Assessing the impact of early warning and evacuation on human losses during the 2021 Ahr Valley flood in Germany using agent-based modelling

Between 12 and 19 July 2021, a quasi-stationary atmospheric low-pressure system named Bernd caused intense precipitation on already-saturated soil, resulting in severe flooding in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.The Ahr Valley in Rhineland-Palatinate was particularly affected, with approximately 42 000 residents impacted, around 8800 building

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Parasitic success and venom composition evolve upon specialization of parasitoid wasps to different host species

Female endoparasitoid wasps usually inject venom into hosts to suppress their immune response and ensure offspring development.However, the parasitoids ability to evolve hdw1620dnpk towards increased success on a given host simultaneously with the evolution of the composition of its venom has never been demonstrated.Here, we designed an experimenta

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