Microvascular significance of TGF-β axis activation in COVID-19 by Lauren M. Arguinchona, Caterina Zagona-Prizio, Megan E. Joyce, Edward D. Chan, Edward D. Chan, Edward D. Chan, James P. Maloney

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Beachrock Formation Mechanism Using Multiproxy Experimental Data from Natural and Artificial Beachrocks: Insights for a Potential Soft Engineering Method by Giannis Saitis, Anna Karkani, Eleni Koutsopoulou, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Satoru Kawasaki, Niki Evelpidou

“…Artificial beachrocks can share the same properties of a natural beachrock and can contribute positively to marine biodiversity as a natural rocky habitat.…”
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Land cover changes and comparison of current landscape metrics in a region of the Central Andes affected by population migration by Marco Aurelio Arizapana-Almonacid, Victor Henry Pariona-Antonio, Italo Castañeda-Tinco, Julio Cesar Ascención Mendoza, Edgar Gutiérrez Gómez, Paolo Ramoni-Perazzi

“…However, areas with degraded soils, rocky outcrops, and forest plantations have expanded. …”
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Comparing Geography and Severity of Managed Wildfires in California and the Southwest USA before and after the Implementation of the 2009 Policy Guidance by Jose M. Iniguez, Alexander M. Evans, Sepideh Dadashi, Jesse D. Young, Marc D. Meyer, Andrea E. Thode, Shaula J. Hedwall, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Stephen D. Fillmore, Rachel Bean

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Estructura trófica de la asociación de peces intermareales de la costa rocosa del norte de Chile by C. Viviana Berrios, F. Mauricio Vargas

“…Finally, the increase of fish species towards lower latitudes and the increase of herbivory and omnivory levels in the rocky intertidal shore were analyzed…”
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Habitat selection and space use of Upland Sandpipers at nonbreeding grounds by Matilde Alfaro, Luciano Liguori, Brett K. Sandercock, Mauro Berazategui, Matías Arim

“…Foraging Upland Sandpipers primarily selected two types of native grasslands associated with shallow, rocky soils. The vegetation configuration of disturbed pastures were open landscapes that were good for detection of arthropod prey but offered little cover for avoidance of predators. …”
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Improving the coastal record of tsunamis in the ESI-07 scale: Tsunami Environmental Effects Scale (TEE-16 scale) by J. LARIO, T. BARDAJÍ, P.G. SILVA, C. ZAZO, J.L. GOY

“…The TEE-16 scale integrates the description and quantification of the potential sedimentary and erosional features (beach scours, transported boulders and classical tsunamites) derived from different tsunami events at diverse coastal environments (e.g. beaches, estuaries, rocky cliffs,). This new approach represents an innovative advance in relation to the tsunami descriptions provided by the ESI-07 scale, and allows the full application of the proposed scale in paleoseismological studies. …”
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Eco-engineered rock pools: a concrete solution to biodiversity loss and urban sprawl in the marine environment by Louise B Firth, Keith A Browne, Antony M Knights, Stephen J Hawkins, Róisín Nash

“…In coastal habitats artificial structures typically support lower biodiversity and can support greater numbers of non-native and opportunistic species than natural rocky reefs. Eco-engineering experiments are typically trialed to succeed; but arguably as much is learnt from failure than from success. …”
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“Wherever I Go, I Have It Inside of Me”: Indigenous Cultural Dance Narratives as Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention in an Urban Danza Mexica Community by Angela R. Fernandez, Ramona E. Beltrán

“…This study explores the role of participation in cultural dance in generating narratives of prevention and health promotion among a sample of MAIs from an Urban Danza Mexica Community (UDMC), framed within a decolonizing narratives of health (DNOH) model.MethodsThis secondary data analysis (n = 9) is drawn from a qualitative AOD and HIV health needs assessment of UDMC living in the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountain West (n = 21). This study uses a community-based participatory research approach and employs narrative, Indigenized methods to analyze in-depth interviews from adult cisgender females (n = 5) and males (n = 4). …”
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Assessment of health risks posed by toxicological elements of the food chain in a typical high geologic background by Zhaoqi Cai, Bozhi Ren, Qing Xie, Xinping Deng, Wei Yin, Luyuan Chen

“…Our results showed that Cr, Cd, Pb, Hg, and Se were exceeded in agricultural soils, with Hg and Se levels severely exceeding the standard Se was most bioconcentrated in soybean (BCF = 0.5855), followed by Cd (BCF = 0.5603) and Se (BCF = 0.3800) in peanut and Se (BCF = 0.4255) in rape, and the BCFs of all the BCF of crops were less than 1, and the enrichment of these six elements in the food chain did not reach a dangerous level; the overall spatial distribution of radioactive contamination was centered on the black rocky geologic body; and the contamination and absorption levels of foods in the study area were: leafy vegetables (oilseed rape) > legumes (soybeans and peanuts) > stem vegetables (ginger) > fruit vegetables (cucumber). …”
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Ordinary kriging vs inverse distance weighting: spatial interpolation of the sessile community of Madagascar reef, Gulf of Mexico by Salvador Zarco-Perello, Nuno Simões

“…The deeper sandy environments of the leeward and windward regions of Madagascar reef were dominated by macroalgae and seconded by octocorals. However, the shallow rocky environments of the reef crest had the highest richness of habitat-forming groups of organisms; here, we registered high abundances of octocorals and macroalgae, with sponges, Millepora alcicornis and zoantharians dominating in some patches, creating high levels of habitat heterogeneity. …”
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Phytochemical analysis and biological investigation of Cheilanthes tenuifolia (Burm.f.) Swartz by Umme Habiba Juhi, Heba A. S. El-Nashar, Abdullah Al Faruq, Md. Shimul Bhuia, Md. Shimul Bhuia, Irin Sultana, Syedul Alam, Farah Abuyousef, Na’il Saleh, Mohamed El-Shazly, Muhammad Torequl Islam, Muhammad Torequl Islam, Muhammad Torequl Islam

“…Introduction:Cheilanthes tenuifolia is an evergreen ornamental small fern, belonging to the family Pteridaceae, that grows in warm and rocky regions worldwide. Many species of Cheilanthes genus are evidently endowed with important phytochemicals and bioactivities. …”
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Spatial Bayesian models project shifts in suitable habitat for Pacific Northwest tree species under climate change by Karin Kralicek, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Tara M. Barrett, Hailemariam Temesgen

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Characterization of Tailings Dams by Electrical Geophysical Methods (ERT, IP): Federico Mine (La Carolina, Southeastern Spain) by Julián Martínez, Rosendo Mendoza, Javier Rey, Senén Sandoval, M. Carmen Hidalgo

“…Old flotation sludge has resistivity values that range between 1 and 100 Ωm (i.e., wet waste 1–30 Ωm, dry waste 30–100 Ωm), while phyllites in the rocky substrate have resistivities larger than 200 Ωm and can even reach va-lues greater than 1000 Ωm. …”
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Diversity of lithophytic moss species in karst regions in response to elevation gradients. by Yalin Jin, Xiurong Wang

“…The findings can enrich the theory of the distribution pattern of lithophytic moss species diversity at distinct elevation gradients in karst regions, and serve a scientific and reasonable reference for restoring rocky desertification and protecting biodiversity there.…”
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Depression in pregnant Hispanic women: Risk factors, pregnancy outcomes and plasma cytokines by Maureen E. Groer, Kelley Baumgartel, Cary Springer, Tina Mutka, Teodor T. Postolache

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Diversity and distribution of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Euglossini) in Belize by Kevin M. O’Neill, Ruth P. O’Neill, Casey M. Delphia, Laura A. Burkle, Justin B. Runyon

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Analysis on the Difference of Reconstructed Soil Moisture Content in a Grassland Open-Pit Mining Area of China by Lingling Wang, Yange Li, Jianjun Zhang, Mingjie Qian, Yingui Cao

“…The study of coal gangue, fly ash and rocky soil stripping as topsoil substitute materials with their different ratios on reconstructed soil provides support for the reclamation work in topsoil scarce mines and provides technical reference for the ecological restoration project of grassland open-pit mines in the same climate zone.…”
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Simulating the distribution of beached litter on the northwest coast of Scotland by Nicole L. Allison, Andrew Dale, William R. Turrell, Dmitry Aleynik, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy

“…Three coastal boundary conditions were used to compare transport paths with or without particle beach resuspension, and for the resuspending cases, with or without a distinction between coastal type (retentive beaches versus reflective rocky coasts). Of the total released particles, the percentage that beached within the model sub-area, after a 1-year model run, ranged between 45.7% and 88.3% depending on the coastal boundary condition. …”
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Changes in ozone and precursors during two aged wildfire smoke events in the Colorado Front Range in summer 2015 by J. Lindaas, D. K. Farmer, I. B. Pollack, I. B. Pollack, A. Abeleira, F. Flocke, R. Roscioli, S. Herndon, E. V. Fischer

“…Enhancements in O₃ during the August smoke-impacted period were also observed at two long-term monitoring sites in Colorado: Rocky Mountain National Park and the Arapahoe National Wildlife Refuge near Walden, CO. …”
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