1 Migration potential as a new predictor of long-distance dispersal rate for 2 plants 3 4 Tianhua He, Byron B. Lamont, Neal J. Enright, Siegfried L. Krauss and Laura Merwin 5 6 7 T. He ([email protected]), B. B. Lamont, N. J. Enright and L. Merwin, Centre for 8 Ecosystem Diversity and Dynamics, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin 9 University, PO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Austr...

forests are biologically diverse systems, representing some of the richest biological areas on earth. they offer a variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. however, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, fragmentation, climate change and other stressors. biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on t...

A monograph-length analysis of biodiversity from two senior philosophers of biology reflects two things: the problematic complexity of the concept, and the interesting theoretical and methodological issues the sciences studying and endeavouring to protect it raise. The concept’s significance is common currency within environmental ethics, but biodiversity has only recently garnered broader phil...

The identity of patients must be protected when patient data are shared. The two most commonly used models to protect identity of patients are L-diversity and K-anonymity. However, existing work mainly considers data sets with a single sensitive attribute, while patient data often contain multiple sensitive attributes (e.g., diagnosis and treatment). This article shows that although the K-anony...

Studies in Australia on thrips have had extensive impacts worldwide. In behaviour, the latest definition of eusociality is derived from work on the radiation of thrips on Acacia species in central Australia, and these Acacia thrips also having been used to develop the concept of ‘model clades’ for analysing the evolution of behavioural and ecological diversity. In ecology, the concept of the la...