State-and-transition models are increasingly used as a tool to inform management of post-disturbance succession and effective conservation of biodiversity in production landscapes. However, if they are to do this effectively, they need to represent faunal, as well as vegetation, succession. We assessed the congruence between vegetation and avian succession by sampling avian communities in each ...

We investigated changes in species richness, community biomass, and productivity during secondary forest succession in Ziwuling area of the Loess Plateau of China. Species richness(number of taxa) increased as the succession proceeds, and peaked at the climax forest community, but the richness growth gradually slowed down as the succession advanced. Community biomass rapidly increased from the ...

Natural indexing is an application-oriented description method for nite element meshes. This work describes how the main parts of an adaptive multilevel method for linear triangular nite element methods can be expressed within the framework of natural indexing. Particular emphasis is on the expression of operations that involve hierarchies of meshes such as adaptive re nement, hierarchic coarse...

In Canada, the nursing shortage is all encompassing, and nurse leaders are needed from the bedside to the boardroom. Healthcare organizations and the nursing profession lag behind the corporate sector in development of strategic leadership succession planning. Contemporary nurse leaders will require all the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies their predecessors can provide. Effective ...

The study aims to investigate fungal community structures and dynamic changes in forest soil lignocellulose-degrading process. rRNA gene clone libraries for the samples collected in different stages of lignocellulose degradation process were constructed and analyzed. A total of 26 representative RFLP types were obtained from original soil clone library, including Mucoromycotina (29.5%), unclass...

Although pileate saprobic ground fungi are primarily appreciated for their contributions to the bill of fare, their role in the mineralization of organic residues and xenobiotics in soil should not be underestimated. Enormous differences in their interactions with soil microorganisms and nonhost plants impair their artificial transfer to natural substrates. The paper reviews the impact of emana...