Effects of gold and copper mining on the structure and diversity of the surrounding plant communities in Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park

IntroductionNortheast China Tiger and Leopard National Park is home to the largest and only breeding family of wild tigers and leopards in China.The mining of open-pit gold and copper mines in the core zone might affect the surrounding forest ecosystem and the survival activities of wild tigers and leopards.MethodsIn order to understand the impacts

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Gone with the plate: the opening of the Western Mediterranean basin drove the diversification of ground-dweller spiders

Abstract Background The major islands of the Western Mediterranean--Corsica, Sardinia, and the ASCORBYL PALMITATE Balearic Islands--are continental terrenes that drifted towards their present day location following a retreat from their original position on the eastern Iberian Peninsula about 30 million years ago.Several studies have taken advantage

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