A recent study showed that a critically endangered migratory predator species, the Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus, rapidly expanded northwards in northeast Atlantic waters after the ...mid-1990s. As a significant positive correlation was found between the long-term changes in the abundance of this seabird and sea temperature around the British Isles, it was hypothesized that the link between the biogeographic shift and temperature occurred through the food web. Here, we test this conjecture and reveal concomitant changes in a regional index of sea temperature, plankton (total calanoid copepod), fish prey (anchovy and sardine) and the Balearic shearwater for the period 1980–2003. All three trophic levels exhibit a significant shift detected between 1994 and 1996. Our findings therefore support the assertion of both a direct and an indirect effect of climate change on the spatial distribution of post-breeding Balearic shearwater through a trophic cascade.
We present evidence for the exotic charged charmoniumlike state Zc±(3900) decaying to J/ψπ± in semi-inclusive weak decays of b-flavored hadrons. The signal is correlated with a parent J/ψπ+π− system ...in the invariant-mass range 4.2–4.7 GeV that would include the exotic structure Y(4260). The study is based on 10.4 fb−1 of pp¯ collision data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.
La végétation de 12 cours d'eau répartis sur le territoire français a été étudiée selon le protocole standardisé d'échantillonnage «Milieu Et Végétaux aquatiques fixés» (M.E.V.) pour tester ce ...procotole. Le traitement des données par rivière puis pour l'ensemble des séquences étudiées permet d'établir des typologies floristiques. De façon préliminaire, le déterminisme de distribution des phytocénoses est envisagé. Les différences majeures s'expriment à l'amont en fonction de la géologie et de la minéralisation, des conditions d'écoulement et d'ombrage. Une homogénéisation s'effectue vers l'aval, à la faveur de l'eutrophisation et de l'accroissement des dimensions du cours d'eau. La dimension éco-régionale s'exprime d'abord au niveau de la géologie, et secondairement en fonction du climat (atlanticité) et des différences entre rivières de plaine et de piémont. Les résultats sont discutés en vue d'une amélioration du protocole et de la possibilité d'application de la notion de phytocénoses de référence.
The vegetation of 12 French rivers was studied to test the standardized protocol «Milieu Et Végétaux aquatiques fixés». Data processing for each river and then for all studied stretches gave floristic typologies and an assessment of the pattern of vegetation distribution. A wide diversity appeared upstream, due to geology and mineralization, flow and shade. Vegetation was more homogeneous downstream, following eutrophication and river width increase. The ecoregional features are mainly due to geology, then to distance from the sea and to opposition between foothill and lowland rivers. Results are discussed to improve the methodology, paying attention to reference phytocenosis concept.
We present a measurement of the W boson production charge asymmetry in p$\bar{p}$→W+X→eν+X events at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, using 9.7 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 ...detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The neutrino longitudinal momentum is determined by using a neutrino weighting method, and the asymmetry is measured as a function of the W boson rapidity. The measurement extends over wider electron pseudorapidity region than previous results and is the most precise to date, allowing for precise determination of proton parton distribution functions in global fits.
We present a study of the normalized transverse momentum distribution of W bosons produced in $p\bar{p}$ collisions, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.35 fb-1 collected with ...the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV. The measurement focuses on the transverse momentum region below 15 GeV, which is of special interest for electroweak precision measurements; it relies on the same detector calibration methods which were used for the precision measurement of the W boson mass. The measured distribution is compared to different QCD predictions and a procedure is given to allow the comparison of any further theoretical models to the D0 data.
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