Many ecosystems are influenced by disturbances that create specific successional states and habitat structures that species need to persist. Estimating transition probabilities between habitat states and modeling the factors that influence such transitions have many applications for investigating and managing disturbance-prone ecosystems. We identify the correspondence between multistate captur...

Ceratocystis polonica and C. laricicola are two morphologically similar species that occur on conifers and reside in the Ceratocystis coerulescens species complex. They, however, represent two ecologically distinct entities. C. polonica causes blue stain on Norway spruce (Picea abies) and other spruce species (Picea spp.) in Eurasia and is associated with the bark beetles Ips typographus, I. ty...

One of the main populations of the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens), a federally threatened species, occurs on Ocala National Forest, Florida. We determined the nest daily survival rate (DSR) of 474 nests of Florida scrub-jays in stands subject to sand pine reforestation management after timber harvesting or wildfire on Ocala National Forest. We used the information-theoretic approac...

-We hypothesized that similar bird assemblages will occur in like-structured habitat that results from both clearcutting and high-intensity wildfire followed by salvage logging. To test this, we compared bird communities of sand pine scrub in mature forest and three disturbance treatments (1) high-intensity wildfire, salvage logged, and naturally regenerated, (2) clearcut, roller chopped, and b...

0006-3207/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.05.008 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 407 823 2919; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A.A. Sua Fauth), [email protected] (J.D. Roth), cparkins@m [email protected] (I.J. Stout). 1 Present address: Public Lands Institute, University Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA. Debate about the relative ...

Leptogenys is the most diverse ponerine ant genus in the world; it is widespread throughout tropical and subtropical regions and there are over 200 extant species described. Most species have ergatoid queens, and many have falcate, bowed mandibles and are specialists on isopod prey. Here, the Malagasy Leptogenys are revised with 60 species recognized, of which 40 are newly described, 18 redescr...

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , December , 2006; 21 (12): 3481-3487. Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. Ruth Glover, Jeffrey Barron and Andrew Bruce Lemmey Jamie H. Macdonald, Samuele M. Marcora, Mahdi Jibani, Gareth Roberts, Mick John Kumwenda, glomerular filtration rate in non-diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease Bioelectrical impedance can be used to predict muscle mass and hence improve e...