Stories of the Irish peasantry,

Mode of access: Internet.

Ballads in the Cumberland dialect. With notes descriptive of the manners and customs of the Cumberland peasantry, a glossary of local words, and a life of the author.

Mode of access: Internet.

Stories of the Irish peasantry,

Mode of access: Internet.

Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry.

Vol. 1 The midnight mass. The Lianhan Shee. Tubber Derg, or, The red well -- v. 2. An essay on Irish swearing. Wild Goose Lodge. Denis O'Shaughnessy going to Maynooth.

The works of Robert Burns : with an account of his life, and criticism on his writing ; to which are prefixed some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry by James Currie, M. D. ; with many additional poems and songs and an enlarged and corrected glossary.

Includes index.

Traditions of the Scottish peasantry, with other fire-side chit-chat collected on a tour in the north of England and in the Highlands of Scotland.

"The adventures of the gooroo Paramatan, a tale in the Tamul language, by Benjamin Babington," p. 58-65.

Tales and stories of the Irish peasantry.

v. 1. Tubber Derg. Barney Brady's goose. Tom Gressley, the Irish senachie. The castel of Aughentain. The white horse of the peppers. Mickey M'Rorey, the Irish fiddler.--v. 2 The poor scholar. A peasant girl's love. Tablot and Gaynor, the Irish pipers. Frank Finnegan, the foster brother.

Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry /

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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry /

Variant issue: series title on half title; errata slip inserted at p. [ix].

The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings. To which are prefixed, some observations on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry ...

"A reprint of Dr. Currie's second edition." cf. J. Gibson. The bibliography of Robert Burns.

Preface to peasantry; a tale of two Black belt counties,

Mode of access: Internet.

Works of Robert Burns: with an account of his life, and criticism on his writings. to which are prefixed, some observtions on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry.

Mode of access: Internet.

Landscape genetics of Phaedranassa herb. (Amaryllidaceae) in Ecuador

Speciation can be understood as a continuum occurring at different levels, from population to species. The recent molecular revolution in population genetics has opened a pathway towards understanding species evolution. At the same time, speciation patterns can be better explained by incorporating a geographic context, through the use of geographic information systems (GIS). Phaedranassa (Amaryllidaceae) is a genus restricted to one of the world’s most biodiverse hotspots, the Northern Andes. I studied seven Phaedranassa species from Ecuador. Six of these species are endemic to the country. The topographic complexity of the Andes, which creates local microhabitats ranging from moist slopes to dry valleys, might explain the patterns of Phaedranassa species differentiation. With a Bayesian individual assignment approach, I assessed the genetic structure of the genus throughout Ecuador using twelve microsatellite loci. I also used bioclimatic variables and species geographic coordinates under a Maximum Entropy algorithm to generate distribution models of the species. My results show that Phaedranassa species are genetically well-differentiated. Furthermore, with the exception of two species, all Phaedranassa showed non-overlapping distributions. Phaedranassa viridiflora and P. glauciflora were the only species in which the model predicted a broad species distribution, but genetic evidence indicates that these findings are likely an artifact of species delimitation issues. Both genetic differentiation and nonoverlapping geographic distribution suggest that allopatric divergence could be the general model of genetic differentiation. Evidence of sympatric speciation was found in two geographically and genetically distinct groups of P. viridiflora. Additionally, I report the first register of natural hybridization for the genus. The findings of this research show that the genetic differentiation of species in an intricate landscape as the Andes does not necessarily show a unique trend. Although allopatric speciation is the most common form of speciation, I found evidence of sympatric speciation and hybridization. These results show that the processes of speciation in the Andes have followed several pathways. The mixture of these processes contributes to the high biodiversity of the region.

Macroinvertebrate abundance in montane tropical streams of varying land-use, Ecuador

Despite the importance of tropical montane cloud forest streams, studies investigating aquatic communities in these regions are rare and knowledge on the driving factors of community structure is missing. The objectives of this study therefore were to understand how land-use influences habitat structure and macroinvertebrate communities in cloud forest streams of southern Ecuador. We evaluated these relationships in headwater streams with variable land cover, using multivariate statistics to identify relationships between key habitat variables and assemblage structure, and to resolve differences in composition among sites. Results show that shading intensity, substrate type and pH were the environmental parameters most closely related to variation in community composition observed among sites. In addition, macroinvertebrate density and partly diversity was lower in forested sites, possibly because the pH in forested streams lowered to almost 5 during spates. Standard bioindicator metrics were unable to detect the changes in assemblage structure between disturbed and forested streams. In general, our results indicate that tropical montane headwater streams are complex and heterogeneous ecosystems with low invertebrate densities. We also found that some amount of disturbance, i.e. patchy deforestation, can lead at least initially to an increase in macroinvertebrate taxa richness of these streams.