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Effects of Growing Conditions and Source Habitat on Plant Traits and Functional Group Definition

1. Plant functional groups are used to describe patterns of community organization. However, they are defined either by suites of correlated traits or by species groupings, and the responses of these ...
Purdue University

Organic Chemistry Functional Group Playing Cards

To help students learn to recognize common organic functional groups when given chemical formulas and names, students can use an organic chemistry functional group playing card deck to play any card ...
C&EN

Functional group not directly on metal changes its behavior

The electronic sphere of influence in transition metals is bigger than chemists thought. On Wednesday at the ACS Fall 2022 meeting in the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, postdoctoral researcher Chris ...
C&EN

Adding two functional groups to an aliphatic alcohol in one shot

Aliphatic alcohols are cheap, widely available, and very stable building blocks for chemical synthesis and drug discovery. Now, a team of chemists has found a way to add functional groups to them in ...
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Different functional feeding groups of mangrove soil molluscs invoke unique co-occurrence patterns in response to a climate extreme

Aim: Due to differences in community functional traits and composition, the response of communities to environmental changes can be variable, and thus an understanding of the mechanisms underlying ...