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Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Cold tolerance strategies in plants vary from structural to biochemical permitting many plants to survive and grow on sites that experience freezing conditions intermittently. Although tree ferns occur predominantly across the tropics, they also occur in temperate zones and occasionally in areas that experience sub‐zero temperatures, and how these ...
James M. R. Brock   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Missing women in colonial India

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We construct novel data on female population shares by age, district, and religion in South Asia from 1881 to 1931. Sex ratios skew male in Northern India and are more balanced in Southern and Eastern India, including Burma. Male‐biased sex ratios emerge most visibly after age 10, and this is not specific to any one region, religion, or time ...
James Fenske   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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