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Creating a Translational Medicine Ontology
AbstractWe, participants in the Translational Medicine Ontology activity of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG...
Received 24 August 2009 19:59 UTC; Posted 26 August 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Bioinformatics
Short and long distance translocations: Movement and survival in eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina)
Background/Question/MethodsHuman development represents a serious threat to wildlife populations through continued habitat loss and incidental mortality from construction activities. Resourc…
Received 22 August 2009 17:05 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Habitat use of Northern Map Turtles (Graptemys geographica) in an altered system, the Susquehanna River, Maryland (USA)
Background/Question/MethodsRiverine turtle populations are declining worldwide and many of these species have been extirpated from large areas of their range. In Maryland, the northern map …
Received 22 August 2009 23:03 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Root-associated fungal communities colonizing two dominant semiarid grasses: Hilaria sp. and Stipa sp.
We conducted a preliminary survey of the fungal communities associated with roots of Stipa hymenoides and Hilaria jamesii, two grasses native to the southwestern United States. Root samples from 10…
Received 22 August 2009 21:41 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology
GillespieSSA: A user-friendly stochastic simulation package for R
GillespieSSA is a package for the statistical computing and graphics language and environment R. GillespieSSA provides a simple to use and extensible interface to several stochastic simulation algo…
Received 21 August 2009 17:49 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Changes in Simpson’s Diversity Index in Microcosms Impacted with Monosodium Methane Arsenate
The objective of our studies is to analyze environmental impacts of Monosodium Methane Arsenate, MSMA, on aquatic habitats using the Aqua-Terra microcosm system. MSMA was applied at environmentally…
Received 20 August 2009 18:57 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Invasive Plant (Microstegium vimineum) Reduces Abundance and Richness of Insect Communities
Plant invasions are known to have negative impacts on native plant communities, yet their effects on higher trophic levels have not been well documented. Past studies investigating the effects of i…
Received 18 August 2009 23:38 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Decadal-scale changes in seagrass coverage on the Mississippi barrier islands, northern Gulf of Mexico
Seagrasses provide habitat for a wide variety of aquatic species, and reduce coastal erosion via sediment stabilization. The areal coverage of seagrass beds on the Mississippi barrier islands appea…
Received 21 August 2009 14:26 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
Competition between spiders and pitcher plants? Prey availability and trophic interactions in bogs
Web-building spiders (e.g. Frontinella communis and Neriene radiata) and northern pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea) are co-occurring sit-and-wait predators that may compete for shared arth…
Received 20 August 2009 18:46 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Bottom-up and top-down effects on algal community dynamics in an aridland river: the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico
Background/Question/MethodsIn this study, we examined interactive effects of nutrient availability, river flow and food web structure on algal growth and species composition in the Middle Rio G…
Received 20 August 2009 20:40 UTC; Posted 20 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
