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Factors influencing impala distribution patterns in Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Monitoring the distribution of wild animals using appropriate methods and survey techniques is essential not only for sustainable management but also to avoid wastage of resources. This study appli…
Received 22 September 2009 14:21 UTC; Posted 22 September 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
Eutrophication: Can nanophosphorous control this menace?
Eutrophication is a threat to quality of surface and ground water bodies (SWB) and to bio-diversity of the aquatic eco-system. One of the causes of P accumulation in SWB is its excess application a…
Received 15 September 2009 05:18 UTC; Posted 16 September 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Ecology, Earth & Environment
Frequency-dependent selection predicts patterns of radiations and biodiversity
Most empirical studies support a decline in speciation rates through time, although evidence for constant speciation rates also exists. Declining rates have been explained by invoking niche-filling…
Received 12 September 2009 05:41 UTC; Posted 14 September 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
Dating the cyanobacterial ancestor of the chloroplast
Cyanobacteria have played a pivotal role in the history of life on Earth being the first organism to carry out oxygenic photosynthesis, which changed atmospheric chemistry and allowed the evolution…
Received 28 August 2009 00:44 UTC; Posted 28 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology, Evolutionary Biology
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
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
Ecological dynamics and the basis of sympatric phenotypic diversification
Theoretical and empirical studies are showing evidence in support of evolutionary branching and sympatric speciation due to frequency‐dependent competition. However, phenotypic diversification due …
Received 21 August 2009 17:39 UTC; Posted 24 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
Modeling forest insect population dynamics
Overview of the Special Interdisciplinary Minisymposium at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology on modeling of forest insect population dynamics.
Received 17 August 2009 20:14 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Urban Ecosystems: Alterations to Peakflow, Microclimate and the Natural Environment
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urbanized ecosystems. Continued human population growth over the next several decades will place unprecedented demand on urban water resources,...
Received 14 August 2009 01:39 UTC; Posted 14 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
Survey of the diagenesis process and effect these process on reservoir quality of the Kangan formation in South Pars Field
Kangan and Upper Dalan formations are forming reservoir sequence of the South Pars field. Litology of the kangan formation is carbonate and (limestone and dolomite with anhydrite intervals), so dig…
Received 01 August 2009 10:28 UTC; Posted 06 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
