Once aboard a host, chiggers may move around for some time, before attaching at a suitable site to feed [9]. The larva attaches by means of its sharp mouth parts (chelicerae) and develops a characteristic feeding tube (stylostome) over several hours. The stylostome is formed by the chigg...
Plant resources gathered from the wild are important sources of livelihood needs, especially for low-income populations living in remote areas, who rely on these plants for food, fuelwood, medicine and building materials. Yadong County is a valley at the
Herbal medicine has been used for the treatment of human and livestock ailments since ancient times. Numerous rural and urban communities in Ethiopia practice traditional medicine and transfer the knowledge verbally from generation to generation. Thus, t
Mesquite shrubs are scatted through the grassland. Full size image Unlike in California, however, the arrival of European settlers, livestock, and associated organisms did not quickly rearrange the southwest’s native vegetation. Scholars believe that the first cattle entered the region with the exped...
My girls want to move further down the row, but I keep us in the shade, the brute sun sure to transform the fun of berry picking into absolute drudgery. After we fill our quart and before we wander back to the tea house replete with spinning fans and cups of ice water, I take a ...
Similarly, shrubs had the largest live BGB, whereas HLV had the least. There were evident differences between the three communities in TB (including total dead biomass). The total live biomass were 140.05, 117.05 and 82.97 g m–2 in EDC, STC and ASC, respectively, most of which was ...
Such fires would also have favored the proliferation of shade intolerant, fire-adapted oaks at the expense of shade-tolerant conifers. This would have increased the amount of oaks on the landscape and, critically, the acorns they produce (Dey 2002; Lear and Brose 2002; Klimaszewski-Patterson ...
My girls want to move further down the row, but I keep us in the shade, the brute sun sure to transform the fun of berry picking into absolute drudgery. After we fill our quart and before we wander back to the tea house replete with spinning fans and cups of ice water, I take a ...
(such as less leaf litter or shade) can produce undesirable effects (such as increased aero-allergens) for different sites, scales and social groups. Thus, key questions remain in urban design and planning as to how to invest in green urban infrastructure in ways which incorporate the large ...
The final article in a series of three publications examining the global distribution of 41 dominant vector species (DVS) of malaria is presented here. The first publication examined the DVS from the Americas, with the second covering those species prese