Our aim was to evaluate whether the richness and composition of anurans responded time forest regeneration via secondary succession. We sampled anuran community in a mosaic areas at three different stages succession Atlantic Forest, southern Brazil. The were collected from nine lentic ponds their margins up 50 m radius. late sheltered higher species richness, followed by primary forest. spatial...

The response of ground-dwelling spider assemblages to edges created by wildfire was compared to their response to clear-cut edges in black spruce forests in eastern Canada. For each disturbance six edge transects 100 m long were established. Spiders were collected with pitfall traps 10 m apart from 50 m inside the disturbances to 50 m in the forest interior. Measurements of the forest floor str...

The present paper examines the functional diversity-environment relation in a placer rich tropical bay. Understanding the environmental variables that determine the biodiversity pattern will help in the effective conservation plans of coastal habitat. However, few studies have been carried out on the biodiversity-environment relation from the diverse tropical coastal ecosystem. The geographic l...

This study focuses on the mechanisms of pipe diffusion and kinetic point defect along dislocation line in MgO. We developed a numerical approach, based atomic scale calculations use elasticity theory, to determine migration energies defects. The is then evaluated according on-lattice atomistic Monte Carlo algorithm informed by simulations. show that edge MgO behaves as strong sink for vacancies...

the effects of physical, thermal and mechanical parameters on curing microthermal residual stresses are studied, based on the energy method, to present a theoretical solution for prediction of residual stress felds. a fnite element analysis is developed to compare the theoretical and numerical results together. there is found to be a good agreement between the results of the two methods. howeve...

Within ecology, there are unanswered questions about species-habitat interactions, which could potentially be resolved by a pragmatic analysis of a long-term volunteer-collected dataset. Here, we analysed 18 years of volunteer-collected data from a UK dormouse nestbox monitoring programme to determine the influence of habitat variables on nestbox choice by common dormice (Muscardinusavellanariu...