Bali's Endangered White Starling

The Frank--Starling curve.

A basic property of the normal heart is that if its volume is increased, there is an increase in the strength of the contraction. The phenomenon is known as Starling's Law, and as the FrankStarling mechanism. This phenomenon is of great importance. If the heart were unable to increase its output when distended, the distension would become progressively severe. The underlying important relation ...

The Reunion Starling

Endangered languages, endangered knowledge

ogist, and ethnobiologist. She is cofounder and President of Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity. Terralingua is an international NGO based in Washington, DC, devoted to supporting the world’s linguistic diversity and to exploring the links between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity, through research, information, education, and policy. She is editor of...

Endangered species and endangered knowledge

The recent discovery of a new species of land iguana in the Galapagos (Tzika et al. 2008; Gentile et al. 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009) is indeed an exciting novelty, of great interest to all zoologists and evolutionary biologists. This species being apparently represented only by a very small population with a very limited range, it was described as a new taxon following an unusual procedure: no ...

Principles of Human Physiology (Starling)