Editorial: Giant Oaks from Little Acorns Grow

From little acorns to tall oaks: from boranes through organoboranes.

From Little Acorns – The mental health service user movement

In the summer of 1985, service user activists from the United Kingdom met activists from other countries at the Mind/World Federation of Mental Health Congress in Brighton, a coming together that underlined the potential for collective campaigning in this country. That autumn’s Annual Mind Conference in Kensington Town Hall was the first national mental health event at which service users made ...

From little things big things grow: . . .

Oaks, acorns, and the geographical ecology of acorn woodpeckers

We investigated the geographical ecology of acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus) using 30 years of Audubon Christmas Bird Counts and data on the diversity and abundance of oaks. Spatial autocorrelation in acorn woodpecker population densities is not significantly greater than zero both in either the southwestern United States, where populations are often locally isolated, or along the Pa...

Acorns containing deeper plumule survive better: how white oaks counter embryo excision by rodents

Several squirrel species excise the embryo of acorns of most white oak species to arrest germination for long-term storage. However, it is not clear how these acorns counter embryo excision and survive in the arms race of coevolution. In this study, we simulated the embryo excision behavior of squirrels by removing 4 mm of cotyledon from the apical end of white oak acorns differing in embryo de...