Diversity enhances community recovery, but not resistance, after drought

Propranolol but not Naloxone Enhances Spinal Reflex

Marc J. Rogers, Zhiying Xiao, Bing Shen, Jicheng Wang, Zeyad Schwen, 3 James R. Roppolo, William C. de Groat, Changfeng Tai 4 5 6 Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 15213 7 Department of Urology, The Second Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, P.R. China 8 Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 9 USA, 15213 ...

Evaluating Drought Resistance and Recovery of Cool-Season Fairway Grasses

Bentgrass species are widely utilized on golf course fairways in cool climatic regions. Among the 200 species of bentgrass that exist, creeping (A. stolonifera), colonial (A. capillaris), and velvet (A. canina) bentgrasses have received the greatest breeding improvements and are the most widely utilized Agrostis species for turf. Each bentgrass species retains particular qualities relating to d...

Upslope treadmill exercise enhances motor axon regeneration but not functional recovery following peripheral nerve injury.

Following peripheral nerve injury, moderate daily exercise conducted on a level treadmill results in enhanced axon regeneration and modest improvements in functional recovery. If the exercise is conducted on an upwardly inclined treadmill, even more motor axons regenerate successfully and reinnervate muscle targets. Whether this increased motor axon regeneration also results in greater improvem...

Tree Diversity Enhances Stand Carbon Storage but Not Leaf Area in a Subtropical Forest

Research about biodiversity-productivity relationships has focused on herbaceous ecosystems, with results from tree field studies only recently beginning to emerge. Also, the latter are concentrated largely in the temperate zone. Tree species diversity generally is much higher in subtropical and tropical than in temperate or boreal forests, with reasons not fully understood. Niche overlap and t...

Disturbance alters beta-diversity but not the relative importance of community assembly mechanisms