The process of seed dispersal of many animal-dispersed plants is frequently mediated by a small set of biotic agents. However, the contribution that each of these dispersers makes to the overall recruitment may differ largely, with important ecological and management implications for the population viability and dynamics of the species implied in these interactions. In this paper, we compared t...

ACORN Agent based Community Oriented Retrieval Network is a multi agent system which uses agents to provide information across inter net intranet networks In this report we adapt the ACORN architecture for its performance evaluation on single and multiple servers running on single and multiple machines In order to evaluate the performance of ACORN we introduce a novel concept of multiple autono...

Th e acorn woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus ) plays an important role in the history of cooperative breeding. It was one of the earliest species for which cooperative breeding was noted with more than two individuals feeding at a single nest as well as apparent mate-sharing (Myers 1915 ; Leach 1925 ; Michael 1927 ). Subsequently, in his classic Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavi...

The ACORN provides an agent based architecture for infor mation retrieval and provision across networks The main objective of this paper is to present the design and implementation of information sharing in a community of mobile agents in ACORN based on keyphrase sharing and comparison among agents In keyphrase based information sharing keyphrases and their weights are used to represent user in...

We investigated spatial synchrony of acorn production by valley oaks (Quercus lobata) among individual trees at the within-population, local level and at the among-population, statewide level spanning the geographic range of the species. At the local level, the main drivers of spatial synchrony were water availability and flowering phenology of individual trees, while proximity, temperature dif...