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Dilworth S, Taylor BW. Facilitating the recovery of insect communities in restored streams by increasing oviposition habitat. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2024; 34:e2939. [PMID: 38071730 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
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Recruitment limitation is known to influence species abundances and distributions. Recognition of how and why it occurs both in natural and in designed environments could improve restoration. Aquatic insects, for instance, rarely reestablish in restored streams to levels comparable to reference streams even years after restoration. We experimentally increased oviposition habitat in five out of 10 restored streams in western North Carolina to test whether insect egg-laying habitat was limiting insect populations in restored streams. A main goal was to test whether adding oviposition habitat in the form of rocks that partially protrude above the water surface could be used to increase the abundance and richness of stream insect eggs and larval insects in restored streams. Adding egg-laying habitat enhanced several response variables (e.g., protruding rocks, number of eggs, egg masses, egg morphotype richness, and oviposition habitat stability) to levels similar to those found in reference streams. Following the addition of protruding rocks, egg mass abundance increased by 186% and richness by 77% in restored-treated streams. Densities of larval insects that attached their eggs to protruding rocks showed an overall pattern consistent with treatment effects due to the combination of nonsignificant and significant increases of several taxa and not just one taxon. Our results indicate that these stream insect populations are limited by oviposition habitat and that adding egg-laying habitat alleviated this component of recruitment limitation. However, the weaker larval response indicates that additional post-recruitment factors, such as egg or larval mortality, may still be limiting a full recovery of larval insect abundances in these restored streams. This study shows the importance of integrating information from animal life histories, ecology, and geomorphology into restoration practices to improve the recovery of aquatic insects, which are commonly used to assess water quality and the biological efficacy of stream restoration.
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- Samantha Dilworth
- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Singh Dhami H, Ranjan Panda P, S P, Viswanathan K. Of fiery sparks and glittering spots: melting-resolidification and spherical particle formation in abrasion. Proc Math Phys Eng Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2022.0629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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The curious occurrence of perfectly spherical particle debris when a steel substrate is slid against a hard abrasive was first documented by Robert Hooke in the seventeenth century. Similar observations now abound in other abrasion-type processes, from industrial grinding to sliding rock faults. The prevalent hypothesis, originally proposed by Hooke, is that these particles form due to high local temperatures, resulting in particle ejection, melting and resolidification. In this work, we revisit this hypothesis, using a model steel-abrasive contact, a combination of
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and post-process investigations, and complementary analytical calculations. Our results reveal two primary findings—firstly, the temperature of particles ejected from the contact zone is far from the melting point, and secondly, exothermic surface oxidation plays a critical role in actually melting the particle. Melting is either complete or partial, leading to spherical particles or ‘slivers’, as described originally by Hooke. Finally, we confirm that resulting particle surface patterns are typical of rapid solidification from the melt. Apart from throwing light on a centuries’ old curiosity, our results precisely quantify the melting-resolidification process, with implications for a variety of applications, ranging from abrasion and powder production to the formation of micrometeorite dust.
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Deal E, Venditti JG, Benavides SJ, Bradley R, Zhang Q, Kamrin K, Perron JT. Grain shape effects in bed load sediment transport. Nature 2023; 613:298-302. [PMID: 36631652 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05564-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Bed load sediment transport, in which wind or water flowing over a bed of sediment causes grains to roll or hop along the bed, is a critically important mechanism in contexts ranging from river restoration1 to planetary exploration2. Despite its widespread occurrence, predictions of bed load sediment flux are notoriously imprecise3,4. Many studies have focused on grain size variability5 as a source of uncertainty, but few have investigated the role of grain shape, even though shape has long been suspected to influence transport rates6. Here we show that grain shape can modify bed load transport rates by an amount comparable to the scatter in many sediment transport datasets4,7,8. We develop a theory that accounts for grain shape effects on fluid drag and granular friction and predicts that the onset and efficiency of transport depend on the coefficients of drag and bulk friction of the transported grains. Laboratory experiments confirm these predictions and reveal that the effect of grain shape on sediment transport can be difficult to intuit from the appearance of grains. We propose a shape-corrected sediment transport law that collapses our experimental measurements. Our results enable greater accuracy in predictions of sediment transport and help reconcile theories developed for spherical particles with the behaviour of natural sediment grains.
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- Eric Deal
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Pál G, Domokos G, Kun F. Curvature flows, scaling laws and the geometry of attrition under impacts. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20661. [PMID: 34667174 PMCID: PMC8526698 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00030-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Impact induced attrition processes are, beyond being essential models of industrial ore processing, broadly regarded as the key to decipher the provenance of sedimentary particles. Here we establish the first link between microscopic, particle-based models and the mean field theory for these processes. Based on realistic computer simulations of particle-wall collision sequences we first identify the well-known damage and fragmentation energy phases, then we show that the former is split into the abrasion phase with infinite sample lifetime (analogous to Sternberg's Law) at finite asymptotic mass and the cleavage phase with finite sample lifetime, decreasing as a power law of the impact velocity (analogous to Basquin's Law). This splitting establishes the link between mean field models (curvature-driven partial differential equations) and particle-based models: only in the abrasion phase does shape evolution emerging in the latter reproduce with startling accuracy the spatio-temporal patterns (two geometric phases) predicted by the former.
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- Gergő Pál
- grid.7122.60000 0001 1088 8582Department of Theoretical Physics, Doctoral School of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 400, 4002 Debrecen, Hungary ,grid.418861.20000 0001 0674 7808Institute of Nuclear Research (Atomki), P.O. Box 51, 4001 Debrecen, Hungary
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- grid.6759.d0000 0001 2180 0451Department of Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3., K261, 1111 Budapest, Hungary ,grid.5018.c0000 0001 2149 4407MTA-BME Morphodynamics Reserarch Group, Műegyetem rkp. 3., K261, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
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- grid.7122.60000 0001 1088 8582Department of Theoretical Physics, Doctoral School of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box 400, 4002 Debrecen, Hungary
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Bedload transport modelling in rivers takes into account the size and density of pebbles to estimate particle mobility, but does not formally consider particle shape. To address this issue and to compare the relative roles of the density and shape of particles, we performed original sediment transport experiments in an annular flume using molded artificial pebbles equipped with a radio frequency identification tracking system. The particles were designed with four distinct shapes and four different densities while having the same volume, and their speeds and distances traveled under constant hydraulic conditions were analyzed. The results show that particle shape has more influence than particle density on the resting time between particle displacement and the mean traveling distance. For all densities investigated, the particle shape systematically induced differences in travel distance that were strongly correlated (R2 = 0.94) with the Sneed and Folks shape index. Such shape influences, although often mentioned, are here quantified for the first time, demonstrating why and how they can be included in bedload transport models.
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Plato envisioned Earth's building blocks as cubes, a shape rarely found in nature. The solar system is littered, however, with distorted polyhedra-shards of rock and ice produced by ubiquitous fragmentation. We apply the theory of convex mosaics to show that the average geometry of natural two-dimensional (2D) fragments, from mud cracks to Earth's tectonic plates, has two attractors: "Platonic" quadrangles and "Voronoi" hexagons. In three dimensions (3D), the Platonic attractor is dominant: Remarkably, the average shape of natural rock fragments is cuboid. When viewed through the lens of convex mosaics, natural fragments are indeed geometric shadows of Plato's forms. Simulations show that generic binary breakup drives all mosaics toward the Platonic attractor, explaining the ubiquity of cuboid averages. Deviations from binary fracture produce more exotic patterns that are genetically linked to the formative stress field. We compute the universal pattern generator establishing this link, for 2D and 3D fragmentation.
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Bertoni D, Dean S, Trembanis AC, Sarti G. Multi-month sedimentological characterization of the backshore of an artificial coarse-clastic beach in Italy. RENDICONTI LINCEI. SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-019-00852-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Broßell D, Heunisch E, Meyer-Plath A, Bäger D, Bachmann V, Kämpf K, Dziurowitz N, Thim C, Wenzlaff D, Schumann J, Plitzko S. Assessment of nanofibre dustiness by means of vibro-fluidization. POWDER TECHNOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2018.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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