'Life styles' of desert biota are adapted to meet the never-ending challenge of extreme temporal variability and unpredictability in a resource-deficient landscape with small, isolated pockets of rich resources.
The parameters of selenium mobility in soils (i.e., the element total content, plant-accumulation coefficient (Kb) and/or mobile form ratio) in Urov biogeochemical provinces of the East Transbaikalia are quite comparable to the element migration parameters found in selenium-deficient landscapes of the same area.
One of the greatest challenges for conservation biology is providing solutions for endangered species in modern landscapes, usually with deficient biological information on how species respond to landscape disturbances.
We present two sample results of this methodology implemented in a 840 km2 irrigated landscape located in a water-deficient watershed in southwestern France.
Although in recent years, with the growing awareness of their ecological and recreational potential, considerable efforts are being invested in the rehabilitation of deteriorated riparian landscapes, their protection is still deficient.
Soils from landlocked and mountainous regions, flood plain areas and accumulative landscapes are known for being environmentally iodine deficient, as reported in studies from Turkey [ 17], China [ 18] and the central Russian plain [ 19].
The selective occupancy of TRIM33 within the active enhancer landscape may account for the minimal phenotypes observed in TRIM33-deficient mice.
Only with The Butcher Boy, the story of a mentally deficient delinquent named Francie Brady, did he manage to find the right inhabitants for this landscape, a coterie of Arcadian grotesques whose broad psychological brush-strokes and deliberately caricatured contours reflected McCabe's obsession with comic-book heroes, popular music, classic TV shows and film noir.
Such evidence, however, shows that all three theories are deficient; their definitions of what is a norm are too rigid and limited to account for the rich landscape of norm-induced behavior.
The recent success of PARP inhibitors in BRCA2-deficient breast and ovarian cancer has made the promise of inhibitors of DNA repair to transform the therapeutic landscape in cancer more apparent.
To better understand how DNA modifications contribute to neuronal function, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the epigenetic and transcriptional landscapes of Dnmt3a-deficient mature olfactory sensory neurons (mOSNs), the primary sensory neurons of the olfactory epithelium.
