Pseudomonas stutzeri and Kushneria marisflavi Alleviate Salinity Stress-Associated Damages in Barley, Lettuce, and Sunflower by Sonia Szymańska, Marta Izabela Lis, Agnieszka Piernik, Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz

“…A negative effect of two higher tested salinities (150 and 300 mM NaCl) was observed on the growth parameters of all investigated plants, including germination percentage and index (decreasing compared to the non-saline control variant in the ranges 5.3–91.7 and 13.6–90.9%, respectively), number of leaves (2.2–39.2%), fresh weight (24.2–81.6%); however, differences in salt stress tolerance among the investigated crops were observed (H. annuus > H. vulgare > L. sativa). …”
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Assessment of the street space quality in the metro station areas at different spatial scales and its impact on the urban vitality by Zhongwei Guo, Keqian Luo, Zhixiang Yan, Ang Hu, Chaoshen Wang, Ying Mao, Shaofei Niu

“…The functionality dimension of street spaces in the sample PCAs of Chengdu present a gradient effect with the highest score of 0–300 m in the circle, while the comfortability dimension of streets shows an opposite trend. …”
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Pelagic Amphipods in the Eastern Fram Strait With Continuing Presence of Themisto compressa Based on Sediment Trap Time Series by Franz Schröter, Franz Schröter, Charlotte Havermans, Charlotte Havermans, Angelina Kraft, Angelina Kraft, Nadine Knüppel, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Eduard Bauerfeind, Eva-Maria Nöthig

“…These swimmers were sampled with sediment traps (∼200–300 m water depth) with two mooring arrays deployed at two different positions in the Long-Term Ecological Research observatory HAUSGARTEN in the northeastern Fram Strait. …”
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Geomorphology and iron sand potential at coastal sediment morphology, Kebumen Regency by Ansori Chusni, Raharjo Puguh Dwi, Setianto Agung, Warmada I Wayan, Setiawan Nugroho Imam

“…The potential of beach sand about 406, 686, 300 m3 similar with 1, 037, 050, 065 tons, total Fe estimated about 629, 696, 799 tons.…”
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Performance Enhancement of Methane Detection Using a Novel Self-Adaptive Mid-Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Technique by Fang Song, Chuantao Zheng, Wanhong Yan, Wei Lin Ye, Yu Zhang, Yiding Wang, Frank K. Tittel

“…Within a noise level range of 0-125 mV for low- and high-frequency noise and 0-62.5 mV for white Gaussian noise in the mercury-cadmium-telluride detector's output (with a pure signal amplitude of ~300 mV), the sensor stability using self-adaptive denoising was enhanced by a factor of 1.05-20, 1.32-6.25, and 1.15-3.33 times compared to that using no filtering, for the three kinds of noise, respectively. …”
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Importância fitossociológica de um fragmento de floresta ombrófila densa no estado de Roraima, Brasil by Luiz Fernandes Silva Dionisio, Osmar Serra Bonfim Filho, Bruno Roberto de Souza Crivelli, Jefferson Peixoto Gomes, Marcelo Henrique Silva de Oliveira, João Olegário Pereira de Carvalho

“…Foram inventariadas todas as árvores com DAP ≥ 15 cm, em 18 parcelas permanentes de 15 x 20 m (300 m²). Foram identificados 175 indivíduos, distribuídos em 17 famílias botânicas, 37 gêneros e 45 espécies. …”
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Salinity Stress is Beneficial to the Accumulation of Chlorogenic Acids in Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica Thunb.) by Kun Yan, Mingxing Cui, Shijie Zhao, Xiaobing Chen, Xiaoli Tang

“…Specifically, the total concentration of leaf chlorogenic acids was increased by 145.74% and 50.34% after 30 days of 150 and 300 mM NaCl stress, respectively. Similarly, the concentrations of chlorogenic acids were higher in the leaves of plants in saline, compared with non-saline, plots, with increases in total concentrations of chlorogenic acids of 56.05% and 105.29% in October 2014 and 2015, respectively. …”
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Cuticular hydrocarbons of alpine bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Bombus) are species-specific, but show little evidence of elevation-related climate adaptation by Fabienne Maihoff, Simone Sahler, Simon Schoger, Kristof Brenzinger, Katharina Kallnik, Nikki Sauer, Lukas Bofinger, Thomas Schmitt, Sabine S. Nooten, Alice Classen

“…Here, we used three different approaches to study the role of bumble bees’ CHCs in the context of climate adaptation: using a 1,300 m elevational gradient, we first investigated whether the overall composition of CHCs, and two potentially climate-associated chemical traits (proportion of saturated components, mean chain length) on the cuticle of six bumble bee species were linked to the species’ elevational niches. …”
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Upper ocean stratification and sea ice growth rates during the summer-fall transition, as revealed by Elephant seal foraging in the Adélie Depression, East Antarctica by G. D. Williams, M. Hindell, M.-N. Houssais, T. Tamura, I. C. Field

“…Heat and freshwater budgets to 200–300 m are used to estimate the ocean heat content (400→50 MJ m<sup>−2</sup>), flux (50–200 W m<sup>−2</sup> loss) and sea ice growth rates (maximum of 7.5–12.5 cm day<sup>−1</sup>). …”
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Impact of data quality and surface-to-column representativeness on the PM_2.5 / satellite AOD relationship for the contiguous United States by T. D. Toth, J. Zhang, J. R. Campbell, E. J. Hyer, J. S. Reid, Y. Shi, D. L. Westphal

“…The best correlation values are found for estimated dry mass CALIOP extinction at 200–300 m a.g.l. and PM_2.5, but additional work is needed to address the ability of using actively sensed AOD as a proxy for PM_2.5 concentrations.…”
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Heavy metal concentrations and water quality assessment of different types of drinking water wells in the Erdenet Cu–Mo mining area by Enkhuur Munkhsuld, Takehiko Murayama, Keisuke Fukushi, Shigeo Nishikizawa, Baasansuren Gankhurel, Tserenkhand Batbold, Altansukh Ochir

“…The most concerning point is that the Mo concentration of waste water in the Erdenet mine tailing pond and at a natural spring located 300 m from the tailing pond was 1100 μg/L, which greatly exceeds the WHO permissible concentration for Mo of 70 μg/L. …”
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Environmental factors affecting germination of Mimosa ephedroides (Fabaceae), an endemic shrub from Monte Desert, Argentina by Sofia Leonor Dágata, María Emilia Fernández, Carlos Bernardo Passera

“…Concerning abiotic factors, the optimum temperature for germination ranged from 20 to 30 ºC, it presented high germination percentages even at moderate and severe water stress (-1.12 MPa), and the germination percentages decreased with increasing salinity levels from 300 mM NaCl. In short periods (up to 36 months), seed storage at room temperature (18ºC) was adequate, not affecting the viability and the germination power of the seeds. …”
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Estado poblacional del pepino de mar (Clase Holothuroidea) en el Caribe de Guatemala by Cristopher G. Avalos-Castillo, José R. Ortí­z-Aldana, Francisco E. Polanco-Vásquez, Alerick Pacay

“…Con este fin, se realizó una evaluación poblacional del pepino de mar a través de transectos lineales de 60 m2, en siete puntos de la bahía de Amatique y la zona expuesta del mar Caribe de Guatemala, durante abril, junio y septiembre del 2016. Se evaluaron 6,300 m2, encontrando un total de 64 individuos de pepinos de mar. …”
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The impact of slope and rainfall on the contaminant transport from mountainous groundwater to the lowland surface water by Xiaojun Xu, Ming Zhu, Ling Zhou, Mingxia Ma, Jingmei Heng, Li Lu, Weiyi Qu, Zhongyuan Xu

“…The mountains with lower slopes maintain a relatively higher groundwater level under steady-state rainfall conditions; for example, groundwater levels decrease from 340 m to 300 m as slope angles increase at a 1,200 mm/yr precipitation level. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF LONG-LIVED RADIONUCLIDE BODY BURDEN MONITORING IN RESIDENTS OF THE URALS REGION by M. O. Degteva, E. I. Tolstykh, K. G. Suslova, S. A. Romanov, A. V. Akleyev

“…Conclusion: Estimates of the committed effective doses due to the intake of long-lived radionuclides over the period from 1949 through 2012 for critical groups of residents of the Urals were: 300 mSv for former residents of the Muslyumovo settlement on the Techa River (90Sr contribution – 85%) and 13 mSv for residents of the Ozyorsk city (the contribution of trans-uranium radionuclides is 30%).…”
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) of animal fat (lard): Efficient sample preparation for onsite analysis and influence of sample temperature on the signal intensity and p... by M. Rashad Khan, R.K. Raja Ibrahim, M. Duralim, M.F. Omer, S.U. Haq

“…At each temperature, the plasma emissions were acquired at laser pulse energy from 50 to 300 mJ and detector gate delay (DGD) from 0.5 to 5 μs. …”
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Flood risk mitigation and anthropogenic modifications of a coastal plain in southern Italy: combined effects over the past 150 years by O. Petrucci, M. Polemio

“…The study area, at most 300 m a.s.l., is 450 km<sup>2</sup> wide and comprises 24 hydrographic basins. …”
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SNR Enhancement for Comparator-Based Ultra-Low-Sampling Φ-OTDR System Using Compressed Sensing by Zhenyu Xiao, Xiaoming Li, Haofei Zhang, Xueguang Yuan, Yang-An Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Zhengyang Li, Qi Wang, Yongqing Huang

“…Then, when the piezoelectric transducer’s driving voltage is 1 Vpp, 300 mVpp, and 100 mVpp respectively, the SNRs of the reconstructed 200 Hz sinusoidal signals are respectively enhanced by 23.7 dB, 26.1 dB, and 28.7 dB by using compressed sensing. …”
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Low Enthalpy Geothermal Systems in Structural Controlled Areas: A Sustainability Analysis of Geothermal Resource for Heating Plant (The Mondragone Case in Southern Appennines, Ital... by Marina Iorio, Alberto Carotenuto, Alfonso Corniello, Simona Di Fraia, Nicola Massarotti, Alessandro Mauro, Renato Somma, Laura Vanoli

“…A new exploration well (about 300 m deep) is considered to obtain further stratigraphic and structural information about the reservoir. …”
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Effects of dietary trace mineral levels on physiological responses, reproductive performance, litter performance, blood profiles, and milk composition in gestating sows by Hong Jun Kim, Xing Hao Jin, Sun Woo Kang, Yoo Yong Kim

“…The treatments were 100% (M1), 300% (M3), 600% (M6), and 900% (M9) of the National Research Council (NRC) Nutrient Requirements of Swine. …”
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