Newly hatched sea turtles exposed to artificially generated magnetic fields with parameters characteristic of two sites 3700 km apart, differing only in longitude, can distinguish the two apparent locations and orient appropriately.

We analyze GPS data observed before and after the 2001 Mw 7.8 Kokoxili earthquake in northern Tibet to derive the coseismic deformation field of that earthquake. Using this coseismic displacement data set and geologically mapped surface break measurements, we invert for the coseismic slip distribution along the seismogenic East Kunlun fault. Our result shows that the earthquake on average ruptu...

Aiming at the shortcomings of non-optimal fuel consumption and low accuracy Geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites in east/west station keeping (EWSK) current stage, a micro-thrust EWSK algorithm for GEO based on single-synovial surface is proposed. This has characteristics high control precision. However, when this performs switching under condition limited velocity increment, mean longitude ca...

We used mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite loci to examine the phylogeographic patterns of the most broadly distributed lizard in eastern North America, the five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus). We infer that longitudinal phylogeographic patterns in E. fasciatus are consistent with fragmentation due to refugial and post-glacial dynamics, but that deep divergences within the species imply hist...

Urbanization is one of the major forms of habitat alteration occurring at the present time. Although this is typically deleterious to biodiversity, some species flourish within these human-modified landscapes, potentially leading to negative and/or positive interactions between people and wildlife. Hence, up-to-date assessment of urban wildlife populations is important for developing appropriat...