In animals, color signals that convey information about quality are often associated with costs linked to the expression of coloration and may tenma vineyard therefore be honest signals of sender quality.Honest indicators are often seen in sexual signals that are used by males to advertise quality to females.Carotenoid and pterin pigments are respo
Abstract Green infrastructure (GI) has attracted city planners and watershed management professional as a new approach to control urban stormwater runoff.Several regulatory enforcements of GI implementation created an urgent need for quantitative information on GI practice effectiveness, namely for sediment and stream erosion.This study aims at inv
In the spring of 2012, in reforested areas of Peloritani Mountains (Sicily, Italy) a severe dieback of Acacia melanoxylon R.Brown was observed.The main symptoms on both young and adults plants consisted of elongated cankers on the trunks and epicormic shoots, wilt of the canopy and dieback interested mostly aged trees.The woody tissues showed brown
Introduction: During May 2012, a french wrap plus rubella outbreak was declared in Solomon Islands.A suspected case of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) was reported from one hospital 11 months later in 2013.This report describes the subsequent CRS investigation, findings and measures implemented.Methods: Prospective CRS surveillance was conducted