Quercus banatus grows in Slovenia

A 20-Year Overview of Quercus robur L. Mortality and Crown Conditions in Slovenia

Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) forests in Slovenia are experiencing widespread mortality. Changes in lowlands are reflected in decline of complete forest complexes, high mortality, uneven stand structure and associated forest regeneration problems. Prediction of the present-tree response in disturbed forest ecosystems may significantly contribute to better guideline policies for the silvicu...

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy

Quercus nigra and Quercus alba

lnvestigaltons into the nature of desiccation-sensitive, or recalcitant, seed behavior have as yet failed to identify exact causes of this phenomenon. Experiments with Quercus nigra L. and Quercus alba L. were conducted to examine physiological and biochemical changes brought about by seed desiccation and to determine if there were predictable changes in seed moisture content, m enthalpy (heat ...

Rift grows in GM debate

Although first generation genetically modified crops are now the norm in many parts of the world, researchers have failed to convince the public of their benefits and lack of environmental damage in other regions, including Europe. In spite of increasing hopes for the potential in GM crops, particularly in the wake of this year's hike in foodstuff prices, Britain's Prince Charles mounted a stro...

Bioethics Grows Up

W hen I taught my first course in bioethics to first-year students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring semester of 1981, bioethics was still in its formative years. There were scant few textbooks around and even fewer anthologies, and I could not assume that any of my students had ever read anything by a bioethicist or about bioethics. The key institutions ...