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Predictors of Wing Attacks by Birds Across Australian Butterflies. [PDF]

open access: yesEcol Evol
Predation pressure can vary latitudinally and across different prey communities as well as between males and females of the same prey species. Here, the variation in predation pressure on Australian butterflies was assessed using wing damage caused by bird attacks in over 2310 individuals from five butterfly families.
Daluwatta Galappaththige HSS   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Root System Radius of Three Cycas Species

open access: yesHortScience, 2022
Knowledge about the position of tree roots is needed to understand tree biology and inform management decisions. Cycad species produce pachycaul stems and are not represented in the published studies on the relationships between aboveground tree traits ...
Thomas E. Marler, Gil N. Cruz
doaj   +1 more source

Does Phytogeography Change with Shifts in Geopolitics? The Curious Case of Cycads in the United States

open access: yesDiversity, 2020
The United States is currently home to five native cycad species. We provide a discussion on these five cycad species to illuminate how evolutionary and geopolitical processes influence phytogeography and published checklists of threatened plants.
Benjamin E. Deloso   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Zamia magnifica (Zamiaceae, Cycadales): A New Rupicolous Cycad Species from Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico

open access: yesTaxonomy, 2023
Zamia magnifica (Zamiaceae), a new species endemic to Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico, is described. Zamia magnifica is characterized by having a rupicolous habit, pendent leaves bearing leaflets that are densely tomentose and pink to caramel in color when ...
Miguel Angel Pérez-Farrera   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kampō medicine and Muro disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex)

open access: yeseNeurologicalSci, 2020
Western Pacific Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Parkinsonism-dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) is a disappearing neurodegenerative disease in three former high-incidence foci of Guam-USA, Papua-Indonesia and Kii Peninsula, Honshu Island, Japan.
Peter S. Spencer   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aulacaspis yasumatsui Delivers a Blow to International Cycad Horticulture

open access: yesHorticulturae, 2021
The literature covering the biology, invasion chronology, host plant responses, and control efforts of the armored scale Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Hempitera: Diaspididae) is reviewed.
Thomas E. Marler   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Publishing trends for the Cycadales, the most threatened plant group

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2016
Trends in published cycad research within various fields of study were determined using proceedings from international conferences on cycad biology and Google Scholar to access the primary literature.
April N. Cascasan, Thomas E. Marler
doaj   +1 more source

MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS ON SADF GROUND

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2012
4 SA Infantry Battalion cycad memorial This unit unveiled the cycad memorial at 4 SAl Bn on 11 November 1983. The memorial was erected in honour of all those members of 4 SAl and the Middelburg Community that have offered their lives in the defence of ...
A. Kruger
doaj   +1 more source

Artifleck: The Study of Artifactual Responses to Light Flecks with Inappropriate Leaves

open access: yesPlants, 2020
Methods in sunfleck research commonly employ the use of experimental leaves which were constructed in homogeneous light. These experimental organs may behave unnaturally when they are challenged with fluctuating light.
Thomas E. Marler
doaj   +1 more source

Reciprocal Garden Study Reveals Acute Spatial-Edaphic Adaptation for Cycas micronesica

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
A long-term reciprocal garden study was used to determine adaptive variation between Cycas micronesica K.D. Hill plants from north versus south Guam.
Thomas E. Marler
doaj   +1 more source

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