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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Special delivery: A hardwood‐killing bark beetle vectors its unusual symbiote among host trees

Ecosphere
In mutualistic symbioses with fungi, herbivorous insects such as bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) gain access to resources that are unavailable in the absence of fungal mutualists, while fungi benefit from insect‐vectored dispersal ...
Debra L. Wertman, Richard C. Hamelin, Allan L. Carroll   +2 more
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A guide to Florida’s common bark and ambrosia beetles

EDIS, 2014
This 36-page guide provides an introduction to the biology and identification of Florida’s bark and ambrosia beetles. Written by Craig Bateman and Jiri Hulcr, and published by the UF Department of School of Forest Resources and Conservation, September ...
Craig Bateman, Jiri Hulcr
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The Growing Problem of the Spruce Bark Beetle

CHIMIA, 2023
The European spruce bark beetles release aggregation pheromones to trigger attack on Norway spruce trees; attracting beetles through the use of pheromone traps proves less effective than conventional forest management.    
Catherine E. Housecroft
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Correct Identity of the Oak Twig Pruner (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) [PDF]

, 2017
(excerpt) The oak twig pruner is a cerambycid of minor economic importance which is generally common through most of eastern North America. The adult beetles oviposit on living twigs of oak and other hardwoods, and the larvae bore within the twig ...
Gosling, D. C. L
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Ecological and social factors lead to variation in parental care between sexes in a burying beetle

Insect Science, EarlyView.
We experimentally investigated the effects of ecological (resource availability and interspecific competition) and social factors (intraspecific competition) on parental care and reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Our results showed that males and females adjust their parental care based on resource availability and ...
Donghui Ma, Long Ma, Jan Komdeur
wiley   +1 more source

Testing a trapping protocol for generic surveillance of wood-boring beetles in heterogeneous landscapes [PDF]

NeoBiota
Baited traps are a basic component of both specific and generic surveillance programs targeting wood-boring beetles at risk of introduction to new habitats because of global trade.
Giacomo Santoiemma, Andrea Battisti, Claudine Courtin, Gianfranco Curletti, Massimo Faccoli, Nina Feddern, Joseph A. Francese, Emily K. L. Franzen, Filippo Giannone, Martin M. Gossner, Chantelle Kostanowicz, Matteo Marchioro, Davide Nardi, Ann M. Ray, Alain Roques, Jon Sweeney, Kate Van Rooyen, Vincent Webster, Davide Rassati   +18 more
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting multi-taxa diversity patterns between abandoned and non-intensively managed forests in the southern Dolomites [PDF]

, 2017
The abandonment of silvicultural activities can lead to changes in species richness and composition of biological communities, when compared to those found in managed forests.
Campagnaro, T, Cassol, M, Cortivo, Md, Dainese, M, Gatti, E, Nascimbene, J., Padovan, F, Sitzia, T, Sommacal, M   +8 more
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Extreme Silk Toughness in Caerostris Spiders Is Limited to Adult Females

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We ask whether species with exceptionally tough silk, like Caerostris bark spiders, show different developmental patterns in silk toughness between ontogenetic stages and sexes. We found that only large females produce exceptionally tough silk with higher initial stiffness, while juvenile females as well as adult and juvenile males produce inferior ...
Matjaž Gregorič, Kuang‐Ping Yu, Jeremia Ravelojaona, Todd A. Blackledge, Matjaž Kuntner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source