Necrotizing tracheobronchitis and acute airway obstruction from invasive mycosis developed in a patient who had undergone bone marrow transplantation. The infectious process obstructed the airway and disintegrated the walls of the right mainstem bronchus and pulmonary artery. The airway was cleared using rigid bronchoscopy to extract the detritus. The patient died of hemorrhage after rupture of...

Abstract Hurricanes alter forest habitat by opening the canopy and depositing fresh wood leaves. The objectives of this study were to evaluate effects hurricane drought‐driven changes forests on green litter decomposition, invertebrate communities, nutrient mineralization over a short period (6 months) after disturbance. We used three complete replicated blocks with two treatments: control trim...

Vertical flux regulation was investigated in the small, shallow, marine and partly anoxic Lake Rogoznica (eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea) by studying plankton composition, zooplankton fecal pellet (FP) production and vertical carbon flux. The lake is naturally eutrophicated with high nutrient and particulate organic carbon (POC) concentrations and relatively low species diversity. However, t...

Ecosystems that are depicted as nodes (species groups) and links (trophic transfers) encompass well defined roles in terms of their trophic structure. Some are primary producers and furnish the system with newly bound energy or nutrients, whereas others divide themselves over various trophic levels creating a hierarchy of energy use and reuse. All waste and mortality products of nodes comprise ...