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1. Tropical Forest # Fruit decline threatens forest elephants {#compilation-2-1-article-title-1} Large mammal herbivores in African tropical forests are major…

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Deep BiosphereMarine sediments represent a massive microbial ecosystem, but we still do not fully understand what factors shape and limit life underneath the seafloor. Analyzing samples from a subduction zone off the coast of Japan, Heuer et al. found that microbial life, in particular bacterial vegetative cells, decreases as depth and temperature increases down to 600 meters below the seafloor, corresponding to temperatures of 70°C. Below this limit, endospores are commona remnant, and a potential…

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