A spatially explicit forest gap model was developed for the Sierra Nevada, California, and is the first of its kind because it integrates climate, fire and forest pattern. The model simulates a forest stand as a grid of 15×15 m forest plots and simulates the growth of individual trees within each plot. Fuel inputs are generated from each individual tree according to tree size and species. Fuel ...

Projected changes in global climate have important ramifications for the future of national parks and other reserves set aside to conserve ecological uniqueness. We explored potential implications of climatic changes on lifeform distribution and growth at Wind Cave National Park (WCNP), South Dakota, which lies on a climatically determined ecotone between grassland and forest. Fire, promoted by...

PROGRESSION MODEL 2 3 Michael S. Nastasie, Helmut Thissen, David A. Jans and Kylie M. Wagstaff 4 Nuclear Signalling Laboratory, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash 5 University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia 6 CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Bayview Avenue, Clayton, Victoria 3168, 7 Australia 8 Running Title: Tumour selective nuclear targeting 9 10 *Correspondence shou...

6 1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, 7 Australia. 8 2 Labortoratory for Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9 University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. 10 3 Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia. 11 4 Austin Centre for Infection Research, Infectiou...

IN ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT DENDRITIC PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN HIPOCAMPAL NEURONS* Ruomu Gong, Chang Sin Park, Nima Rezaei Abbassi and Shao-Jun Tang From the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, USA Running Title: Glutamate Receptors and the mTOR Signaling in Dendritic Protein Synthesis Address Correspond...

New Levels of Transcriptome Complexity at Upper Thermal Limits in Wild Drosophila 1 revealed by Exon Expression Analysis 2 3 Marina Telonis-Scott, Belinda van Heerwaarden, Travis K. Johnson Ary. A. Hoffmann 4 and Carla. M. Sgrò 5 6 School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, 3800 Victoria, Australia 7 8 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton,...

Xiao Shen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800 Mark R. Pederson Complex Systems Theory Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5000 Jin-Cheng Zheng Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000 James W. Davenport Computational Science Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY...