Plant diversityis essential to maintain the health of planet's ecosystems. Conservation of biodiversity is necessary for the ecological stability and productivity in natural ecosystems. The aim of this research was to study the biodiversity and richness of plant species (including trees, shrubs and grasses) related to the environmental factors (soil and physiography) in the forests of Zagros, w...

A. Tsukernik, A. Palevski, V. J. Goldman, S. Luryi, E. Kapon, and A. Rudra School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook,...

Bivalve mollusk shells were collected in 2350 m depth in the Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska. Initial identification suggested the specimens were a member of the bivalve family Thyasiridae, but no known eastern Pacific or Arctic living or fossil thyasirid resembled these deep-water specimens. Comparisons were made with the type of the genera Maorithyas Fleming, 1950, Spinaxinus O...

Background: We have previously reported an association between the estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) gene exon 8 G594A polymorphism and migraine susceptibility in two independent Australian cohorts. In this paper we report results of analysis of two further single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ESR1 gene in the same study group, the T/C Pvu II SNP in intron 1 and the C325G SNP in exon 4, as we...

recognition of habitats and conditions of species presences in differentsituations can be effective in proper utilization of vegetation. little is known about thevegetation composition of boralan mountain region located in north west of iran in theborder of turkey and azerbaijan with the altitude range of 800-2000m. the aim of thisstudy therefore was to investigate the floristic composition qua...

We formulate the weak separation condition and finite type for conformal iterated function systems on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature, generalize main theorems by Lau et al. (Monatsch Math 156:325–355, 2009). also obtain a formula Hausdorff dimension of self-similar set defined an system satisfying condition, generalizing corresponding result Jin Yau (Commun Anal Geom 13:8...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to compare scapular kinematics during elevation phase of abduction, flexion, and scapular plane elevation phase between fifteen persons with shoulder impingement syndrome (sis) and thirteen persons without it. methods: values of scapular kinematics include scapular superior and lateral translations, upward rotation, external rotation, and posterior tipp...

Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Department of Biological Sciences, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, P.M.B 71 Yenagoa, Nigeria Department of Animal Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria Chemical, Biological and Agricul...

EDWARD A. D. MITCHELL†*, ALEXANDRE BUTTLER‡, PHILIPPE GROSVERNIER§, HÅKAN RYDIN¶, ANDY SIEGENTHALER† and JEAN-MICHEL GOBAT† †Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Émile Argand 11, CH-2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland; ‡Laboratoire de Chrono-écologie, UMR 6565 CNRS, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, Université de Franche-Comté, F-25030, Besançon...