plant adaptations in the tropical rainforest biome

... variation in the dominant species present in these forests: evergreen oaks in drier areas of southern Spain, deciduous oaks in southern France and in Italy, firs in the northern Appenines, pines in the ... understanding of the origins of the flora in the Mediterranean Basin and provides a fascinating setting for the study of plant evolution As Oleg Polunin (1980: 1) pointed out in the opening sentence ... variation in annual levels and timing of peak rainfall events Rainfall may be concentrated in the autumn, winter, or spring, depending on the region In the western Mediterranean, the peak rainfall...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:26

... stomatal density increased with increasing irradiance pointing out the large leaf plasticity of the species The increase in stomatal density may be related to the increase in light, promoting higher ... light-saturated photosynthesis Amaxa were rather low, but generally in the same range as those measured in other tropical rainforest seedlings and plants [18, 23, 38, 47, 72] A positive scaling of Amaxa ... allowing branching, while the latter in the understorey were expected to reach it later and at a larger height It is likely that the trees growing in the clearing displayed a shorter phase of installation...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... an m × n matrix of indeterminates and let K[x] denote the polynomial ring over K generated by these indeterminates Fix a second polynomial ring n in m indeterminates over the same field: K[p] ... called the weight of e • it is d-equidistant, for some d > 0, i.e the sum of the edges in the path from the root to every leaf is precisely d • the sum of the weights of all edges in the path ... shown that the m-dissimilarity vector of a phylogenetic tree T with n leaves gives a point in the tropical Grassmannian Gm,n , and therefore gives rise to a tropical linear space The combinatorial...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:20

... to find a place to enter the seeds; usually they remain underneath the seed where the eggs were laid).) In order to determine how much selected lines diverged from each other in traits affecting ... imposed The mean percentages of eggs laid on chickpeas in the Cicer lines, no matter what the treatment or the rearing host were, were higher than those in the Phaseolus lines This finding was ... recognized by the ’windows’ on the seed testa becoming black; otherwise the windows are grey.) At that time, beans and chickpeas were separated In replicate lines (the ’choice Phaseolus lines’), bean...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... contact the principal author in order to find out more information about the qualifications of the practitioners involved Prior to contacting the principal researchers the president of the WFC-affiliated ... based on the preliminary findings provided by Terrett's previous work [6] and the present prospective review, further investigation, aimed towards determining the extent to which the inappropriate ... to say it might also be informative, in determining whether any bias exists, to look at whether the term and title are also being inappropriately used in studies documenting some patient benefit...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... governing the development of plants structure in Thanh Hoa City 2.3 Assessing the actual development status of the plant structure including crop types, crop varieties and cropping and intercropping ... development, increasing total product value, increase the value of goods, increase income and improve the lives of people 1.1.2 The factors governing the formation of plant structure Plant structure ... region is the home to many small lakes and tributaries flowing through The flow of Ma river formed an arc flowingin the midle of the city and hugging the City in the south side from the northwest...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2015, 15:48

... forests on the eastern end was included in the Sinharaja reserve, raising the total 14 land area to 11,187 In 1985, the Forest Department established a live forest boundary by 15 planting Pinus caribaea ... pre-determined number of axes 32 Species scores were plotted in the same ordination plot in sample space Sample localities are represented as points in which the distance between points in the ordination ... Kanneliya and Kottawa These 14 studies highlighted the importance of the remaining rainforests of the wet zone for the 15 conservation of woody plant, animal diversity and for the protection of watersheds...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:49

... for their inseparable support My Father, HE Xizhong, in the first place is the person who put the fundament for my learning character, showing me the joyness of intellectual pursuit ever since ... received increasing attention from the second half of the 20th century Over 100,000 chemicals were registered in the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances (EINECS) in 1981 The latest ... replaced by lindane in North America and Western Europe in the 1970s and then in China (1983), Russia (1990) and India after 1990 (Li et al., 1998; Willet et al., 1998) Since then, lindane has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:15

... Oniticellini Oniticellini Oniticellini Onitini Onitini Onitini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini ... of the Scarabaeinae beetles recorded in Sri Lanka Tribe Genus Species Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Canthonini Coprini Coprini ... Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini Onthophagini...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 06:37

... towering peaks lined-up at the perimeters of the province except for the wide basin of flatland at the southeast The topography of Northern Thailand is mainly delineated by the upper reaches of the ... Results indicate that soil moisture is more variable during the latter half of the year, that is, the months spanning the wet season and the drying down inter-season thereafter This finding of the ... 2.3 The effect of changing each component of the scale triplet (a) Original data, (b) the effect of increasing support, (c) the effect of increasing spacing, and (d) the effect of decreasing...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:38

... develop in the understory and retain low diameter growth rates even once installed in the canopy In contrast, FL species display higher growth rates in the large diameter classes than in the small ... discrimination (∆) and intrinsic water-use efficiency (WUE = A/gs ) for potted seedlings of 22 tropical rainforest species grown in non-limiting environmental conditions in a glasshouse (n = to 11 plants ... economics may therefore allow improvements of the interpretation of functional differences among tropical rainforest tree species In order to understand the origin of the strong variability in ∆ among...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... concentration in giant reed as a result of Run 6, indicating that the cadmium was highly concentrated in the rhizome The transportation index, Ti, indicates the ability of the plant to translocate the ... concentrations in culture broth in Run to are shown in Fig More than 60% of cadmium was removed within days in every run Assuming the zero-order kinetics, the average cadmium removal rates within the days ... observed Furthermore, the particular effect of the cadmium addition on the appearance of the plant body was not observed during days in runs to Assimilation of cadmium in giant reed Fig shows the cadmium...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... account the phases of treatment and processing of fuel burned into the energy plant (see Figure 2) Figure Scheme of the energy plant under analysis The system boundary is defined knowing that the input ... transformed in the de-oiled pomace and qualifies as a renewable fuel in the Italian normative Decree 152/06 The virgin pomace is produced in the plant near the site of energy plant, so that the impact ... objective of the drying is to block the fermentation processes that happened in the virgin pomace and further allow the extraction of pomace oil In Table the inventory per kg of the dry pomace...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... permanently withdraw into the ferrule if the epoxy holding the fibers creep If the initial fiber height is too recessed into the ferrule, the fiber may creep too far back into the ferrule causing loss of ... optical fiber, the region on the right is the ferrule, and the thin section in the middle is the epoxy Notice how the fiber is lower than the ferrule in the right photo This is the phenomenon ... and the importance of physical contact have been defined, we can discuss issues concerning these properties in APC connectors in the outside plant The effort to maintain physical contact in APC...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 18:15

... offset measures the location of the “dome” produced during the polishing process The dome locations must line up when mating to another connector, serving as the foundation for permitting core-to-core ... ensure the two fiber cores come in proper contact – and remain in contact Enhancing Angle-Polished Connector (APC) Performance in the Outside Plant (OSP) Preventing Ferrule Rotation Forcing the ... back to their original position (the position in which they were originally polished) following any rotation guarantees that apex measurements will be maintained throughout the life of the connector...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 20:15

... Graph showing theduring thein the monthly average maxiGraph showing the variation in the monthly average maximum temperature during the study period Figure barometric pressure during in study ... occur in these climatic conditions is not known The 10 11 12 13 14 Figure during showing period Graph the studythe variation in the monthly average rainfall Graph showing the variation in the monthly ... to explore the exact mechanisms involved Figure relative humidity during the in the monthly Graph showing the variationstudy period average morning Graph showing the variation in the monthly...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... to these interfaces is located in the PYR and middle domains The interface contains 10 hydrogen bonds in IPDC The dimer–dimer interface in IPDC is smaller than the corresponding interface in ... orientation of the aminopyrimidine ring, are conserved in all ThDP-dependent enzymes One of these, the hydrogen bond between the N1¢ atom of the pyrimidine ring of ThDP and the side chain of an invariant ... Enterobacter cloacae The PYR domain is shown in blue, the middle domain in green and the PP domain in red The secondary structure elements are labelled as defined in Fig The cofactor ThDP and the magnesium...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... periodical shaking Then, the suspension was placed on ice for h, which stabilizes the thermo-labile bond between the cobalt atom of Cbl and the amino group At that point the matrix can be either used ... signicantly lower for the plant source In addition, the purication technique for IF from plants was simpler due to expression of the protein in the unsaturated apo-form in contrast with the B12 saturated ... quite close to the theoretically predicted coefcient In other words, all molecules of the puried protein contained bound Cbl Other extinction coefcients of recombinant IF from plants (Fig 2)...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... 2.2 Amino Acids, Proline, and Amides It has been reported that amino acids (such as alanine, arginine, glycine, serine, leucine, and valine, the nonprotein amino acids citrulline and ornithine ... many mRNAs is suppressed and the expression of a certain set of genes including the luminal binding protein gene BiP is induced The underlying mechanisms of UPR in yeasts and mammals have been ... of the proline synthesizing enzymes 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase (P5CR) and the ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) In contrast, the activity of the proline degrading enzyme proline dehydrogenase...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... directly investigate the fate of As in the rhizosphere we highlight in the following the major processes taking place in the rhizosphere to assess the potential interactions with the fate of As in the ... processes involved in As transformation in the soil Á/ rhizosphere Á /plant system Rhizosphere interac- tions are deemed to play a key role in controlling bioavailability to crop plants (Hinsinger, ... disaster in southern Spain (Pain et al., 1998) Drinking of As-contaminated groundwater is perhaps the most common exposure pathway of humans to As toxicity The biggest known As calamity occurred in the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:49