The observation that ‘‘on the whole. . . larger species live farther north and the smaller ones farther south’’ was first published by Carl Bergmann in 1847. However, why animal body mass might show such spatial variation, and indeed whether it is a general feature of animal assemblages, is currently unclear. We discuss reasons for this uncertainty, and use our conclusions to direct an analysis...

ardekoul fault zone which is along nnw-sse is located in eastern iran and northern part of the sistan subzone. dextral strike-slip fault zone of ardekuol is made of six main segments including korizan (28 km), bohn abad (8.8 km), abiz (32 km), gazkoon (20 km), moein abad (30.4 km), ghal maran (12 km), and two minor segments including olang morgh (12.8 km) and seh pestan (9.6 km).  the studied r...

BACKGROUND Rotavirus still remains the major cause of diarrhea in children below 5 years. No data on rotavirus epidemiology is available in the Northern regions of Cameroon. We aimed to determine the prevalence of group A rotavirus (RVA) in children below 5 years with diarrhea in two regions of Northern Cameroon (North West and Far North Regions) so as to improve our knowledge on the burden of ...

The megafossil record of Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae) in the Northern Hemisphere, especially that in Europe, is reviewed with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the biogeographic history of this genus and providing an explanation of the causes of eastern Asian and western and eastern North American intercontinental disjunction of extant members. The fossil data available favor the hyp...