The San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica; SJKF) is federally endangered due to profound habitat loss. A population of SJKF occurs in the urban environment city Bakersfield, California, and may be important for conservation. We conducted a systematic survey using automated camera stations occupancy analysis identify suitable Bakersfield estimate conceptual carrying capacity environment. i...

Abstract In 2017, 400 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were still using unimproved drinking water sources, 80 of whom relied on untreated surface water. Urban areas are vastly expanding all over the continent and many larger cities SSA struggle to provide safely managed Phytoremediation implemented constructed wetlands (CWs) is a low-cost sustainable alternative highly costly energy-c...

Colchicine has been applied to young developing anthers of Triticum aestivtim at varying stages of maturity from the last premeiotic mitoses of the archesporial and tapetal cells to the second meiotic divisions of the pollen mother cells. The developmental stage of the archesporium at which colchicine took effect was determined by cytological examination of the ploidy levels of the nuclei of th...

Interaction of flavokawain B (FB), a multitherapeutic flavonoid from Alpinia mutica with the major transport protein, human serum albumin (HSA), was investigated using different spectroscopic probes, i.e., intrinsic, synchronous, and three-dimensional (3-D) fluorescence, circular dichroism (CD), and molecular modeling studies. Values of binding parameters for FB-HSA interaction in terms of bind...

Although rodenticides are increasingly regulated, they nonetheless cause poisonings in many non-target wildlife species. Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide use is common in agricultural and residential landscapes. Here, we use an individual-based population model to assess potential population-wide effects of rodenticide exposures on the endangered San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis ...

Pollinator syndrome is one of the most important determinants regulating pollen dispersal in tropical tree species. It has been widely accepted that the reproduction of tropical forest species, especially dipterocarps that rely on insects with weak flight for their pollination, is positively density-dependent. However differences in pollinator syndrome should affect pollen dispersal patterns an...