Wetland banking yields low return on urban interests
...id that the policy of "wetland mitigation banking" redistributes wetland resources from urban areas to rural ones, potentially leaving city dwellers with fewer important environmental services such as water filtration, erosion protection and flood control. "Completely different populations are winners and losers i...Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health
...ives within the intestine and harvests, stores and redistributes energy from the diet." Because changes in the composition of this "microbial organ" may be deleterious to human health, it is important to understand how gut microbes adapt to the dynamic environment of the gut and ensure the functional stability of ...