Projecting population responses to climate change requires an understanding of climatic impacts on key components of reproduction. Here, we investigate the associations among breeding phenology, climate and incubation schedules in the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps), a 50 g passerine with female-only, intermittent incubation that typically breeds from late winter (July) to earl...

Maternal preferences for oviposition sites are assumed to be adaptive, but offspring fitness is not always higher at preferred sites and, thus, further study of the selection pressures that influence oviposition behavior is warranted. Among birds, predation is regarded as the primary agent of selection on nest-site microhabitat preferences, but alternatives are rarely considered. We tested the ...

Hulina, N.: Rare, endangered or vulnerable plants and neophytes in a drainage system in Croatia, Nat. Croat., Vol. 7, No. 4., 279–289, 1998, Zagreb In an extensive network of field and lateral drain channels, in the area of Turopolje and ^rnec Polje, seven locally and generally rare, endangered or vulnerable plants were noted. These are: Riccia fluitans L., Marsilea quadrifolia L., Utricularia ...

Abstract Eleocharis (Cyperaceae) includes more than 300 species of perennial or annual herbs, frequently found on poorly drained soils. The are morphologicaly similar, and the taxonomy is difficult because their vegetative reproductive structures very reduced. Previous study stem architecture in subgenus Limnochloa showed that anatomical features help interpretation evolution, ecological aspect...

A study was undertaken to identify the major larval habitats of the Anopheles gambiae (Giles) complex in rural Gambia. Mosquito larvae and pupae were sampled along transects and in specific habitats in the central region of the country during the rainy seasons of 1996 and 1997. The sampling showed that the major breeding sites were located on the flooded alluvial soils bordering the river. The ...