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The evaluation of beekeeping management practices (BMPs) is important for beekeepers worldwide because their choice affects health and survival of managed honeybee (A. mellifera L.) colonies and touches ethical and economic questions. This study focusses on queen excluders, a common hive addition in contemporary beekeeping. Its impacts are controversially discussed but have not been studied scientifically yet. Within a 4-year participatory on-farm experiment, we assessed the effects on colony dynamics in 64 hives in 8 apiaries during one season in Germany using the Liebefeld estimation method. We found no significant deviation for parameters of colony dynamics between hives managed with and without queen excluders. A qualitative decision-making tool (Pugh decision matrix) facilitated concept selection only for specific beekeepers.
Scanning Kelvin probe and photoemission electron microscopy of organic source-drain structures
(2004)
Kelvin-AFM is employed to study all polymer organic thin film transistors which are promising candidates for low cost - low performance applications like active matrix displays, sensors or single-serving devices. We use bottom contact source-drain- electrode structures of different organic materials like carbon-black or graphite plotted on a printing foil. Semiconducting regioregular Poly(3-Hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) was subsequently deposited by spin coating. Surface potential profiles across the transistor channel were measured by Kelvin-AFM for various source-drain potential differences and signs. We found that contact resistances cause characteristic steps in the surface potential near the channel edges which vary with the electrode material. Furthermore, nonlinearities appear in the potential gradient which possibly give evidence for lateral inhomogeneities of the carrier mobilities. In summary, surface potential imaging with high lateral resolution ( approx. 100 nm) is introduced as a powerful tool for the characterisation of the transistor performance and the selection of suitable low cost electrode materials.
n order to optimize organic field effect transistors (OFETs), the characterisation of active-layer surfaces in terms of their roughness, chemical composition and distribution of surface potentials is important. We report on high-resolution microscopic mapping of organic source-drain structures with P3HT as the semiconductor by scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) and photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM). It was shown that PEEM is able to characterise the surface morphology (roughness), the chemical homogeneity and the composition of organic structures. The two-dimensional mapping of surface potentials by SKPM with applied source-drain voltages is shown to be an important ingredient of OFETs failure mode analysis.
Surface filling-in and contour interpolation contribute independently to Kanizsa figure formation
(2018)
A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification
(2024)
AbstractOrganismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these strategies at the entire community level is unclear. Here, we combine trait data for 2800 above- and belowground taxa from 14 trophic guilds spanning a disturbance and resource availability gradient in German grasslands. The results indicate that most guilds consistently respond to these drivers through both direct and trophically mediated effects, resulting in a ‘slow-fast’ axis at the level of the entire community. Using 15 indicators of carbon and nutrient fluxes, biomass production and decomposition, we also show that fast trait communities are associated with faster rates of ecosystem functioning. These findings demonstrate that ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ strategies can be manifested at the level of whole communities, opening new avenues of ecosystem-level functional classification.