Sharad P. Adekar, Igor Klyubin, Sally Macy, Michael J. Rowan, Alan Solomon, Scott K. Dessain, and Brian O’Nuallain From the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania 19096, the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland, and the Human Immunology and Cancer Program, Department of Medicine, U...

Deriving relationships between catchment-scale hydrologic response and landscape attributes allows the hydrologic response of an ungauged catchment to be predicted from its landscape attributes and climate. In this study, a lumped conceptual rainfall-runoff model was applied at a daily timestep to 16 small (less than 1 km) catchments in the Maroondah region of Victoria, Australia. The six param...

M any natural landscapes have undergone dramatic permanent alterations as a result of human activities, including conversion to cultural landscapes; such changes are readily observed and understood. However, extensive ecological change can also occur in regional landscapes that are maintained in a seminatural state, changes that go largely unrecognized because the regional landscape retains an ...

We examined relationships between stem diameter, sapwood area, leaf area and transpiration in a 15-year-old mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.) forest containing silver wattle (Acacia dealbata Link.) as a suppressed overstory species and mountain hickory (Acacia frigescens J.H. Willis) as an understory species. Stem diameter explained 93% of the variation in leaf area, 96% of the variat...

Uranium (U) can be released to the environment through the entire nuclear fuel cycle. U uptake by plants is an important process for possible adverse effects in ecosystems. The soil-to-plant transfer of natural U and its distribution across plant parts were investigated in May lily (Maianthemum bifolium), narrow buckler fern (Dryopteris carthusiana), rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) and Norway spruce (...