Ever since the first report by the New Zealander, G .lvl. Thomson in 1892, of the occurrence in Tasmania of a number of freshwater crustaceans of ancient lineage, study of these species has been sporadic and it is only within the last decade that zoologists have begun to study the state-wide distribution of these species. Thomson (1892) described the fresh-water shrimp Anaspis tasmaniae~ later ...

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an increasing health problem in Brazil because of encroachment of sprawling urban, agricultural, and cattle-raising areas into habitats of subfamily Sigmodontinae rodents, which serve as hantavirus reservoirs. From 1993 through June 2007, a total of 884 cases of HPS were reported in Brazil (case-fatality rate 39%). To better understand this emerging diseas...

A 70-yr record of oxygen-18 variability in accumulation from the Tanggula Mountains, central Tibetan Plateau D. R. Joswiak, T. Yao, G. Wu, B. Xu, and W. Zheng Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China Received: 30 June 2009 – Accepted: 6 July 2009 – Published: 16 July 2009 Corre...

The composition of archaeological glass reflects the geochemical nature its raw materials. To determine origins and distribution early Islamic glasses from Iran, a set 169 samples five different sites was analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) 58 elements. were classified into six plant ash groups, three which attributed to Mesopotamian origin, while...

Climatic tolerance, especially drought tolerance, is one of the major factors shaping the geographic distributions of plant species. Thus, the general decline in rainfall from the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains (HHM) to the inner Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) might account for the significant differences in species distributions and richness between the two regions. To test this hypothesis, we condu...

twenty-seven species of odonata were collected in the present survey in the freshwaters of south-eastern iran, kerman province, in contrast to 11 species that were recorded previously from this region. in this study, 528 specimens were collected from more than 30 sites in kerman province during 2006-2008. it seems that in this region due to its special biogeographic conditions, species diversit...

CHAMP and Swarm satellite magnetic data are combined to establish the lithospheric magnetic field over the Tibetan Plateau at satellite altitude by using zonal revised spherical cap harmonic analysis (R-SCHA). These data are integrated with geological structures data to analyze the relationship between magnetic anomaly signals and large-scale geological tectonic over the Tibetan Plateau and to ...