Many species can successfully colonize new areas despite their propagules having low genetic variation. We assessed whether the decreased genetic diversity could result in temporal fluctuations of genetic parameters of the new populations of an invasive species, western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, using mitochondrial and microsatellite markers. This study was conducted in eight l...

Rivers provide an excellent system to study interactions between patterns of biodiversity structure and ecological processes. In these environments, gene flow is restricted by the spatial hierarchy and temporal variation of connectivity within the drainage network. In the Australian arid zone, this variability is high and rivers often exist as isolated waterholes connected during unpredictable ...

To assess the role of macrofauna-mediated sediment changes on nematode community recovery, we examined the temporal development of macrobenthos, nematode communities and sediment properties following hypoxia in 16 m2 replicated plots over a 6 mo period. Hypoxia drastically changed nematode community composition (i.e. reduced diversity and abundances of all dominant nematodes, except Odontophora...

Short Title: Prediction of Link Diversity Statistics. Abstract The average annual rain attenuation statistics experienced by individual microwave links are well understood. ITU-R models exist for the prediction of these statistics and they are used to assign power levels to links to achieve the desired availability. The performance of networks such as mulit-hop links or links utilising route, f...

The shapes of flowers and their organization into branching systems, called inflorescences, dictate much of plant diversity. Recent studies have identified key regulators in this diversity, revealing that the inflorescence architecture of Solanaceous species depends on sequential and temporal expression of the WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX (WOX) gene EVERGREEN (EVG)/ COMPOUND INFLORESCENCE (S) and t...

We consider the resource allocation problem in cooperative wireless networks wherein nodes perform mutual information accumulation. We consider a unicast setting and arbitrary arrival processes at the source node. Source arrivals can be broken down into numerous packets to better exploit the spatial and temporal diversity of the routes available in the network. We devise a linear-program-based ...

This paper presents a distributed slot assignment algorithm from the angle of temporal-spatial diversity of concurrent transmissions to achieve high capacity in wireless hotspots. The unique characteristics of wireless hotspots, such as multiple interference links and many flows, are the key limitations in the existing wireless network technology. However, we make the limitations to be the adva...

1. A large body of recent theory has recently developed focused on the relationship between the species diversity of competitor assemblages and the temporal stability of total competitor biomass. Many of these models predict that stability can increase with increasing diversity. 2. To explore natural relationships between zooplankton taxonomic diversity and temporal stability of total zooplankt...

Scale-dependence is a well-known phenomenon in geography with sophisticated theoretical approaches and techniques at hand to deal with the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). Geographical analyses are, however, predominantly focusing on urban spaces with a high level of small-scaled social diversity. While space is considered scale-sensitive less attention is paid to scale in a temporal and s...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) promise a significant improvement in the reliability of monitoring and treating people’s health. A WBAN comprises a number of intelligent biosensors and actuators that may either be implanted in vivo or mounted on the surface of the human body, and that are capable of wireless communication to one or more external nodes that are in close proximity to the huma...