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Fourcade, Y., L. Winsor, and J. Justine. 2022. Hammerhead worms everywhere? Modelling the invasion of bipaliin flatworms in a changing climate J. Brito [ed.],. Diversity and Distributions 28: 844–858. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13489
Aim: Alien species introduced into new ecosystems occasionally predate upon or outcompete native species. Land planarians (Geoplanidae) are a family of carnivorous Platyhelminthes among which several species are found outside their native range. Specifically, hammerhead flatworms originate from Asia…
Ruiz, S. A., S. Bickel, and D. Or. 2021. Global earthworm distribution and activity windows based on soil hydromechanical constraints. Communications Biology 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02139-5
Earthworm activity modifies soil structure and promotes important hydrological ecosystem functions for agricultural systems. Earthworms use their flexible hydroskeleton to burrow and expand biopores. Hence, their activity is constrained by soil hydromechanical conditions that permit deformation at e…
Li, X., B. Li, G. Wang, X. Zhan, and M. Holyoak. 2020. Deeply digging the interaction effect in multiple linear regressions using a fractional-power interaction term. MethodsX 7: 101067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.101067
In multiple regression Y ~ β0 + β1X1 + β2X2 + β3X1 X2 + ɛ., the interaction term is quantified as the product of X1 and X2. We developed fractional-power interaction regression (FPIR), using βX1M X2N as the interaction term. The rationale of FPIR is that the slopes of Y-X1 regression along the X2 gr…