We applied a multi-taxa approach integrating the co-occurrence of plants,ground beetles,spiders and springtails with soil parameters(temperatures and chemical characteristics)in order to describe the primary successio...
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We applied a multi-taxa approach integrating the co-occurrence of plants,ground beetles,spiders and springtails with soil parameters(temperatures and chemical characteristics)in order to describe the primary succession along two glacier forelands in the Maritime Alps(Italy),a hotspot of Mediterranean *** compared these successions to those from Central Alps:Maritime glacier forelands markedly differ for their higher values of species richness and species *** to our expectation,Maritime glacier forelands follow a‘replacement change model’,like continental succession of Inner Alps and differently from other peripheral *** propose that the temperatures along these Mediterranean glacier forelands are warmer than those along other Alpine glacier forelands,which promote the faster species ***,we found that early and mid successional stages of the investigated glaciers are richer in cold-adapted and endemic species than the later ones:we confirmed that the‘replacement change’model disadvantages pioneer,cold-adapted *** the overall correspondence among coldadapted and endemic species,the most threatened in this climate phase,our results raise new concerns about the extinction risk of these *** also describe supraglacial habitat of Maritime glaciers demonstrating that supraglacial debris represents an environment decoupled from the regional climate and may have an important role as refugium for coldadapted and hygrophilous plant and animal species,whose survival can be threatened by climate change and by a rapid ecological succession in the adjacent forelands.
Long chain phosphate esters bearing at least one or two aryl groups have been synthesized and used for the preparation of stable multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) hybrids. The non-covalent interaction ester/MWCNT h...
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Long chain phosphate esters bearing at least one or two aryl groups have been synthesized and used for the preparation of stable multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) hybrids. The non-covalent interaction ester/MWCNT has been investigated by several techniques (SEM, UV-vis, 31P-NMR, RAMAN). The used phosphate ester derivatives demonstrated the ability to produce an excellent dispersion of MWCNT in CHCl3. The obtained dispersions showed a great stability from one to at least three weeks in the range of concentration considered. Thermal analysis showed an increase in the decomposition temperature for the hybrids with respect to pristine MWCNT.
Energy consumption of the EU has a crucial environmental impact;several efforts are nowadays thus directed into massively reducing energy consumption by envelope improvement,system efficiency and smart *** the other h...
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Energy consumption of the EU has a crucial environmental impact;several efforts are nowadays thus directed into massively reducing energy consumption by envelope improvement,system efficiency and smart *** the other hand,the indoor thermal and lighting conditions significantly influence users’wellbeing and productivity,which is especially important when dealing with educational and working *** to enhance system efficiency are focused on design and construction *** strategies ease to promote a powerful approach which is needed when focusing on existing buildings in need of retrofit *** dealing with new or refurbished buildings,energy saving has a further step to *** the last years,research trends moved towards an increasing inclusion of human factors in energy *** allows to account for the occupancy variability in the energy analyses,considering how to bridge the performance gap between predictive models and actual consumptions due to indoor thermal *** empty buildings energy consumption is huge and economic efforts are wasted,due to unconscious energy-wasting *** studies with Interactive Virtual Environments confirmed that indoor environments illuminated by different color lights lead to the perception of different levels of thermal *** results of the present paper replicate previous evidence collected in real conditions,suggesting that Virtual Reality is a valid and reliable tool to assess thermal comfort more quickly and *** paper provides a further perspective on this topic,including also the use of different fragrances to understand how the indoor environment could be enhanced and manipulated to increase wellbeing,thermal perception and finally energy saving.
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