Relational perspectives have become pre-eminent in geographical analysis of globalisation and its impacts reshaping places, yet arguably leave unanswered questions about precisely how is reproduced through local places practice. This paper seeks to extend enhance the relational approach place by drawing on theoretical insights from assemblage thinking articulate a methodological framework for e...

Development of infrastructure around cities is rapidly increasing the amount of artificial substrate (termed artificial reef, 'AR') in coastal marine habitats. However, effects of ARs on marine communities remain unknown, because it is unclear whether ARs can maintain similar communities to natural reefs. We investigated whether well-established (> 30 years old) breakwaters could consistently a...

Background This study is the first phylogenetic genotype analysis of Giardia lamblia in Iran. The main objective was to determine genotyping and identify the sub-assemblages of Giardia lamblia isolates involved in the transmission of giardiasis in Fars Province, south of Iran, in 2012. Methods Forty G. lamblia isolates were collected from the patient's fecal samples with gastrointestinal disc...

Article history: Received 4 December 2015 Received in revised form 2 June 2016 Accepted 4 June 2016 Available online 6 June 2016 Reef-associated sediments accumulate over time recording the history of biological communities. The agreement between live and dead assemblages has been extensively studied, because discrepancies between the two can reveal taphonomic bias, anthropogenic impact, and/or...

The mid-Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage from south-eastern Morocco is one of the most diversified continental vertebrate assemblages of this time worldwide. The bony fish component (coelacanths, lungfishes and ray-finned fishes) is represented by relatively complete specimens and, mostly, by fragmentary elements scattered along 250 kilometres of outcrops. Here we revisit the bony fish assembla...

—The Snyder quarry is a well-documented assemblage of Late Triassic invertebrates and vertebrates from the Painted Desert Member of the Upper Triassic Petrified Forest Formation in the Chama Basin, north-central New Mexico. The presence of Revueltian index taxa, including the aetosaurs Typothorax coccinarum and Desmatosuchus chamaensis and the phytosaur Pseudopalatus buceros, demonstrate that t...

Cratonic mantle eclogite xenoliths occur with diamond-bearing kimberlite. The modes and mineral compositions of eclogite contain important information on their origin, physical-chemical conditions of formation, and their geophysical properties. We have used the pseudosection option of the program PERPLEX to explore how mineral assemblage, abundance, and composition vary with bulk composition, t...

BACKGROUND The moth family Geometridae (inchworms or loopers), with approximately 23,000 described species, is the second most diverse family of the Lepidoptera. Apart from a few recent attempts based on morphology and molecular studies, the phylogeny of these moths has remained largely uninvestigated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We performed a rigorous and extensive molecular analysis of ...

Marine infaunal burrows and tubes greatly enhance solute transport between sediments and the overlying water column and are sites of elevated microbial activity. Biotic and abiotic controls of the compositions and activities of burrow and tube microbial communities are poorly understood. The microbial communities in tubes of the marine infaunal polychaete Diopatria cuprea collected from two dif...