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Beyond individual, population, and community: Considering information, cell number, and energy flux as fundamental dimensions of life across scales 超越个体、种群和群落：将信息、细胞数量和能量通量视为跨尺度生命的基本维度

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2023.16.3.n

John DeLong, Mary I. O'Connor, Van Savage, Thomas Luhring, C-Elisa Schaum, Mike Sears

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Eccrine Hydration Eccrine Hydration

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2023.16.2.n

Gareth Morgan

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Screen adaptation theory for humans 人类屏幕适应理论

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2022-05-28 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2022.15.2.e

C. Lortie

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Investing in publication: Researchers as "savage capitalists" 投资出版:研究人员是“野蛮资本家”

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2021.14.4.c

Victor Brun

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Transformative choices towards a sustainable academic publishing system 面向可持续学术出版系统的变革选择

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2021.14.3.f

Mohsen Kayal, Jane Ballard, E. Kayal

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How I became one of the world's top experts on fire research: despite all, when preparation meets opportunity, truth in science emerges 我是如何成为世界顶级火灾研究专家之一的:尽管如此，当准备遇到机会时，科学的真理就会浮现

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2021.14.5.e

B. Lamont

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The Little Prince is an ecologist 小王子是一位生态学家

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2021-10-24 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2021.14.2.e

C. Lortie

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Phylogeny can inform animal model development for both inherited and induced conditions: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) 系统发育可以为遗传性和诱导性疾病的动物模型发育提供信息:杜氏肌营养不良症(DMD)和胎儿酒精谱系障碍(FASD)。

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2021-08-03 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2021.14.1.n

Mason B. Meers, N. Demers, Audra Hewett, Dakota Sorrelle

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A uniquely fire creature, a uniquely fire planet 独特的火生物，独特的火星球

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2020.13.5.c

S. Pyne

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The third dimension: How fire-related research can advance ecology and evolutionary biology 第三个维度：火灾相关研究如何推进生态学和进化生物学

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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution Pub Date : 2020-12-21 DOI: 10.24908/iee.2020.13.4.c

B. Lamont, Tianhua He

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