Geological history of oceanic islands can have a profound effect on the evolutionary history of insular flora, especially in complex islands such as Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Tenerife results from the secondary connection of three paleo-islands by a central volcano, and other geological events that further shaped it. This geological history has been shown to influence the phylogenetic his...

Eine Geschichte der Anatomie und Physiologie von Albrecht von Haller, by CARLo ZANETrI and URsuLA WIMMER-AESCHLIMANN (Berner Beitraige zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Band 1), Berne, Huber Verlag, 1968, pp. 157, S.Fr./DM.19. This paperback is the first of a new collection of historical reviews published under the general title of 'Berne reviews on the history of Medicine...

Many factors affect the number of birds detected on point count surveys of breeding songbirds. The magnitude and importance of these factors are not well understood. We used a bird song simulation system to quantify the effects of detection distance, singing rate, species differences, and observer differences on detection probabilities of birds detected by ear. We simulated 40 point counts cons...

Four species of shellfish (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Ostrea edulis, Chlamis varia and Venus verrucosa) were collected during the autumn 2011 and spring 2012 along the eastern Adriatic coast from six shellfish harvesting areas (all species) and 13 breeding sampling areas (mussels) to assess As, Cd, Hg and Pb levels and the human risks of shellfish consumption. The mean metal concentrations (wet...