Adelie penguin colonies were surveyed throughout ice-free areas Face Masks in Amundsen Bay, Enderby Land, from a helicopter on 23 December 1998.The locality and number of breeding pairs of three newly discovered colonies, in addition to a known colony are described.In Porcelain Holder total, about 9760 pairs of Adelie penguins breed in the four col
Plant-mediated RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as a promising technology for insect control.The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, feeds on over 400 species of host plants.Brassica napus (rape) is the second most important oilseed crop worldwide.Myzus persicae is highly reproductive and causes severe damage to the rape plants due to its quite f
Abstract Background Relationships of power, responsibility and accountability between health systems actors are considered central to health governance.Despite increasing attention to the role of accountability in health governance a gap remains in understanding how local accountability relations function within the health system in Central Asia.Th
Braided river floodplains are highly dynamic ecosystems, where aquatic communities are strongly regulated by the hydrologic regime.So far, however, understanding of how flow variation influences assembly mechanisms remains limited.We collected benthic chironomids and oligochaetes over a year across a lateral connectivity gradient in the semi-natura