Scarcity of essential nutrients has led plants to evolve alternative nutritional strategies, such as myrmecotrophy (ant-waste-derived nutrition) and carnivory (invertebrate predation). The carnivorous plant Nepenthes bicalcarata grows in the Bornean peatswamp forests and is believed to have a mutualistic relationship with its symbiotic ant Camponotus schmitzi. However, the benefits provided by ...

Kuang-Hua Hu 1, Fu-Hsiang Chen 2,* and Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng 3 1 Department of Accounting, Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University, Wenquan Town, Conghua, Guangzhou 510970, China; [email protected] 2 Department and Graduate School of Accounting, Chinese Culture University, No. 55, Hwa Kang Rd., Yang Ming Shan, Taipei 11114, Taiwan 3 Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, National Taipei Universit...

Yunhao Lu, 2, ∗ Di Zhou, Guoqing Chang, 4 Shan Guan, Weiguang Chen, Yinzhu Jiang, 2 Jianzhong Jiang, 2 Hsin Lin, 4, † Xue-sen Wang, Shengyuan A. Yang, ‡ Yuan Ping Feng, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe 8 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China Centre for Advanced 2D Mater...

Data on the use of breeding records of dairy cattle farm of Fenghuang-shan in Chengdu areas during a period of six years is systematically analyzed. The results show that Holstein heifers have their 1st estrus at an average age of 513.6±46.7 d which is not related to the calving season. Estrus mostly occurs in the months with mild ambient temperature (March, April, May, November and December). ...

HSIEN-DA HUANG, JORNG-TZONG HORNG, CHIA-HUI CHANG, TSUNG-SHAN TSOU, JING-YUE HONG AND BAW-JHIUNE LIU Department of Biological Science and Technology Institute of Bioinformatics National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu, 300 Taiwan Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering Department of Life Science Institute of Statistics National Central University Chungli, 320 Taiwan E-mail: hor...

Reconstructing the paleoglaciation of the Tibetan Plateau is critical to understanding linkages between regional climate changes and global climate changes, and herewe focus on the glacial history of the Shaluli Shan, an area of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau that receives much of its precipitation from monsoon flow. Based on field investigation, geomorphological mapping, and 10Be exposure da...