Two alternative “strategies” will not coexist in a population unless on average they are equally successful. The most likely way for such an equilibrium to be maintained is through something equivalent to frequencydependent selection. Females of the digger wasp Sphex ichneumoneus (Sphecidae) nest in underground burrows. They usually dig and provision these by themselves but occasionally a nest ...

Rodent burrows are often assumed to be environments wherein the air has a high concentration of CO₂. Although high burrow [CO₂] has been recorded, many studies report burrow [CO₂] that differs only slightly from atmospheric concentrations. Here, we advocate that one of the reasons for these differences is the penetration into burrows of air gusts (eddies), which originate in the turbulent bound...

BACKGROUND The Natural History Museum (NHM) sound archive contains recordings of Gryllotalpidae, and the NHM collection holds plaster casts of the burrows of two species. These recordings and burrows have until now not been made available through the NHM's collection database, making it hard for researchers to make use of these resources. NEW INFORMATION Eighteen recordings of mole crickets (...

Burrows within black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado, were dusted with deltamethrin insecticide to reduce flea (Insecta: Siphonaptera) abundance. Flea populations were monitored pre- and posttreatment by combing prairie dogs and collecting fleas from burrows. A single application of deltamethrin significantly re...

Burrow-dwelling rodents are often considered ecosystem engineer species in arid environments. They create distinct habitat patches by building burrows: they move large amounts of soil, mix soil layers and change properties locally. Our aim was to explore the role Steppe Marmot as an shaping plant composition diversity steppes. First, we made a literature search gather information on engineering...

ÐA very interesting recent development in data compression is the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation [1]. The idea is to permute the input sequence in such a way that characters with a similar context are grouped together. We provide a thorough analysis of the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation from an information theoretic point of view. Based on this analysis, the main part of the paper systematicall...

Author’s Note. The material of this chapter, while quoting extensively from other work, is in part a summary of my own experience and thoughts in working with the Burrows-Wheeler compression algorithm. Some of it is accordingly rather less formal in style than might otherwise be the case, as I give more personal opinions on various aspects. Where my own work already appears in the public domain...