This paper describes the first visit to Jacquemart Island in the south of the subantarctic Campbell Island group. The island contrasts with the main island by the absence of introduced grazing mammals, rats (Rattus spp.) and feral cats (Felis catus), and in the dominance of palatable plant species. A survey of the main vegetation communities was made and bird species seen were recorded. Specime...

Twenty rotifers (three Bdelloidea and 17 Monogononta, including new of Encentrum and Notholca) , a platyhelminth, two nematodes, two tardigrades, one cnchytraeid worm, four c1adoccrans, two copcpods and three species of mites were recovered from five small pools on Heard Island. The results indicate that the Heard Island fauna is closer to that of Signy Island and Macquarie Island than to that ...

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Human activities such as oil and gas production can enhance the natural level of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in by-product and waste streams. Iran has been among the top five oil producing countries since 2005. This high production rate emphasizes the importance of NORM management to ensure the safety of humans and wildlife. Petroleum storage and transport facilities are lo...

We determine the equilibrium morphology of a strained solid lm for the case where it wets the substrate (Stranski-Krastanow growth). Using a continuum elasticity model with isotropic surface energy and equal elastic constants in the lm and substrate, we calculate an asymptotic solution for the axisymmetric three-dimensional equilibrium shape of a small island, where the height is much less than...

The equilibrium shape and chemical potential of an array of island ridges in an epitaxially strained solid film are determined from a continuum model describing the Stranski–Krastonow morphology of a thin layer on a substrate. This model incorporates the conditions for mechanical and chemical equilibrium, isotropic surface energy, and misfit strain. Solutions corresponding to periodic arrays of...

When the diminutive skeleton of Homo floresiensis was found on the Indonesian island of Flores, it was interpreted as an island dwarf, conforming to the 'island rule' that large animals evolve smaller size on islands, but small animals tend to get larger. However, previous studies of the island rule have not included primates, so the extent to which insular primate populations undergo size chan...

During the Nauru99 field experiment (held during June and July of 1999); the presence of an island effect on the cloud and radiation measurements recorded from the Atmospheric Radiation Cloud Station (ARCS) site at Nauru was identified. The island cloud effect occurs when moist air is advected over the island and the diurnal heating of the island (relative to the surrounding ocean) induces conv...