13. When animals face a food vs. cover trade-off, a decrease in the availability of foraging habitats should increase the strength of selection for these habitats at the expense of cover habitats, which leads to a negative functional
An aeromycological study and health survey were conducted in two different habitats namely, Pearsonpally (a tribal dominated area) andSimantapally (a non-tribal area) in and around Santiniketan, West Bengal to fulfil the following two objectives: (i) to identify the pathogenic airborne fungal ...
Odonates are highly vulnerable to wetland degradation as their larvae depend on freshwater habitats for food, and therefore, the presence of odonates can be used as an indicator of water quality3,4,7,8. Although odonates share similar slender body plans, dragonflies differ from damselflies in ...
Functioning of different ecosystems over the landscapes is connected to different dynamics of gas exchange between the atmosphere as the major temporary exchange sink/source of gases, and the whole ecosystem. In carbon cycle, involving biogenic processes, there are important fluxes of methane (CH4) a...
Diversity and abundance of lice on Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus and Red-capped Lark Calandrella cinerea in two ecologically different habitats in cen... Parasites play an important role in ecosystems including shaping the populations and communities of their hosts. Majority of arthropod parasites...
Hydrologic Characterization of Desert Soils with Varying Degrees of Pedogenesis: 2. Inverse Modeling for Effective Properties To understand their relation to pedogenic development, soil hydraulic properties in the Mojave Desert were investi- gated for three deposit types: (i) rece... BB Mirus,KS Per...
Our results suggest that habitats with dynamic wildlife populations simultaneously facilitate diversity of parasites such as helminths and ticks. Counterintuitively, higher rodent diversity inhibits B. burgdorferi sensu lato infection within N. fuscipes, a rodent host which has been found to be a ...
Assessing flood risk is an interdisciplinary task, combining various sources and types of information and models. Such assessments attempt to estimate, a priori, what possible flood events may look like (i.e. flood extent and inundation depth), how probable they are and what are the possible co...
stress category (139). This distribution of genes might be reflective of the habitats ofC. sphaerospermumin which the fungus has to combat with osmotic imbalance1. The osmotic responses ofC. sphaerospermumUM 843 are further discussed in the subsection of “Fungal adaptation and stress responses”...
A further northward shift of the rear edge of the distribution caused by loss of suitable habitats is predicted in the near future in a recent modelling study (Kramer et al., 2010). In this scenario, information on the relationship between pollen- mediated gene flow and isolation is essential...