THE PERCEPTION OF PALAEONTOLOGY IN COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF VIDEO GAMES AND AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR POTENTIAL AS EDUCATIONAL TOOLS

The perception of palaeontology in commercial off-the-shelf video games and an assessment of their potential as educational tools

Video games now comprise the largest sector of the media entertainment industry.Hundreds of video games, spanning a huge variety Batteries of genres and platforms, use extinct animals and/or palaeontological themes as a basis for their gameplay.Because of this, many players, especially children, spend long periods of time engaging with and being im

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Understanding animal group-size distributions.

One of the most striking aspects of animal groups is their remarkable variation in size, both within and between species.While a number of mechanistic models have been proposed to explain this variation, there are few comprehensive datasets against which these models have been tested.In particular, we only vaguely understand how environmental facto

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus facilitates ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) growth and polychlorinated biphenyls degradation in a soil applied with nanoscale zero-valent iron

Nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) shows an excellent degradation effect on chlorinated contaminants in soil, but poses a threat to plants in combination with phytoremediation.Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus can reduce the phyototoxicity of nZVI, but their combined impacts on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) degradation and plant growth remain un

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