Carbon stable isotope (delta(13)C) analysis can be used to infer the origin and to estimate the flow of nutrient resources through animals and across ecological compartments. These applications require knowledge of the rates at which carbon is incorporated into animal tissues and diet-to-tissue discrimination factors (Delta(13)C). Studies of carbon dynamics in terrestrial vertebrates to date ha...

Permanent and well-supported museum or natural history collections provide a solid foundation for the process of systematics research through creation of an empirical record which validates our understanding of the biosphere. We explore the role of museums in ongoing studies of the complex helminth fauna characteristic of pikas (Ochotona spp.) in the American west. These studies address the tax...

This is a first inventory of Isopoda Anthuroidea from near-shore marine sites in Sulawesi. The material was collected reefs, sea-grass beds and mangroves the Minahasa Peninsula North Specimens were washed out benthos samples shallow water. new species Hyssura reptans sp. nov., Kupellonura indonesica macaroni Pendanthura bangkaensis Expanathura marcoi Colanthura gerungi nov. are described. We di...

The genus Taiwanaenidea Kimoto, 1984 is a little-known galerucine genus known only with original description, which lacks illustrations. A number of specimens belonging to this genus are now available for study with effective collection made by Taiwan Chrysomelid Research Team. Two new species, T. cheni Lee and Beenen sp. nov. and T. jungchangi Lee and Beenen sp. nov. are here described. The ot...

To date, it remains unclear how herbivore-induced changes in plant primary and secondary metabolites impact above-ground and below-ground herbivore interactions. Here, we report effects of above-ground (adult) and below-ground (larval) feeding by Bikasha collaris on nitrogen and secondary chemicals in shoots and roots of Triadica sebifera to explain reciprocal above-ground and below-ground inse...

Bu çalışma ile Adıyaman ili kurbağa ve sürüngen envanterinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Adıyaman'da 19 familyaya ait toplam 49 tür (yedi kurbağa, dört kaplumbağa, bir kör kertenkele, 12 kertenkele 25 yılan türü) tespit edilmiştir. ile, Blanus alexandri (Sindaco et al, 2014), Mediodactylus orientalis (Stepánek, 1937), heterocercus (Blanford, 1874), Eryx jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758), Dolichophis jug...