DOUGLAS SHEIL*, AGUS SALIM*†, JÉRÔME CHAVE‡, JEROME VANCLAY§ and WILLIAM D. HAWTHORNE¶ * Center for International Forestry Research, PO Box 6596 JKPWB, Jakarta 10065, Indonesia, † National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Mills Road, Acton ACT 0200, Australia, ‡ Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR CNRS 5174, 118, route de Narbone, F-3...

OBJECTIVE To determine patient factors and fracture morphology of dogs presented with mandibular fractures to a small animal referral centre in South Africa. METHODS Patient data on age, sex, breed and aetiology of dogs with mandibular fractures were recorded. The fractures were classified according to the anatomical location, displacement, fracture type, fracture line direction, periodontal ...

1. Competition for light is a central issue in ecological questions concerning forest tree differentiation and diversity. Here, using 213,106 individual stem records derived from a national survey in Ghana, West Africa, we examine the relationship between relative crown exposure, ontogeny and phylogeny for 109 canopy species. 2 2. We use a generalized linear model (GLM) framework to allow inter...