Using a well-studied wild deer population from Scotland with genomic data, this paper finds effects of homozygosity on offspring survival, birth weight, juvenile survival and other components of fitness. Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Charlesworth, D. & Willis, J. H. The ...
In north Scotland, annual survival of wild-fledged birds was low for first-year birds compared to other Scottish populations and second-year survival declined over time. In north Scotland, 40% of 103 red kites found dead were killed illegally, mainly by direct poisoning. In the absence of ...
Scotland—its nearest European neighbour—Iceland has remained throughout its history very much a part of European civilization. TheIcelandic sagas, most of which recount heroic episodes that took place at the time the island was settled, are regarded as among the finest literary achievements of ...
by Historic Environment Scotland; S.V. and E.V.V. by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education (075-15-2022-328); and V.M. by the Science Committee, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (AR08856925). V.A. is supported by a Lundbeckfonden ...
The results reinforce the need for a conservation policy that embraces change over time. Investigations of quantitative characters have demonstrated the existence of substantial local adaptation of plant populations within Scotland. This has implications for conservation management involving transplantation and ...
Interestingly, treatment of helminth infections in red grouse in Scotland and in Soay sheep in St. Kilda reduces dramatic host population cycling. A more stable population may be easier to manage; therefore, the treatment of endemic macroparasite infections can have great conservation value. VI.D....
The national data from a Scotland cohort analysis sug- gested that Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization when compared to Delta [59]. In the US, a retrospective cohort study conducted on 577,938 patients during the period when Delta and ...
The legislatures of Scotland and Wales, with a combined population roughly equal to London's, are much more powerful. 苏格兰和威尔士的人口之和与伦敦的差不多,但它们的立法机构权力要大得多。 article.yeeyan.org 2. Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brookl...
Today very few people──less than 2% of the population are farmers and farm workers. England has the most people. About 46 million live in England. Of these, about 14 million people live in London and the southeast. London is now a city of about 7 million people. Most of Scotland’s...
The impact of the abrupt 8.2 ka cold event on the Mesolithic population of western Scotland: a Bayesian chronological analysis using ‘activity events’ as a population proxy. J. Archaeol. Sci. 45, 240–269 (2014). Article Google Scholar Lorenzen, E. D. et al. Species-specific responses...