Recent collecting of vertebrate fossils in Petrifi ed Forest National Park as the result of an ongoing inventory of fossil localities has produced numerous important new specimens. These include phytosaur skulls and partial skeletons, aetosaur partial skeletons and isolated, but complete, osteoderms, as well as new dinosaur material that contributes new information to a currently poor dinosaur ...

a Zoological Society London, Institute of Zoology, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK b Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK c Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA d Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave, NY, 10065, USA e Royal (Dick) S...

Travel cost and contingent valuation methods are applied to the problem of estimating the potential consumer surpltrs avai!abfe to international nature tourists from a rain forest conservation project in Madagascar. Data are derived from srrrveys of nature tourists in Madagascar and international, nature tolrrism professionals in the U.S. and Europe. Typical trip travel cost models are used to ...

The successful establishment of invasive alien species in North America is strongly associated with global trade. Invasive insects and pathogens that affect plants are regularly introduced through international trade and domestic freight shipments, but few studies have directly quantified the invasion risks caused by commercial transportation at regional or larger scales. Similarly, despite muc...

Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park, P.O. Box 168, WY 82190, USA d Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, L3 5...

The machinery of the Big River mine is the most complete historical assemblage of in situ machinery for quartz mining in New Zealand. Excavations were carried out to mitigate the effects of reconstruction of the winding engine house. Comprehensive and extensive drainage of the original working compound between the winding engine, bath house, engineer's workshop and the upper terminal of the aer...

To ensure remote sensing MODIS hotspot (also known as active fire products or hotspots) quality and precision in forest fire control and management in Thailand, an increased level of confidence is needed. Accuracy assessment of MODIS hotspots utilizing field survey data validation is described. A quantitative evaluation of MODIS hotspot products has been carried out since the 2007 forest fire s...

1Alumni and George Peak Jr. Professor of Forest Economics and Policy, School of Forestry and Wildlife Science, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5418 (phone: 334-844-1067; fax: 334-844-1084; e-mail: [email protected]). 2Assistant Professor, Institute of Finance and Economics Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, No. 777 Guoding Road, Shanghai, PR China, 200433 (correspondin...

Forest weeds were not considered to be a major management problem in Hawai'i until the latter quarter of the last century. Most previous biological control programs in the state were against agricultural pests. An interagency committee (U.S.D.A. Forest Service, National Park Service, Hawai'i Department of Agriculture, Hawai'i Division of Forestry and Wildlife, and the University of Hawai'i) was...