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Earth Sciences
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Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?”
We described ten nymph specimens of an insect, Mesophthirus engeli (incertae sedis), from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, preserved together with partially damaged dinosaur feathers. Based on the ecto...
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The earliest known species of the genus Pleocoma LeConte (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Pleocomidae) from the Mesozoic of China
Pleocoma dolichophylla sp. nov. is described from the Yixian Formation. The species is of special interest, since it represents an oligotypic recent genus currently living only in extreme western...
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New species of variegated mud-loving beetles (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae) from mesozoic deposits of China
A new species of variegated mud-loving beetles, Heterocerites magnus, sp. nov., is described from the Late Tithonian-Berriasian of China (Huangbanjigou, Yixian Formation). This is a second known representative of...
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A new species of Plesioblattogryllus Huang, Nel et Petrulevičius (Grylloblattida: Plesioblattogryllidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China
A new species of grylloblattid insects, Plesioblattogryllus minor, sp. nov. (Gryllobattida: Plesioblattogryllidae), is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou locality (Inner Mongolia, China). The value of th...
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The oldest species of the genus Glaphyrus Latr. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae) from the Mesozoic of China
Glaphyrus ancestralis sp. nov. is described from the Yixian Formation (Upper Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous). The species is not only one of the earliest records of the family Glaphyridae b...
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New mesozoic diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from China
A new subfamily of predaceous diving beetles, Liadytiscinae subfam. nov., including two genera and four species, Liadytiscus gen. nov. (L. cretaceus sp. nov., L. longitibialis sp. nov., and L. latus sp. nov.) and...
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A revision of the Jurassic Stonefly Genera Dobbertiniopteryx Ansorge and Karanemoura Sinitshenkova (Insecta: Plecoptera), with the description of new species from the Daohugou locality, China
The stonefly genera Dobbertiniopteryx Ansorge and Karanemoura Sinitshenkova are revised. Based on new material from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, China, two new species, D. juracapnia sp. nov. and K. manca sp....
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Sensitivity of an ecological model to soil moisture simulations from two different hydrological models
Although advanced land surface schemes have been developed in the past decade, many biosphere models still use the simple bucket model, partly due to its efficiency when it is coupled with an CGCM model. In th...
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A modified Richards equation, its adjoint, and a new perspective on land data assimilation
Richards equation, which is the key relationship for addressing basic soil hydrological processes within the rhizosphere and constitutes the basis for multiple-layer soil hydrology models for meteorological st...
