Abstract Background Captive rearing is often critical for animals that are vulnerable to extinction in the wild. However, few studies have investigated extent which captivity impacts hosts and their gut microbiota, despite mounting evidence indicating host health affected by microbes. We assessed influence of on microbiome Brown Kiwi ( Apteryx mantelli ), a flightless bird endemic New Zealand. ...

Reference to material in this report should be cited thus: McLennan, J. 1997. Ecology of brown kiwi and causes of population decline in Lake Waikaremoana catchment.

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An aerial 1080 poison operation for possums at Waipoua Forest in spring 1990 applied cereal pellets lured with cinnamon. Numbers of brown kiwi, moreporks, fernbirds, kokako and common diurnal birds were monitored before, during and after the operation, while small numbers of insects and kauri snails were tested for 1080 uptake. Of the birds only blackbird and tomtit showed possible declines aft...

Background: Ocimum basilicum L., commonly known as sweet basil, is an important aromatic plant cultivated in many parts of the world for its essential oil. Basil does not show natural distribution in Turkey but they are cultivated as medicinal, seasoning or oil plants especially in the western and southern Anatolia. In this study, introduction of new production patterns of green and purple basi...

Performance of commercially available component resolved microarray has not been widely evaluated in food allergy. Fruit allergy is a prevalent food allergy in which component resolved diagnosis is crucial. In the context of a multicentric study on pollen and vegetable food allergy in Spain, we enrolled patients (n=137) who had suffered at least two episodes of immediate symptoms after ingestio...

KiWi is a framework for semantic social software applications that combines the Wiki philosophy with Semantic Web technologies. Applications based on KiWi can therefore leverage i.a. reasoning and versioning to follow both aspects and even go beyond existing technologies. For example, KiWi allows composition of content items, which poses a challenge to the versioning system. In this paper we di...