NOTES ON CALIFORNIA BUTTERFLIES.

Synchronous population dynamics in California butterflies explained by climatic forcing

A long-standing challenge for population biology has been to understand why some species are characterized by populations that fluctuate in size independently, while populations of other species fluctuate synchronously across space. The effects of climatic variation and dispersal have been invoked to explain synchronous population dynamics, however an understanding of the relative influence of ...

Breaking butterflies on a wheel.

W ell it’s that time of the year again. As the southern hemisphere slowly warms to a new spring, so the annual Ig Nobel awards reappear. I have written about these previously, but to the uninitiated these awards embody the pinnacle of human achievement and represent eccentric and unusual research as an alternative to the ‘‘real’’ Nobel awards, which although awarded at the same time tend to be ...

California Linguistic Notes Volume Xxx No. 2 Fall, 2005

introduced by Ray Jackendoff (1983), also has considerable influence on the work of many construction grammarians (p. 191-192). Construction Grammar is no longer a new theory in linguistics but a tradition with respectable history since the late sixties (p. 123). This review highlights the work of Jan-Michaelis in the volume. This theory claims that the conceptual fundamentals to language are f...

Notes from the Field: Increase in Coccidioidomycosis — California, 2016

Coccidioidomycosis, or Valley Fever, is an infectious disease caused by inhalation of Coccidioides spp. spores (1). This soil-dwelling fungus is endemic in the southwestern United States, with most (97%) U.S. cases reported from Arizona and California (1,2). Following an incubation period of 1-3 weeks, symptomatic patients most often experience self-limited, influenza-like symptoms, but coccidi...

Reply to Nylin, Wickman & Wiklund regarding sex ratios of California overwintering monarch butterflies