Methane seeping induced by natural gas hydrate dissociation is ubiquitous in deep-sea environment, which influences the global methane and carbon budget. Nevertheless, the phase equilibrium char-acteristics that control the stability of hydrate formation during the bubble ebullition process in the in-situ multi-component environment remain unclear....
Although forest ecosystems play an essential role in climate stabilization, current climatic shifts might cause striking changes in their biological productivity, which, in turn, affects the biosphere function of forests. Studies of the relationship between the biomass of trees and stands and hydrothermal indicators (temperature and precipitation) ...
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Published in Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany)
The climate is changing rapidly, provoking species to shift their ranges poleward and upslope. We currently lack a mechanistic understanding of the effect of warmer temperatures on plants, especially for seasonally distinct patterns. Spring geophytes are emblematic forest plants that have a short aboveground lifecycle in the first half of the year ...
Current climate change aggravates human health hazards posed by heat stress. Forests can locally mitigate this by acting as strong thermal buffers, yet potential mediation by forest ecological characteristics remains underexplored. We report over 14 months of hourly microclimate data from 131 forest plots across four European countries and compare ...
This work evaluates the impact of different organic acids on the corrosion sensitivity and stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) of NiCrMoV steam turbine steel. For all organic acids, potentiodynamic measurements shows linear relationships between corrosion rate and hydrogen proton concentration between pH 2.4 and 3.9. For solutions with the same pH, i.e...
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Despite the surging interest in the interactions between toxicants and non-chemical stressors, and in evolutionary ecotoxicology, we have poor knowledge whether these patterns differ among genotypes within a population. Warming and toxicants are two widespread stressors in aquatic systems that are known to modify each other's effects. We studied to...
The disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) in deep stable geological formations is accepted at an international level to be the most promising option for its long-term management. The supercontainer concept is currently being considered as the Belgian reference design, wherein the waste will be stored in geological stable clay formations. T...
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