Scorpionfishes of New Zealand (Pisces: Scorpaenidae)

Behavioral ecology of young-of-the-year kelp rockfish, Sebastes atrovirens Jordan and Gilbert (Pisces: Scorpaenidae).

Young-of-the-year (YOY) kelp rockfish, Sebastes atrovirens, recruit initially to the canopy of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera (L.), along the coast of central California. During the summer of 1991, I observed major fluctuations in YOY kelp rockfish abundance in the canopy before the onset of a vertical migration downward to the Macrocystis holdfasts. Within the Macrocystis canopy, YOY kel...

A New Species of Scorpaenodes (Pisces: Scorpaenidae) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands with Discussions of the Limits of Scorpaenodes and Thysanichthys

Scorpaenodes rubrivinctus sp. nov. is described from seven specimens taken at the Galápagos Islands, bringing the number of scorpaenids known from the archipelago to 15 species in eight genera. The new species was observed and photographed at 203–412 m, often in association with sponges, and collected during two expeditions using the deepwater submersible Johnson Sea-Link in 1995 and 1998. The ...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

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Futurewatch Jennifer Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

es some significant research into brain functioning. The mental habits we are learning as we use the Internet are altering our capabilities to read, and for thinking. New habits create new brain connections , while older established ones wither or fail to form. This brain plasticity is a great quality, but it also favours "primitive" mental functions, such as quick decision making, over intelle...