effects of fire on mountain biodiversity

... Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests University of Hawaii Press Grau, A and Brown, D (2000) Development threats to biodiversity and opportunities for conservation in the mountain ... Unfortunately, due to the lack of sound information, at present we can only hypothesize about these effects in the grasslands of Los Toldos On the other hand, the short-term effect of fire on forage availability ... AM Fire, Plant Species Richness and Biomass in Mountain Grasslands of NW Argentina erosion hazards that may have further implications on the hydrology and nutrient dynamics of the system (Hofstede...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... populations An essay on population regulation and speciation University of Washington Press, Seattle Sinclair, M., and T D Iles 1989 Population regulation and speciation in the oceans ICES Journal of ... the National Science Foundation during construction of this manuscript This is contribution number 3277 from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science REFERENCES Adams, S M 1976 The ecology of eelgrass, ... combination of variables that best explain the variation of the response variables and uses Monte Carlo permutation tests to determine the statistical significance of the model and each of the explanatory...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 12:54

... information to conduct a computational-intensive iterative optimization of the best orientation of n objects (transect samples) on k dimensions (axes) which minimizes the divergence from monotonicity ... extinctions in the hotspots of biodiversity Conservation Biology 16: 909–923 BOONROTPONG, S., SOTTHIBANDHU, S & PHOLPUNTHIN, C 2004 Species composition of dung beetles in primary and secondary ... extinction of dung beetles in an isolated forest fragment The bulk of insect extinctions through tropical deforestation often go unnoticed due to lack of information and historical records of insects...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:34

... distribution can be related to leaf illumination, radial distribution can help with interpretation of remote sensing images, interception of water and eventually root distribution, frontal distribution ... are distribution in olive (Olea europea L.) trees in 0.5 m deep canopy layers (y in m2 0.5 m−1 ) Coef of the main equation Form of additional equations Coefficients of additional equations (x2 = total ... difficulty of applying these techniques to older trees arises because of the greater heterogeneity of canopy structure and of leaf distribution in older trees This study focused on the description of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... Introduction Two lines of chickens were created by divergent selection using proportion of abdominal fat in live weight of 9-wk-old males as the criterion Details about this experimental selection have ... remained constant between F7 and Fi 0; thus, F10 can be considered as similar to F7 (last generation of selection) The chickens were fed from hatching to wk on a starter diet containing 3,040 kcal of ... with a constant of proportionality M, (3) The effectiveness of growth decays with time according to an exponential decay whose constant is k Consequently, growth rate is given by equation : where...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... solution by exploitation of analytical output of generations of continuously modified design options It outsides the traditional design approach which is based on generation of single solution and ... deviation 50 lx) on working plane in the rear half of a normal office space After analyzing the influences of different components of a light-duct on daylight distribution, the opening design on the bottom ... limitations of the proposed method are analyzed and potential solutions are suggested The thesis concludes with suggestions for the practical application of the improved light-duct and discussion on...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:24

... Location of freight consolidation centre under freight consolidation construct 136 6.11.5 EFA: Geographical coverage under freight consolidation construct 138 6.11.6 EFA: Utilization of transport ... co-opetition construct 132 Figure 6.9: scree plot of communication management dimension under co-opetition construct 134 Figure 6.10: scree plot of location of freight consolidation ... consolidation construct 139 Table 6.20: EFA for utilization of transport modes under freight consolidation construct 141 Table 6.21: EFA for utilization of transport modes under freight consolidation...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2015, 14:01

... educational background of the respondents, it was observed that 88% of the respondents are middle pass (only class five) and are able to read and write Urdu language only Only 54 out of 150 respondents ... parts of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province Major reason of migration to Karachi was in search of job and business opportunities A sample size of 150 respondents (30 from each town) was selected on the ... gender of participants matter? The Journal of Political Economy, 106, 958-996 Woller, G and Parsons, R (2002) Assessing the community economic impact of microfinance institutions Journal of Developmental...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48

... the interaction between MT1-MMP ICD and GRASP55 and therefore its mutation to AAA573 could explain the reduction of the level of cell surface expression of this mutated version of MT1-MMP It ... function for GRASP55 as a molecular bridge between MT1-MMP and furin Disruption of the MT1-MMP interaction with GRASP55 only led to a small inhibition of pro-MT1MMP activation, suggesting that only ... furin-mediated activation of transmembrane substrates The activation of ADAM17 by furin [68] and our observation of an interaction between GRASP55 and the ICD of ADAM17 (C Roghi and L Jones, unpublished...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... mean + SE of three pools of four animals (tissues) or the mean of one pool of embryos or larva from one spawn Expression levels are related to 100 copies of GAPDH (B) Localization of Cg-Clp2 ... was based on the conserved amino acid sequences of the catalytic domain of members of the GH18 family resulted in the amplification of an expected 147 bp sequence Cloning and sequencing of this ... additional C-terminal sequence of about 90 amino acids of unknown function The high degree of identity of the Cg-Clp1 and Cg-Clp2 Glyco_18 domains (84% identity) argues for a conservation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 00:20

... repeated Using software created by Jonathan Meyer (who has collaborated on a number of projects), Zweig programmed the grammatical conventions and lexicon: But who is the author of these random, ... instrumentation? Do the mediated conditions change the nature of conversation for the participants and for those who listen or distractedly overhear? Within this thicket of questions, The Medium ... relocating trajectories of audience, spectatorship, collaboration, and participation.4 If the “death of the author” has become a common intellectual staple, the more recent theorization of the “mediated...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... studies of sustainable consumption have not sufficiently taken the role of lifestyle consumption into account Even though normative solutions on alterations of the production and consumption systems ... activities of many corporations are turning to the production of images instead of focussing on the production of material objects Moreover, in today’s economy the production and consumption of images ... environment and public health is the lack of understanding of lifestyle consumption This is to say that basically, as long as lifestyle consumption, aesthetic consumption and expressive consumption...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... the activation of transcription In addition, actin is required for the initiation of transcription through participation in the formation of PICs [17] These conclusions are based on the following ... II transcription initiation and elongation, either as a monomer or as a polymer Actin may modulate transcription as a monomeric component of transcription preinitiation, chromatin-remodeling ... transcription regulation B Zheng et al monomer availability Transcriptional regulation, mediated by cytoskeletal actin dynamics, can be attributed to modulation of the subcellular localization of transcriptional...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:20

... powerful inhibitor of Vps4p function in vivo This dominant-negative inhibition is rationalized on the basis of interaction of Vps4p–E233Q with wild-type Vps4p and assembly of catalytically inactive ... 746–753 22 Wang Q, Song C, Irizarry L, Dai R, Zhang X & Li CC (2005) Multifunctional roles of the conserved Arg residues in the second region of homology of p97 ⁄ valosincontaining protein J ... has a molecular mass of  92 kDa, which is consistent with the size of a dimer However, in the presence of ATP, the shift in the elution profile is consistent with formation of a higher order oligomer...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... Sections and present the model Section derives the information contagion Section demonstrates the herding behavior in response to information contagion and incorporates flight to quality Section ... correlation of bank loan returns The direction of information contagion, the localized nature of contagion and herding, and the welfare properties, are also characterized J.E.L Classification: G21, ... Hirschey, and Jones (1997), Slovin, Sushka, and Polonchek (1999) decisions, with the decision of one agent conveying information about some underlying economic variable to the next set of decision-makers...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... agreement with the secondary structure derived from the NMR structure of mBS [8] To allow a more accurate evaluation of the effect of single point mutations on the solution structure of monomeric derivatives, ... and the content of MxM is constant over several weeks Discussion In this work, we have investigated the effects of mutation of two paradigmatic residues involved in the dislocation of BS-RNase ... introduction of a Pro at position 19 in RNase A Surprisingly, the substitution of Pro19 by Ala does not affect the dislocation of N-termini in BS-RNase A Pro residue is often found in crucial regions of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... information, providing guidance toward design, implementations and utilization of information infrastructure for manufacturing The conference was sponsored by the International Federation of Information ... by an architectural description (AD) consisting of one or more models The viewpoints for use selected by an AD are typically based on consideration of the concerns of the stakeholders to whom ... rules that are part of the integration specification and constrain the choices of the entities involved in combinations of collaborations Figure The Sale collaboration in SimpleEconomy The above...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... Coaddition of the two antibodies resulted in the loss of bands C1, C2, and C3 (lane 13) In contrast, the use of a control monoclonal antibody against SREBP did not affect the formation of any of the ... relative to the start of transcription Examination of GC boxes by in vitro mutagenesis and transfection To define the contribution of these three GC boxes to DNase II expression in HL-60 cells, they ... deoxyribonuclease II J Biol Chem 273, 2610–2616 Chou, S.F., Chen, H.L & Lu, S.C (2002) Up-regulation of human deoxyribonuclease II gene expression during myelomonocytic differentiation of HL-60...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... a network of national contact points has been established, including national professionals of executive organisations responsible for the national funding processes43 This situation holds the ... can also be considered as a kind of prevention In this sense, it constitutes a part of health care in the domestic area One aim of health care is the prevention or early detection of specific ... cover longer distances Information, Learning and Education A typical risk of ageing is the loss of everyday competencies Considering that professional and familial support options are continuously...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20