The topic of state responsibility was the main focus codification work International Law Commission as an auxiliary body United Nations General Assembly for almost half a century, and in final phase that work, 2001, it resulted adoption Draft Articles on Responsibility States Internationally Wrongful Acts. As this act did not contain provisions succession responsibility, at session held 2017, d...

Human activities, such as agriculture and shrimp farming, have influenced the Huizache-Caimanero lagoon system, modifying the landscape and diminishing its natural productivity. Four Landsat MSS (multi-spectral scanner) and TM (thematic mapper) sub-images, taken between 1973 and 1997, were analysed to evaluate trends of changes in the lagoon, saltmarsh, mangrove, agriculture, secondary successi...

Fire and insects are natural disturbance agents in many forest ecosystems, often interacting to affect succession, nutrient cycling, and forest species composition. We review literature pertaining to effects of fire-insect interactions on ecological succession, use of prescribed fire for insect pest control, and effects of fire on insect diversity from northern and boreal forests in North Ameri...

A conceptual model that provides a means of viewing changes in vegetation as responses to weathering of soil mantles over thousands ofyears has been developed from investigations of vegetation communities on a soil chronosequence on sand dunes extending back in time to at least the last interglacial. Progressive and retrogressive phases in natural plant succession are indicated by this sequence...

Investigation into the mechanisms responsible for community assembly (habitat filtering, niche differentiation) is essential understanding processes maintaining coexistence of species rich natural communities. Studies such have up to now been almost exclusively limited communities primary producers or consumers, and very few are focused on predatory Top-down regulation by predators other hand i...

intergenerational succession aims at the renewal of family farm and addresses the problem of increasing aged population of principal farm owners. this study assessed poultry farm characteristics and poultry farmers’ perception of farm succession planning in southwest nigeria. a multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting poultry farmers in oyo and osun states.  data were analyzed using ...