4 Wooster, M.J., Roberts, G., Freeborn, P. H., Xu, W., Govaerts, Y., Beeby, R., 5 He, J. , A. Lattanzio, Fisher, D., and Mullen, R. 6 7 8 1 King’s College London, Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Research Group, 9 Department of Geography , Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK. 10 2 NERC National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), UK. 11 3 Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Hi...

T he Little Smoky caribou herd of western Alberta province is among the most imperiled in Canada, its few dozen animals threatened by oil and gas development, logging, and hungry wolves. Soon, the herd could also become a high-profile test case for a controversial plan to save some of Canada’s woodland caribou from extinction: herding them into pens enclosing 100 square kilometers or more and r...

Biological nitrogen (N) fixation is the primary source of “new” N to unmanaged ecosys­ tems, and recent analyses suggest that terrestrial N inputs via free-living N fixation may be more impor­ tant than previously assumed. This may be particularly true in some tropical rain forests, where free-living fixation could outpace symbiotic N fixation to repre­ sent the dominant source of new N inputs....

—We provide substantial new information on the breeding biology of the Rusty-breasted Antpitta (Grallaricula ferrugineipectus ferrugineipectus) from 40 nests during four consecutive breeding seasons at Yacambú National Park in Venezuela. Vocalizations are quite variable in G. ferrugineipectus. Nesting activity peaked in April when laying began for half of all nests monitored. The date of nest i...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QOL) is a core outcome of palliative care, yet in African settings there is a lack of evidence on patients' levels of QOL. We aimed to describe QOL among patients with incurable, progressive disease receiving palliative care in South Africa and Uganda, to compare QOL in cancer and HIV, to determine how domains of QOL correlate with overall QOL, and compare levels of ...

A reliable and valid measure of the quality of the dying experience would help clinicians and researchers improve care for dying patients. To describe the validity of an instrument assessing the quality of dying and death using the perspective of family members after death and to identify clinical correlates of a high quality death, a retrospective cohort study evaluated the 31-item Quality of ...

A b s tra c t A lthough below ground ecosystems have been studied extensively and soil biota play integral roles in biogeochem icai processes, surprisingly we have a lim ited understanding o f global patterns in below ground biom ass and com m unity structure. T o address this critical gap, we conducted a meta-analysis o f published data (> 1300 datapoints) to com pare below ground plant, m icr...

Evolution, human sexuality, pets and people, Chinese medicine, and urban entomology were but a handful of the subjects presented and discussed at the 1984 annual meeting of the AAAS Pacific Division. Meeting participants heard a lively debate, between Yale University paleontologist John Ostrom and Columbia University ornithologist Walter Bock, on the evolution of flight. Ostrom presented the th...

Like many Americans, especially New Yorkers like me, and probably most readers of Palliative & Supportive Care around the world, I don’t often think about the great state of Montana (aka Big Sky Country) in the Western United States. It usually doesn’t make news, and because it’s ranked 44 in population (about 1 million people) and has very few electoral college votes, it isn’t even one of thos...

Background The success of hemodialysis (HD) treatment depends largely on patient adherence to strictly recommended treatment regimen. Non adherence to therapeutic recommendations may have unpleasant results on quality of life (QoL), increased morbidity, mortality and health cost. Aim The aim of this study protocol is to investigate i) the effect of an educational program on the patient knowledg...