A New Biennial-Fruited Oak

Seed dispersal of fleshy-fruited environmental weeds in New Zealand

Fruit-eating animals play a key role in spreading non-native environmental weeds, via seed ingestion and subsequent dispersal. We reviewed available information on dispersal of fleshy-fruited environmental weeds in New Zealand. We found almost a third (32.9%) of 295 environmental weed species in New Zealand have fleshy fruits adapted for internal dispersal by animals. Fruiting phenology differs...

Biennial Bibliography

The oak processionary moth: a new health hazard?

British Journal of General Practice, August 2015 435 InTroduCTIon Although a native of southern Europe, the thermophilic oak processionary moth (OPM, Thaumetopoea processionea) is expanding its prevalence to encompass Central and Northern Europe. Roughly, over the past decade, the moth’s range has spread northwards and the species has now became established in the warmer regions of Northern Fra...

Sudden Oak Death, a New Forest Disease in California

A forest disease caused by a newly described pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum, is presently affecting a number of woody plant species in central and northern coastal California and southern Oregon, U.S.A. Among the most severely affected tree species are coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, and tanoak, Lithocarpus densiflorus. In March 2000, we established plots in Marin County, CA, to assess sympt...

Biennial Report on Carcinogens

The disposition of 5-fluorouracil (FUra) was studied in 19 colorectal cancer patients dunrng treatment with FUra and high-dose leucovorin (LV) with or without interferon x2a (IFN-a). All received LV 200 mg mIover 2 h. then FUra 400 mg m-2 over 5 min then FUra 400 mgm ' over 22 h. repeated on day 2. on a 14 day cycle. Nine patients also received IFN-a 6 MU every 48 h, starting at least 2 weeks b...