In urban landscapes, gardens provide refuges for bee diversity, but conservation potential may depend on local and landscape features. Foraging and population persistence of bee species, as well as overall pollinator community structure, may be supported by the abundance, richness, and spatial distribution of floral resources. Floral resources strongly differ in urban gardens. Using hand nettin...

Visitors to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital may be in for a lovely surprise. Those who venture past the Peter Pan statue at the entrance, through the busy corridors, and into the middle of the hospital will eventually discover a little garden, secreted away from the hustle and bustle. Built on an abandoned boilerhouse roof, it is now a small retreat—quiet, peaceful, and sheltered. It is s...

In May 1996 the Denver Zoological Gardens obtained two male and two female Pallas' cats (Otocolobus felis manul) that were wild-caught in the Ukraine. These animals were part of a group of 16 wild-caught adults (eight male and eight female) imported to the United States and Canada between 1995 and 1996. The Denver Zoological Gardens cats were quarantined at the zoo hospital for approximately I ...

Since the formal description of fungi in the genus Escovopsis in 1990, only a few studies have focused on the systematics of this group. For more than two decades, only two Escovopsis species were described; however, in 2013, three additional Escovopsis species were formally described along with the genus Escovopsioides, both found exclusively in attine ant gardens. During a survey for Escovops...

Japanese gardens are widely appreciated all over the world for sophisticated, minimal compositions and for the calm yet profound atmosphere which they engender. How are the visual elements of a garden, its rocks, moss, and shrubs, interpreted by the brain, and how do gardens achieve particular expressive and artistic effects? In this paper we suggest how principles of visual psychology can be u...

Gardens is a system which supports adaptive parallel computation across networks of workstations. This is achieved by over decomposing a program into more tasks than there are processors. Tasks are migrated to realise adaptation to changing workstation loads e.g. the coming and going of interactive users. Gardens supports a virtual shared object space. Object references are location transparent...

BACKGROUND School gardening programmes are increasingly popular, with suggested benefits including healthier eating and increased physical activity. Our objectives were to understand the health and well-being impacts of school gardens and the factors that help or hinder their success. METHODS We conducted a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence (PROSPERO CRD42014007181). ...

ed their forms and, working with darkness, subsumed them into a glittering kinetic whole (Fig. 7). 2. A Turkish fair: Album Amicorum, watercolor, 17th century (courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Picture Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London) 11 Regarding slides and ramps, see Cartmell, Incredible Scream Machine, 19; on St. Bartholomew fairs, see Frederick Fried, Built to Amuse: Views fro...

Pseudo-total (i.e. aqua regia extractable) and gastric-bioaccessible (i.e. glycine+HCl extractable) concentrations of Ca, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn were determined in a total of 48 samples collected from six community urban gardens of different characteristics in the city of Madrid (Spain). Calcium carbonate appears to be the soil property that determines the bioaccessibility of a major...

The impacts of Wasmannia auropunctata (the little fire ant) on the native biota and subsistence agriculture in the Solomon Islands are poorly understood. This species was originally introduced as a biological control against nut-fall bugs (Amblypelta sp.) around 30 years ago and in the intervening time has spread throughout the Solomon Islands, aided movement of produce and planting material. I...