen and Blackburn, 1987, Gilbert et al., 1998, Christensen et al., 2000, Michaud et al., 2006, Bonaglia et al., 2014). For example, variations in microbial nutrient remineralisation (Renz and Forster, 2013), and declines in sediment functioning under reduced pH conditions (Widdicombe and…

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