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A “demand and supply” approach to monitoring habitat and population changes of migratory birds 监测候鸟栖息地和种群变化的“需求和供应”方法
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-12 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70035
Tong Mu, Mo A Verhoeven, Micha V Jackson, Theunis Piersma, Richard A Fuller, David S Wilcove
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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI 人工智能时代的高山思维
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70036
Gavin M Jones
{"title":"Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI","authors":"Gavin M Jones","doi":"10.1002/fee.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70036","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has nearly completed its infiltration within the tech spaces in our lives. Nowadays, you can seldom find an app on your smartphone or a piece of software on your computer that is not “AI-enabled”, offering shortcuts and summaries to save us time. Save me time, you say? Sign me up! As modern scientists, we find our time burdened with many tasks we’d like to avoid, which perhaps AI could take off our plates. That overdue annual report? Check. That cover letter to the Editor? Sure. Throughout history, advances in technology have created efficiencies in science. Why should GenAI be any different? After all, I’d wager that no one still ventures on foot into the stacks of our respective university libraries to find hard copies of a journal to check out or photocopy. Just type keywords into your browser's search bar and (with the proper access) have a digital version of the desired article saved to your computer in seconds. Technology tends to make our lives easier and our work more efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GenAI is different because it mimics one of our most deeply human characteristics: our ability to think about complex ideas. Until recently, any journal article you read would represent the outcome of months or years of deep, challenging thought by the humans on the other side of the page, painstakingly transcribed into coherent prose for your consumption. No more. Now, any prospective author can enter a prompt in one of the many commercial large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, yielding a series of words and paragraphs that resemble what used to only be possible with substantial human intellectual labor. At this point some readers might push back, arguing “sure, but the models’ ideas and writing are not actually &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt;”. I agree, but I also expect these models will improve, while our ability to detect GenAI's digital fingerprints will diminish, over time. A day will come when there are no longer obvious “tells” that something has been written with GenAI.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do we lose by outsourcing our writing to GenAI? Tragically, much. I found writing to be one of the most frustrating and difficult parts of my graduate training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I remember vividly the first round of written feedback I received from my graduate advisor—pages upon pages almost entirely marked in red tracked changes. And it was well-deserved: my writing was bad! But over many months and years, I kept writing, and I learned not only how to write better, but also how to think. I’ve realized that now, writing &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; how I think best: often, my thoughts only crystallize once I try to put words on the page and then revise those words repeatedly. My own struggles to write effectively provided the necessary friction to rewire the way I thought about ecological concepts, about how to present arguments logically, and about how to draw connections between disparate ideas or fields—all of which have enr","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Insights on global rangeland ecosystem services shaped by grazing and fertilization 放牧和施肥对全球牧场生态系统服务的影响
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70022
Laura Yahdjian, Sofía Campana, Pedro M Tognetti, Juan Alberti, Pamela Graff, Cecilia Molina, Elizabeth T Borer, Eric W Seabloom, Suzanne M Prober, Andrew S MacDougall, Anita C Risch, Jodi N Price, Sally A Power, Isabel C Barrio, Erika Hersch-Green, Philip A Fay, Sumanta Bagchi, Jonathan D Bakker, Dana Blumenthal, Elizabeth H Boughton, Cynthia S Brown, Miguel N Bugalho, Marc Cadotte, Maria C Caldeira, Jane A Catford, Clinton Carbutt, Qingqing Chen, Scott L Collins, Thomas W Crowther, Carla D’Antonio, Christopher R Dickman, Mary E DuPre, Kenneth J Elgersma, Anu Eskelinen, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Anke Jentsch, Johannes MH Knops, Jason P Martina, Rebecca L McCulley, Carly J Stevens, Lauri Laanisto, Lydia R O’Halloran, Pablo L Peri, Petr Macek, Nicholas G Smith, Grégory Sonnier, Ciska GF Veen, Risto Virtanen
{"title":"Insights on global rangeland ecosystem services shaped by grazing and fertilization","authors":"Laura Yahdjian,&nbsp;Sofía Campana,&nbsp;Pedro M Tognetti,&nbsp;Juan Alberti,&nbsp;Pamela Graff,&nbsp;Cecilia Molina,&nbsp;Elizabeth T Borer,&nbsp;Eric W Seabloom,&nbsp;Suzanne M Prober,&nbsp;Andrew S MacDougall,&nbsp;Anita C Risch,&nbsp;Jodi N Price,&nbsp;Sally A Power,&nbsp;Isabel C Barrio,&nbsp;Erika Hersch-Green,&nbsp;Philip A Fay,&nbsp;Sumanta Bagchi,&nbsp;Jonathan D Bakker,&nbsp;Dana Blumenthal,&nbsp;Elizabeth H Boughton,&nbsp;Cynthia S Brown,&nbsp;Miguel N Bugalho,&nbsp;Marc Cadotte,&nbsp;Maria C Caldeira,&nbsp;Jane A Catford,&nbsp;Clinton Carbutt,&nbsp;Qingqing Chen,&nbsp;Scott L Collins,&nbsp;Thomas W Crowther,&nbsp;Carla D’Antonio,&nbsp;Christopher R Dickman,&nbsp;Mary E DuPre,&nbsp;Kenneth J Elgersma,&nbsp;Anu Eskelinen,&nbsp;Nicole Hagenah,&nbsp;Yann Hautier,&nbsp;Anke Jentsch,&nbsp;Johannes MH Knops,&nbsp;Jason P Martina,&nbsp;Rebecca L McCulley,&nbsp;Carly J Stevens,&nbsp;Lauri Laanisto,&nbsp;Lydia R O’Halloran,&nbsp;Pablo L Peri,&nbsp;Petr Macek,&nbsp;Nicholas G Smith,&nbsp;Grégory Sonnier,&nbsp;Ciska GF Veen,&nbsp;Risto Virtanen","doi":"10.1002/fee.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rangelands are crucial to human well-being, but their ability to provide ecosystem services is threatened. We (1) quantified key ecosystem services provided by rangelands, (2) assessed short- and long-term impacts of fertilization (nutrient addition) and the exclusion of large grazing herbivores with fences (herbivore exclusion) on services, and (3) identified synergies and trade-offs among services. We measured indicators of ecosystem services and plant diversity at 79 sites across six continents in the global Nutrient Network. Short-term herbivore exclusion increased forage quantity and soil fertility, but longer-term herbivore exclusion decreased both along with plant richness and pollination. Nutrient addition improved forage provisioning, soil stability, climate regulation, and control of soil erosion but lowered plant diversity and impeded delivery of related services, especially after prolonged application. We found synergies between plant diversity and pollination, as well as between soil fertility, soil stability, and climate regulation. Trade-offs between forage stability and quality persisted after nutrient addition but disappeared with herbivore exclusion. Our results suggest that alternative management actions may sustain livestock production while maintaining rangeland ecosystem services.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Amphibians in China: over 250 years of species discoveries and ongoing challenges 中国的两栖动物:250多年的物种发现和持续的挑战
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-03-02 Epub Date: 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70030
Haoxian Lin, Xiaoyi Wang, Junhua Hu
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A code of ethics for peer reviewers 同行审稿人的道德准则
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-03-02 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70032
Adrian Treves, Allison R Fisher
{"title":"A code of ethics for peer reviewers","authors":"Adrian Treves,&nbsp;Allison R Fisher","doi":"10.1002/fee.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70032","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Peer review of research findings has changed repeatedly since 1832, when the Royal Society formalized written refereeing by experts (&lt;i&gt;Hist J&lt;/i&gt; 2018). Calls for the reform of peer review have changed the system, including calls from researchers concerned with their peers’ impartiality or ability to catch errors or fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here, we address a narrow set of issues relating to the conduct of peer reviewers toward not only their editors but also the authors whose work they are reviewing. An explicit code of ethics may be needed for the vast and far-flung research community, given the logistical impossibility of convening all members to discuss conduct and given the confidentiality of single- and double-blind reviews. Ethics seem particularly important; if overlooked during review, misconduct can corrupt the research-based evidence demanded by public policy and threaten the entire research endeavor. The problem may be even more acute now, given the global rise in anti-intellectualism, including mistrust of experts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because high-quality independent review is essential to advance knowledge, our recommendations for a code of ethics for reviewers follow the hallmark principles of good science—&lt;i&gt;transparency&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;independence&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;falsifiability&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;reproducibility&lt;/i&gt;—as well as recent calls for greater &lt;i&gt;diversity&lt;/i&gt; in the scientific community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Transparency&lt;/i&gt; in peer review is fundamental to each step. Transparency about independence should enhance confidence that the review was not distorted by rivalries, collaborations, or other competing interests. Just as most statistical tests require independence of samples, the reliability of findings requires &lt;i&gt;independence&lt;/i&gt; between peers during review. Hence, reviewers should disclose all financial and non-financial potentially competing interests related to the authors (if identifiable), methods, or findings of articles they review. We cannot be the judges of our own partiality. Non-financial interests that compete with our ability to fairly and scientifically evaluate findings are especially hard for us to see in ourselves, because they relate to ideology, personal rivalry/friendship, unconscious bias, etc. Transparency also requires reviewers to disclose when they are unqualified to address any portion of a manuscript or would like a specialist to examine the relevant passages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, a reviewer who challenges a claim made by authors must have (and reveal) the evidence behind their challenge. The challenge must be &lt;i&gt;falsifiable&lt;/i&gt; (open to disproof) and the evidence must be &lt;i&gt;reproducible&lt;/i&gt;. A common breach of this ethical code is for reviewers to subtly undermine the authors’ credibility not with evidence but rather with assertions such as “In my experience…” and vague citations to unspecified or non-peer-reviewed sources. Such assertions and citations are unscientific because they cannot be falsified. The need for falsifiable, reproducible evide","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Current nursery offerings highlight the potential to expand native plant sales 目前的苗圃产品突出了扩大本地植物销售的潜力
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-03-02 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70027
Matthew E Fertakos, Suvi Birch, Trista Dearstyne, Tristan Fehr, Jenica M Allen, Bethany A Bradley
{"title":"Current nursery offerings highlight the potential to expand native plant sales","authors":"Matthew E Fertakos,&nbsp;Suvi Birch,&nbsp;Trista Dearstyne,&nbsp;Tristan Fehr,&nbsp;Jenica M Allen,&nbsp;Bethany A Bradley","doi":"10.1002/fee.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Non-native ornamental plants provide less support for ecosystems as compared to their native counterparts, serve as vectors for harmful pests, and can become invasive. To reduce ecological harm, researchers and practitioners have called for increased supply of native ornamental plants. However, it is unclear whether commercial plant nurseries are embracing calls to expand native plant offerings. Here, we analyzed inventories from 339 nurseries in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US. We found 3322 species sold across 256 conventional and 83 native specialty nurseries. Conventional nurseries sold primarily non-native species, including 283 plants recognized as invasive in the US. Native specialty nurseries offered 1176 species native to Eastern Forest ecoregions, 31% of which were unavailable at conventional nurseries. Conventional nurseries were more than twice as likely to sell native cultivars (74.6% of native taxa offerings) than native specialty nurseries (31.8%). Our synthesis supports the replacement of problematic non-native species with native alternatives, improving ecosystem health in human-dominated areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Movement decisions reflect compromised statewide connectivity for mountain lions in California 运动决定反映了加州山狮在全州范围内的连通性受到损害
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-03-02 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70020
Kyle D Dougherty, Justin A Dellinger, Bogdan Cristescu, Daniel J Gammons, David K Garcelon, J Mark Higley, Phillip Johnston, Quinton E Martins, John F Randolph, Seth PD Riley, Jeff A Sikich, Trish Smith, Thomas R Stephenson, T Winston Vickers, Greta M Wengert, Christopher C Wilmers, Heiko U Wittmer, John F Benson
{"title":"Movement decisions reflect compromised statewide connectivity for mountain lions in California","authors":"Kyle D Dougherty,&nbsp;Justin A Dellinger,&nbsp;Bogdan Cristescu,&nbsp;Daniel J Gammons,&nbsp;David K Garcelon,&nbsp;J Mark Higley,&nbsp;Phillip Johnston,&nbsp;Quinton E Martins,&nbsp;John F Randolph,&nbsp;Seth PD Riley,&nbsp;Jeff A Sikich,&nbsp;Trish Smith,&nbsp;Thomas R Stephenson,&nbsp;T Winston Vickers,&nbsp;Greta M Wengert,&nbsp;Christopher C Wilmers,&nbsp;Heiko U Wittmer,&nbsp;John F Benson","doi":"10.1002/fee.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human-induced habitat fragmentation threatens connectivity for populations of wide-ranging species by compromising long-distance dispersal. We evaluated movement-based resource selection of dispersing mountain lions (<i>Puma concolor</i>) to identify specific landscape conditions influencing movement decisions and connectivity between populations across the US state of California. Our results elucidate how anthropogenic features inhibit dispersal at the statewide scale, as mountain lions avoided development more strongly as both the area of and building density within developed patches increased. Furthermore, dispersing mountain lions strongly avoided crossing roadways but exhibited relaxed avoidance in areas where vegetative cover was present on both sides of the road. Importantly, mountain lions selected even relatively small patches of natural habitat, which may function as stepping-stones promoting movement through otherwise unsuitable habitat. We provide empirical evidence linking genetic structure suggestive of reduced connectivity to underlying behavioral mechanisms. Understanding behavior during dispersal is fundamental to conserving connectivity between and viability of populations persisting within fragmented landscapes—and to facilitate recolonization of historical ranges.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Embracing a dynamic view of nature for biodiversity conservation 秉持动态的自然观,保护生物多样性
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-03-02 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70026
Gavin M Jones, Juli G Pausas
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Who’s afraid of strict protection? 谁怕严密的保护?
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-03-02 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70025
Edoardo Chiti, Gianluca Piovesan
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Walking the land with property owners 和业主一起走在土地上
IF 7.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1002/fee.70023
Tom A Langen, Catherine Benson, Rick Welsh
{"title":"Walking the land with property owners","authors":"Tom A Langen,&nbsp;Catherine Benson,&nbsp;Rick Welsh","doi":"10.1002/fee.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70023","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;From the landowner’s house, we walked across a hayfield to the small wetland. At the edge of the swamp, the landowner pointed out where the beaver had been active, where he had flushed a woodcock, and where he had harvested a deer. After explaining how he managed its water levels, he asked for our opinion—did his restored wetland really have conservation value? What could he do to make it even more valuable as a natural resource?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We were part of a team investigating the ecological value of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), a public–private partnership—currently integrated into the Agency’s Agricultural Conservation Easement Program—that restores wetlands on private property where they had been lost due to agriculture, and protects them under permanent conservation easements. During that site visit and others like it, we inventoried biodiversity, assessed water quality, and documented hydrology and landscape context to evaluate whether the restored wetlands had ecological composition and functions similar to their original counterparts. We also surveyed and interviewed landowners, to find out why they decided initially to participate in the WRP, and whether they were now satisfied with the outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Residents in the St. Lawrence River valley of New York State, like many rural areas in the US, are generally opposed to private-property land use regulation and to acquisition of private land by the government for conservation. Nevertheless, public–private conservation programs are popular, with over 150 landowners participating in the WRP within this region alone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We expected that landowners would focus on federal and state tax incentives as motives to participate; for example, New York State has a property tax rebate for conservation easements. To our surprise, few landowners were aware of such incentives. Instead, they talked about the enjoyment received in walking the land with their dogs, hunting on it, and spotting wildlife with their grandchildren. They spoke about the heritage value of wetland restoration—how they wanted to conserve some nature so that their descendants would enjoy it, too. We asked about ecosystem services. While the term was unfamiliar to them, the landowners immediately grasped the concept and were pleased that what they had done might provide such services in their community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As we sat around participants’ kitchen tables, we listened to their stories—how they came to live on the property and what owning land meant to them. Most of the landowners who initiated the public–private partnership were at retirement age. They belonged to conservation or sportsman organizations. Many were from the region, though a number had moved away for their careers and had returned after retirement. Some had been “back-to-landers” who had arrived in the early 1970s to subsistence farm, while others were the inheritors of multi-generational family farms, while still others","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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