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We investigated the spatial patterning and floral synchrony within and among populations of a non-clonal, forest understory herb, Trillium catesbaei. Two populations of T. catesbaei within Great Smoky Mountains National Park were monitored for five years: Cades Cove (high deer abundance) and Whiteoak Sink (low deer abundance). All individuals within each population were mapped during year one a...

Genomes, genomes everywhere – but where to browse? The first full unicellular organism to be sequenced was Saccharomyces cerevisae in 1996 1 and two years later the first multicellular eukaryotic genome was that of Caenorhabditis elegans. 2 Subsequently there has been an explosion in the number of genome projects. Potentially the most useful in medical terms, the Human Genome Project, carried o...

Following up on the successful NSCAT mission, the QuikScat/SeaWinds scatterometer (Qscat) provides normalized radar cross section ( o) measurements of the Earth's surface at unprecedented coverage and resolution. While originally designed for wind observation, scatterometers have proven useful in a variety of land and ice studies. To aid in the selection of regions and time periods for study, a...