POST-COLONIAL AFRICAN LEADERSHIP IN ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH 

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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SENSOR

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A within-species analysis reveals the adaptive value of vein density along climatic gradients

A within-species analysis reveals the adaptive value of vein density along climatic gradients Introduction  Functional ecology holds promise for revealing the phenotypic determinants of the adaptation of organisms to their local environment thanks to the comparison of plant functional traits...

Pollen dearth and poor-quality pollen affect longevity and nursing ability of honeybees in intensive agricultural landscape

Pollen dearth and poor-quality pollen affect longevity and nursing ability of honeybees in intensive agricultural landscape  La nutrition caractérise une fonction clé pour tous les organismes. Pour l’abeille domestique, Apis mellifera L., le pollen représente l’élément limitant pour son développement,...

DYNAMICS OF NON STRUCTURAL CARBOHYDRATES (NSC) IN 10 YEARS-OLD FAGUS SYLVATICA L. YOUNGEST TWIGS FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL DEFOLIATION OR DROUGHT WHICH INDUCED MORTALITY

DYNAMICS OF NON STRUCTURAL CARBOHYDRATES (NSC) IN 10 YEARS-OLD FAGUS SYLVATICA L. YOUNGEST TWIGS FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL DEFOLIATION OR DROUGHT WHICH INDUCED MORTALITY Climate change might result in more intense and more frequent drought events particularly in temperate regions (IPCC, 2013)....

Multivariate analyses of evolutionary changes

 Multivariate analyses of evolutionary changes  During the last few decades numerous studies have highlighted the important role of anthropogenic disturbances on the occurrence and speed of contemporary microevolutions in wild populations (reviewed by Hendry & Kinnison, 2001 ; Medina et...

ACCELERATED LABORATORY TEST OF BIODETERIORATION

ACCELERATED LABORATORY TEST OF BIODETERIORATION The development of the accelerated laboratory test to study fungal biodeterioration of a cementitious matrix is described in this chapter. Five tests were performed before to define the best methodology. Each test was optimized as...

Investigating the effects of cooperative vehicles on highway traffic flow homogenization

The advent of new technologies in transportation, known as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and their introduction into daily city and intercity traffic has become a major preoccupation for car manufacturers, road authorities, traffic operators, and researchers. High technology is soughtafter...

Relevance of the study for the Aeolus project

Component internal state As we established before, one of the important features of software components which we wanted to include in the Aeolus model was their life-cycle. Most software components are not static from the system administration point of view,...

The trinity of crystallization process, ice transport and iceforms

A conceptual model of cold rivers Based on average monthly minimal temperature data and major basins distribution, it can be es timated that ice processes occur in 60 % of major ri ve r basins in tbe northern hemispbere (fig....