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Jingtian Yang, Pan Jiang, Yi Huang, Yulin Yang, Rulin Wang, Yuxia Yang
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Babar Zahoor, Xuehua Liu, Melissa Songer
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Anderson A. Eduardo, Alexandre Liparini, Pablo A. Martinez, Sidney F. Gouveia, Pablo Riul
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Ting Li, Yuxia Yang, Yihe Wang, Shiliang Xu, Xuchen Fan, Yanli Xia, Rulin Wang
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Yuyang Xian, Yongquan Lu, Guilin Liu
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Summary: In addition to being important for biologists, species distributions also have practical uses for naturalists, curious citizens, and fields like conservation planning and medical intervention. Venomous snakes, with their global distribution and medical significance, particularly highlight the importance of accurate information. To address the need for updated fine-scale distributions, researchers have created VenomMaps, a database and web application that provides updated distribution maps and species distribution models for all New World pitvipers.
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Environmental Sciences
Jing Guo, Longhui Lu, Yingying Dong, Wenjiang Huang, Bing Zhang, Bobo Du, Chao Ding, Huichun Ye, Kun Wang, Yanru Huang, Zhuoqing Hao, Mingxian Zhao, Ning Wang
Summary: This study focused on the grasshopper potential habitat (GPH) in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. By using the MaxEnt model and multisource remote sensing data, the distribution and spatiotemporal characteristics of GPH in meadow and typical steppes were analyzed. The results indicated that suitable areas for grasshoppers were mainly located in the southern part of the meadow steppe and the eastern and southern parts of the typical steppe.
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Environmental Sciences
Xinyu Zhang, Yaxin Yuan, Zequn Zhu, Qingshan Ma, Hongyan Yu, Meng Li, Jianhai Ma, Shuhua Yi, Xiongzhao He, Yi Sun
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Xin Lu, Ruoyan Jiang, Guangfu Zhang
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