Biological Sciences
epub |eng | 2022-08-02 | Author:Kristin Ohlson [Ohlson, Kristin]

Chapter 6 I’ll Take My Coffee with Birds Ivette Perfecto raps her knuckles on the enormous sope tree shading the nearby coffee plants, as vigorously as if she is knocking ...
( Category: Ecology September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-03-30 | Author:Angela E. Douglas; [Douglas;, Angela E.]

Although microbial partners have been proposed to promote insect utilization of various plant tissues that are well defended by toxic secondary compounds, the evidence is generally fragmentary and contradictory. Exceptionally, ...
( Category: Entomology September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Durrell, Gerald [Durrell, Gerald]

Fables, Facts and Files ‘This beast has a stone in its eye, also called a Yena, which is believed to make a person able to foresee the future if he ...
( Category: Wildlife September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-26 | Author:Nicklas Brendborg [Brendborg, Nicklas]

Chapter 15 Hiding in Plain Sight When the United States began vaccinating against the measles virus in the 1960s, children fortunately stopped getting measles. But that wasn’t the only thing; ...
( Category: Developmental Biology September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Luke O’Neill [O’Neill, Luke]

WE TASTE FOOD THROUGH TASTE BUDS ON OUR TONGUES BUT WE ALSO USE OUR SENSE OF SMELL. Studies have also shown that babies born to mothers who have diets high ...
( Category: Dinosaurs September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-13 | Author:Benedict Macdonald [Macdonald, Benedict]

CHAPTER SEVEN Trees It is said we must plant more trees. But which ones? And should we plant them at all – or let them plant themselves? Whilst it has ...
( Category: Wildlife September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-15 | Author:H.H. Shugart [Shugart, H.H.]

Figure 30. Extinction pattern of birds in New Zealand. The shaded portions of the circles indicate the proportion of the species and subspecies found in each habitat that became extinct ...
( Category: Wildlife September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Peter P. Marra & Chris Santella [Marra, Peter P. & Santella, Chris]

In Australia a very different ethos is guiding free-range cat management strategies, as government officials rally to save a host of endangered endemic species from extinction. Domestic cats arrived on ...
( Category: Mammals September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Brackenbury [Brackenbury, John]

I am wary of that well-known saying ‘what does not kill you makes you stronger’ which sounds artificial and glib and often turns out to be catastrophically wrong. But on ...
( Category: Butterflies September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-21 | Author:Robert G. Foottit & Peter H. Adler [Foottit Robert G. & Adler Peter H.]

* Aguiar et al. (2013), slightly updated. †L. Vilhelmsen (personal communication, July 2014). ‡ C. Azevedo (personal communication, July 2014). § Yu et al. (2012). ¶ L. Masner (personal ...
( Category: Entomology September 20,2022 )