To manage the problem of having a higher demand for resources than availability of funds, research funding agencies usually rank the major research groups in their area of knowledge. This ranking relies on a careful analysis of the research groups in terms of their size, number of PhDs graduated, research results and their impact, among other variables. While research results are not the only v...

Using a method suggested by the authors earlier, the long-term trends of the F2-layer critical frequency, foF2 are derived for a set of ionospheric stations with a wide latitudinal and longitudinal coverage. All the trends are found to be negative. A pronounced dependence on geomagnetic latitude is found, the trend magnitude increasing with the latter. No globe scale longitudinal e€ect in trend...

Supplement to the article " An appraisal of the classic forest succession paradigm with the shade-tolerance index. " Figure 1: Plot locations in southern Wisconsin used for the comparison with Curtis and McIntosh (1951). The overall geographical area considered is similar to the Figure 1 in Curtis and McIntosh (1951), while the number of plots (n=7017) considered here is substantially larger th...