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focus on primary succession in habitats formed on May 18, 1980, to explore mechanisms that control establishment of plants on new landforms. The rate of early primary succession is generally believed to be slow (cf. Crocker & Major 1955; Shure & Ragsdale 1977; Houle & Phillips 1989), though rates can differ significantly. As conditions are ameliorated by weathering and nutrient accumulation, th...

Esan Native Law and Customs like any other customary laws in Nigeria is recognised as law that regulated the aspect of people subject to its jurisdiction. One such aspect, succession inheritance rights. Although, has from time immemorial made adequate sufficient rules regulate govern rights, recently these have come under vigorous legal scrutiny concerning their applicability vis-à-vis enforcem...

It is a privilege to begin my term as editor-in-chief of the British Journal Ophthalmology ( BJO ), and with benefit number significant improvements made journal over past seven years by outgoing editors-in-chief, Keith Barton, James Chodosh Jost Jonas. Their stewardship has been successful every measure. My responsibility for next further expand quality standing . In this I will not be alone. ...

Deterministic and stochastic processes jointly determine the community dynamics of forest succession. However, it has been widely held in previous studies that deterministic processes dominate forest succession. Furthermore, inference of mechanisms for community assembly may be misleading if based on a single axis of diversity alone. In this study, we evaluated the relative roles of determinist...

Sediment microorganisms help create and maintain mangrove ecosystems. Although the changes in vegetation during mangrove forest succession have been well studied, the changes in the sediment microbial community during mangrove succession are poorly understood. To investigate the changes in the sediment microbial community during succession of mangroves at Zhanjiang, South China, we used phospho...

Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly developed independent of each other. Here we provide a framework that integrates shifts in community assembly processes with microbial primary succession to better understand mechanisms governing the stochastic/deterministic...

Green Cryptography is a technique which enables a natural succession of cryptographic primitives. Cryptographic operations are made energy-efficient in a way that it promises the use of approaches of lightweight cryptography. These Lightweight cryptographic algorithms are certainly worn for the devices which use low or extremely low resources. In this paper we have proposed a watermarking schem...

Wildfire is the one of the prominent disturbance factor in most vegetation zones throughout the world, like forests and grasslands. Wildfires present a challenge for ecosystem management, because they have the potential to be at once beneficial and harmful. On the one hand, wildfires are a natural part of several ecosystems for maintaining their health and diversity in numerous ways, such as re...