The estuarine ecosystem, a cornerstone in coastal areas’ ecological, social, and economic structuring, is of paramount importance (Odum 1984). Its diverse habitats, suitable for reproduction, feeding, ...

Allometric growth describes the non-uniform scaling of body parts during larval development, reflecting shifting priorities among feeding, locomotion, respiration and sensory functions. In the ...

Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal CNC-UC─Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de ...

Masked hypertension (MH) occurs when office blood pressure is normal, but hypertension is confirmed using out-of-office blood pressure measures. Hypertension is a risk factor for subclinical ...

This paper is the first to differentiate between concave and convex price motion trajectories by applying visibility-graph and invisibility-graph algorithms to the analyses of stock indices. Concave ...

Coastal margins host some of the most productive habitats on the planet, yet there is still significant uncertainty about the magnitude of carbon fluxes across the land/ocean interface. Scaling up in ...

1 Laboratory of Ecosystems Management and Planning, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China. 2 Département des Techniques Forestières, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie ...

One of the most important features of spatial networks—such as transportation networks, power grids, the Internet, and neural networks—is the existence of a cost associated with the length of links.