We attempted to identify the mechanisms responsible for adverse e€ects of habitat fragmentation on brown treecreepers (Climacteris picumnus) inhabiting eucalyptus woodland in northeastern New South Wales, Australia by comparing demography and foraging ecology of birds in highly fragmented and relatively unfragmented landscapes. In particular, we investigated three possibilities, disrupted dispe...

—We used underwater visual census (UVC) to characterize fish assemblages among estuaries with different degrees of fragmentation on Andros Island, Bahamas. Estuaries were classified a priori into four fragmentation categories: totally fragmented (no surface water connectivity to the ocean), partially fragmented, minimally fragmented, and unfragmented (unimpeded surface water connectivity throug...

In this competitive age, knowledge is continuously being identified by both scholars and practitioners as the most competitive asset. Numerous organisations in today’s knowledge-intensive economy are keen not only to determine knowledge-sharing but to also introduce strategies to adopt as well as implement knowledge management (KM) so that knowledge coming from workers are transformed into orga...

In this paper we argue that landscape spatial structure is o f central importance in understanding the effects o f f ragmentat ion on populat ion survival Landscape spatial structure is the spatial relationships among habitat patches and the matr ix in which they are e m ~ l d e ~ Many general models o f subditrlded populat ions make the assump. tions that (1) all habitat patches are equivalent...

Crosslinked gels (hylans) containing long-chain (MW>1 x 10(6)Da) hyaluronan (HA), a connective tissue GAG, show exceptional biocompatibility for vascular implantation but poorly interact with vascular endothelial cells (ECs). Previous studies showed in situ fragmentation of HA by UV light to bioactivate hylan gels and elicit enhanced EC responses. Since fragmented HA can be pro-inflammatory, it...

As inherited experience and wisdom from traditional culture, cultural heritage is an important part of modern social life. Using the Neo-classical “Structural Functionalism”, this paper analyzes structural functional changes in Literature Art Cultural Heritage (LACH)1 transition tradition to times. In a society, there are multiple inheritance forms LACH, such as Urban Revitalization, Characteri...

Motivated by recent findings of enhanced species survival when fragmented habitats are reconnected through narrow strips land [S. Pimm, and C. N. Jenkins, Am. Sci. {\bf 107}(3), 162 (2019).], we study the effect a corridor connecting two square regions on time three models exhibiting extinction/survival phase transitions: basic contact process (CP), diffusive process, two-species symbiotic (2SC...

One of the most fundamental achievements in infants' cognitive development is their appreciation that material objects exist permanently in space and time. Recent findings suggest that infants fail to identify fragmented material objects as continuously existing items. Four experiments assessed 8-12-month-old infants' ability to further represent an object that was fragmented into two or more p...