The relict population of Neotoma fl oridana occurring along the Niobrara River in north-central Nebraska was found to have a diet composed of 38 types of food items of which 37 types were plants. Unique features of the summer diet of this population were a higher than expected use of red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) and invertebrates as food items.

In this paper, three new Phyllocoptini eriophyoid mite species from Yunnan Province, China are described and illustrated: Proiectus rodgeseta sp. nov. on Pinus armandii Franch. (Pinaceae), Proiectus granularpro sp. nov. on Pinus tabuliformis Carr. (Pinaceae) and Phyllocoptrutajuniperiana sp. nov. on Juniperus chinensis Linn. (Cupressaceae). All are vagrants causing no apparent damage to their h...

To test the hypothesis that eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) is allelopathic, seedling establishment of five herbaceous prairie species was evaluated by growing seeds in soil collected beneath and adjacent to a stand ofthis tree species. While four species showed no significant effect, the gennination of one species, finger coreopsis (Coreopsis pa/mata Nutt.), was significantly reduc...

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Risk Assessment in Acute Coronary Syndromes, David A. Morrow, Nader Rifai, Marc S. Sabatine, Shake Ayanian, Sabina A. Murphy, James A. de Lemos, Eugene Braunwald, and Christopher P. Cannon ( Department of Medicine and TIMI Study Group, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115; 2 Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115; and 3 Donald W. Reynolds...