Manitoba Black Guillemot Specimen

Arctic sea ice a major determinant in Mandt's black guillemot movement and distribution during non-breeding season.

Mandt's black guillemot (Cepphus grylle mandtii) is one of the few seabirds associated in all seasons with Arctic sea ice, a habitat that is changing rapidly. Recent decreases in summer ice have reduced breeding success and colony size of this species in Arctic Alaska. Little is known about the species' movements and distribution during the nine month non-breeding period (September-May), when c...

Mimeault , Valérie Paquet , Franco Lepore and Jean - Paul Guillemot

2002;545;987-996; originally published online Nov 8, 2002; J. Physiol. Daniel Mimeault, Valérie Paquet, Franco Lepore and Jean-Paul Guillemot Phase-disparity coding in extrastriate area 19 of the cat This information is current as of April 16, 2008 publication unless article is open access. This version of the article may not be posted on a public website for 12 months after http://jp.physoc.or...

Allegations prompt Manitoba pathology probes.

Needs-based planning: the case of Manitoba.

OBJECTIVE To illustrate the use of needs-based planning in the identification of physician surpluses and deficits and of resource misallocations within a provincial medical system at a time when provincial governments and medical associations across the country are faced with funding constraints for physician services. DESIGN For each of 4 regions in Manitoba, the authors analysed residents' ...

Georeferencing Animal Specimen Datasets

For biodiversity research, the field of study that is concerned with the biological diversity of our planet, it is of utmost importance that the location of an animal specimen find is known with high precision. Due to specimens often having been collected over the course of many years, their accompanying geographical data is often ambiguous or may be very imprecise. In this contribution, we det...