Understanding the relative importance of environment and life history strategies in determining leaf chemical traits remains a key objective of plant ecology. We assessed 20 foliar chemical properties among 12 African savanna woody plant species and their relation to environmental variables (hillslope position, precipitation, geology) and two functional traits (thorn type and seed dispersal mec...

OBJECTIVE Jaundice is the most common reason of newborn's admission to neonatal ward. Many Iranian families give traditional remedies like sugar water, camel's thorn and flixweed extracts to breast-fed babies for reducing jaundice. This study investigated the effect of traditional remedies on idiopathic neonatal jaundice. METHODS This prospective study has been performed on 336 babies with id...

AdEdApO, A. A., M. O. AbAtAn, O. O. OlOrunsOgO: Effects of some plants of the spurge family on haematological and biochemical parameters in rats. Vet. arhiv 77, 29-38, 2007. AbstrAct The effects of five suspected poisonous plants of the spurge family (euphorbiaceae) i.e. alchornea cordifolia Schum and Thorn, Cnidoscolus acontifolius Mill, Phyllanthus amarus Schum and Thorn, Phyllanthus muelleri...

Geomorphometry is the science of quantitative land-surface analysis (Pike, 1995, 2000a; Rasemann et al., 2004). It is a modern, analytical-cartographic approach to representing bare-earth topography by the computer manipulation of terrain height (Tobler, 1976, 2000). Geomorphometry is an interdisciplinary field that has evolved from mathematics, the Earth sciences, and — most recently — compute...