Secondary dispersal is an important stage in the life cycle of tree species, determining the fate of a high proportion of all seeds. For small-seeded species both physical and biological processes may influence the secondary fate of seeds, however the relative importance of these processes is not well known. Seeds of the pioneer tree species Cecropia insignis (seed mass 0.5 mg), Trema micrantha...

The time required to search a buried person using an avalanche beacon contributes significantly to the overall rescue time. This paper investigates the technical requirements and psychological demands with respect to minimal search time. The earlier ones define a beacon's technical specification, the latter ones the design of the user interface. The first search phase is mainly characterized by...

The generation and migration of bedforms (eg, ripples, megaripples and sand bars) on sandy bottoms in the nearshore (0-8 m water depths) provides a mechanism for objects on the seafloor to become buried. As a bedform migrates past a mine, the mine will fall to the low point of the bedform trough before subsequently being buried by the passage of the following bedform crest. The statistics of mi...

a study of the diagenetic evolution of sandstones from panyu low-uplift in the pearl river mouth basin was carried out to unravel the controls on shelf margin sandstone reservoir quality. the reservoir rocks, oligocene volcanic clastic sandstones of the zhuhai formation, have a burial depth of 2765 to 3440 m. 70 samples were studied using the granulometric analyses, x-ray diffraction (xrd) anal...