HOW MUCH VARIATION IN LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY CAN CLIMATE OSCILLATION MODES EXPLAIN AT THE SCALE OF MOUNTAIN PASTURES IN KYRGYZSTAN?

How much variation in land surface phenology can climate oscillation modes explain at the scale of mountain pastures in Kyrgyzstan?

Climate oscillation modes can shape weather across the globe due to atmospheric teleconnections.We built on the findings of a recent study to assess whether the impacts of teleconnections are detectable and significant in the early season dynamics of highland pastures across five rayons in Kyrgyzstan.Specifically, since land surface phenology (LSP)

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The diversity and abundance of bacterial and fungal communities in the rhizosphere of Cathaya argyrophylla are affected by soil physicochemical properties

Cathaya argyrophylla is an ancient Pinaceae species endemic to China that is listed on the IUCN Red List.Although C.argyrophylla is an ectomycorrhizal plant, the relationship between its rhizospheric soil microbial community and soil properties related to the natural habitat remains unknown.High-throughput sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes and

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Effective cataract surgical coverage: An indicator for measuring quality-of-care in the context of Universal Health Coverage.

OBJECTIVE:To define and demonstrate effective cataract surgical coverage (eCSC), a candidate UHC indicator that combines a coverage measure (cataract surgical coverage, CSC) with quality (post-operative visual outcome).METHODS:All Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) surveys with datasets on the online RAAB Repository on April 1 2016 were

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Guidelines for information about therapy experiments: a proposal on best practice for recording experimental data on cancer therapy

Abstract Background Biology, biomedicine and healthcare have become data-driven enterprises, where scientists and clinicians need to generate, access, validate, interpret and integrate different kinds of experimental and patient-related data.Thus, recording and reporting Adaptive Cutlery of data in a systematic and unambiguous fashion is crucial to

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