ANNUAL PROTIST COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN A FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM UNDERGOING CONTRASTED CLIMATIC CONDITIONS: THE SAINT-CHARLES RIVER (CANADA)

Annual Protist Community Dynamics in a Freshwater Ecosystem Undergoing Contrasted Climatic Conditions: The Saint-Charles River (Canada)

Protists are key stone components of aquatic ecosystems, sustaining primary productivity and aquatic food webs.However, their diversity, ecology and structuring factors shaping their temporal distribution remain strongly misunderstood in freshwaters.Using high-throughput sequencing on water samples collected over 16 different months (including two

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Brown bear behaviour in human-modified landscapes: The case of the endangered Cantabrian population, NW Spain

Large carnivores are recolonizing parts of their historical range in Washing Machine Control Knob Europe, a heavily modified human landscape.This calls for an improvement of our knowledge on how large carnivores manage to coexist with humans, and on the effects that human activity has on large carnivore behaviour, especially in areas where carnivor

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Human enhancement and morality: Some theoretical doubts

The author tackles the critical ethical ideas accompanying the idea that man can be "morally enhanced" by influencing the "moral brain".Analyzing the primary approach of contemporary neuroethicists, the author notes that the idea of improvement mainly omits normative-ethical and metaethical elements, without which a clear idea of what can be consid

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