During dire conditions, the channelling of resources into reproduction ensures species preservation. This strategy of survival through the next generation is particularly important for plants that are unable to escape their environment but can produce hardy seeds. Here, we describe the multiple roles of OXIDATIVE STRESS 2 (OXS2) in maintaining vegetative growth, activating stress tolerance, or ...

Most studies in chronobiology focus on solar cycles (daily and annual). Moonlight and the lunar cycle received considerably less attention by chronobiologists. An exception are rhythms in intertidal species. Terrestrial ecologists long ago acknowledged the effects of moonlight on predation success, and consequently on predation risk, foraging behaviour and habitat use, while marine biologists h...

 I argue it is inconsistent to believe that overconsumption is wrong or bad yet believe that having children is morally permissible, insofar as they produce comparable environmental impacts, are voluntary choices, and arise from similar desires. This presents a dilemma for “mainstream environmentalists”: they do not want to abandon either of those fundamental beliefs, yet must give up o...

The authors reject Joseph Fletcher's arguments that the choice to procreate is a privilege and that parents may be responsible in certain circumstances for producing genetically defective children. They argue instead that procreation is a conditional right, but nonetheless conclude that parents may be held responsible for the "wrongful life" of genetically damaged offspring based on the legal ...

Comments on Heffernan, J. M., Wahl, L. M. (2006). Improving estimates of the basic reproductive ratio: Using both the mean and the dispersal of transition times. Theoretical Population Biology, 70, 135-145.

Cupchik. G. C. & 8erlyne, D. E.: The perception of collatÎve properties in visual stimuli. Scand. J. Psychol. 20, 93-104, 1979. Two experiments were conducted to determine how quickly subjects respond to collative properties (e,g., Complexity, Uncenainty) of visual stimuli. In Experiment I subjects were presented with reproductions of paintîngs and artificial patterns which varied in collative ...