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University of the Aegean
Education•Mytilene, Greece•
About: University of the Aegean is a education organization based out in Mytilene, Greece. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 2818 authors who have published 8100 publications receiving 179275 citations. The organization is also known as: UAEG.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the performance of a GAC postfilter-adsorber for the removal from the drinking water of Athens, Greece, of the two main groups of chlorination byproducts, trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs), as well as of dissolved organic carbon (DOC).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess land-use changes and the legacies that they have imprinted on the forest structure of Quercus macrolepis and accompanying woodlands on Lesvos Island, Greece.
Abstract: Eastern Mediterranean silvopastoral oak wood- lands have been greatly damaged through forest conversion, illegal lumbering, overgrazing, and forest fires. The aim of this study was to assess land-use changes and the legacies that they have imprinted on the forest structure of Quercus macrolepis and accompanying Quercus pubescens and Quercus cerris woodlands on Lesvos Island, Greece. The size structures of adult oak populations were analyzed as indicators of long-term oak regeneration, while short-term recruitment was determined by counting oak seedlings and saplings. The size structure of the adult Q. macrolepis pop- ulation was similar to the inverse J-shaped distribution typ- ical for natural Mediterranean oak forests, indicating continuous recruitment with a constant mortality rate of mature individuals. Seedling and sapling densities were highly variable, but generally low in relation to adult oak densities. Recruitment of oak seedlings and saplings was positively related to determinants such as forest cover, adult oak density and basal area, woody plant richness, and litter cover. Both seedling and sapling occurrence were negatively associated with dung frequency, which suggests that sheep grazing imposes a barrier to oak recruitment. The study outlines a comprehensive land-use transition from the 1950 to 1970s, during which a complex and multifunctional ag- rosilvopastoral land-use system was simplified to an inten- sive grazing system. The discrepancy between the successful long-term regeneration and the less successful short-term recruitment of oaks illustrates that intensified livestock grazing has been a major driver of vegetation change. Grazing impact is likely to interact with increasing drought conditions, which may trigger a negative feedback cycle that undermines the capacity of woodlands to sustain ecosystem services.
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TL;DR: The results of a search for vector-like top quarks using events with exactly one lepton, at least four jets, and large missing transverse momentum are reported in this paper.
Abstract: The results of a search for vector-like top quarks using events with exactly one lepton, at least four jets, and large missing transverse momentum are reported The search is optimised for pair pro
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the ZEUS detector to study diffractive DIS and its diffractive component at HERA with an integrated luminosity of 4.2 pb −1, showing that the ratio of diffractive to total cross section is constant as a function of energy W (37-245 GeV), photon virtuality Q2 (2.2-80 GeV2) and mass M X (0.28-35 GeV).
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Washington State University1, University of Minnesota2, California Polytechnic State University3, West Chester University of Pennsylvania4, Monash University5, University of Montpellier6, Michigan State University7, University of Tennessee8, Ohio State University9, University of Lausanne10, Stellenbosch University11, University of the Aegean12, University of San Francisco13, University of Granada14, University of Calgary15, Florida State University16, University of Illinois at Chicago17
TL;DR: Isle floras around the world reflect the role of a key reproductive trait in filtering potential colonizing species in these three widely distributed flowering plant families, and demonstrate that the presence or absence of self-incompatibility has strong explanatory power for plant geographical patterns.
Abstract: Because establishing a new population often depends critically on finding mates, individuals capable of uniparental reproduction may have a colonization advantage. Accordingly, there should be an over-representation of colonizing species in which individuals can reproduce without a mate, particularly in isolated locales such as oceanic islands. Despite the intuitive appeal of this colonization filter hypothesis (known as Baker's law), more than six decades of analyses have yielded mixed findings. We assembled a dataset of island and mainland plant breeding systems, focusing on the presence or absence of self-incompatibility. Because this trait enforces outcrossing and is unlikely to re-evolve on short timescales if it is lost, breeding system is especially likely to reflect the colonization filter. We found significantly more self-compatible species on islands than mainlands across a sample of > 1500 species from three widely distributed flowering plant families (Asteraceae, Brassicaceae and Solanaceae). Overall, 66% of island species were self-compatible, compared with 41% of mainland species. Our results demonstrate that the presence or absence of self-incompatibility has strong explanatory power for plant geographical patterns. Island floras around the world thus reflect the role of a key reproductive trait in filtering potential colonizing species in these three plant families.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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B. G. Pope | 125 | 926 | 75215 |
C. Guicheney | 88 | 271 | 37715 |
Konstantinos Papageorgiou | 83 | 365 | 22316 |
Ioannis Gkialas | 83 | 316 | 21400 |
Konstantinos Papageorgiou | 71 | 280 | 17500 |
Th. D. Papadopoulou | 70 | 272 | 32541 |
Ioannis Gkialas | 70 | 268 | 16867 |
Mikael Johansson | 65 | 526 | 18329 |
Penelope Vounatsou | 63 | 242 | 11944 |
Nikolaos S. Thomaidis | 57 | 275 | 10388 |
Camilla Di Donato | 57 | 185 | 9481 |
Nicholas Apergis | 56 | 445 | 14876 |
Polychronis C Tzedakis | 54 | 106 | 8982 |
Stelios Katsanevakis | 47 | 183 | 7680 |
Diomidis Spinellis | 45 | 314 | 7819 |