(Tables 1,2) Site characteristics and phenotypic attributes of King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Possession Island

In colonial species, it is often assumed that locations in the center of the colony are of highest quality and provide highest breeding success. We tested this prediction, known as the "central-periphery model," in a King Penguin colony in the subantarctic Crozet Archipelago. Breeding activity and survival of 150 penguins, fitted with transponder tags, were monitored over an entire breeding season. Among these 150 birds, 50 bred on the slope at the upper periphery of the colony, where the rates of predation and parasitism by ticks were high. Fifty birds bred in the center of the colony, where rates of predation and tick parasitism were low, and 50 bred at the lower end of the colony, where the rate of tick parasitism was low but predation and flooding were important risks. We predicted that the center of the colony should provide the safest breeding place and consequently be characterized by the highest breeding success and be used by the highest-quality individuals. Yet we found that penguins breeding in the center of the colony had the same breeding success as those at both peripheral locations. In addition, penguins breeding on the upper slope had a higher survival rate than penguins breeding at the center or bottom of the slope and were likely of higher quality. Our study does not support the central-periphery model and emphasizes the complexity behind the relationships among breeding site, breeding success, and individual quality.

Sedimentology on profile Co1202 from Lake Ohrid

Lake Ohrid is probably of Pliocene age, and the oldest extant lake in Europe. In this study climatic and environmental changes during the last glacial-interglacial cycle are reconstructed using lithological, sedimentological, geochemical and physical proxy analysis of a 15-m-long sediment succession from Lake Ohrid. A chronological framework is derived from tephrochronology and radiocarbon dating, which yields a basal age of ca. 136 ka. The succession is not continuous, however, with a hiatus between ca. 97.6 and 81.7 ka. Sediment accumulation in course of the last climatic cycle is controlled by the complex interaction of a variety of climate-controlled parameters and their impact on catchment dynamics, limnology, and hydrology of the lake. Warm interglacial and cold glacial climate conditions can be clearly distinguished from organic matter, calcite, clastic detritus and lithostratigraphic data. During interglacial periods, short-term fluctuations are recorded by abrupt variations in organic matter and calcite content, indicating climatically-induced changes in lake productivity and hydrology. During glacial periods, high variability in the contents of coarse silt to fine sand sized clastic matter is probably a function of climatically-induced changes in catchment dynamics and wind activity. In some instances tephra layers provide potential stratigraphic markers for short-lived climate perturbations. Given their widespread distribution in sites across the region, tephra analysis has the potential to provide insight into variation in the impact of climate and environmental change across the Mediterranean.

The signors of the night; the story of Frá Giovanni, the soldier-monk of Venice; and of others in the "Silent city",

Mode of access: Internet.

Giovanni Costa : his life, work, & times /

Includes index.

Le lettere di Giovanni Meli /

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Catalogue of a selection of etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi ...

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Nel giorno trigesimo dalla morte del fu benemerito parroco de' SS. Giovanni e Paolo don Gian Domenico Salomonio.

University of Illinois bookplate: "From the library of Conte Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana Lazelada di Bereguardo, purchased 1921".

Don Giovanni overture. [music] /

Title on cover: Don Juan.

Medals by Giovanni Cavino, the "Paduan" /

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Giovanni di Antonio Chellini da San Miniato

Antonio Rossellino; 1 ft. 8 1/8 in.x 1 ft. 10 43/64 in.x 8 7/64 in.; carved marble

Vita di Giovanni Boccacci scritta dal conte Gio. Batista Baldelli ...

"Nella maggior parte degli esemplari la nota delle pagg. 212-213 fu ristampata come volle la censura; ma tuttavia in qualche raro esemplare si ritrova nella sua integrità."--Razzolini, Bibl. dei testi di lingua a stampa, p. 391.

I baci di Giovanni Secondo;

Latin and Italian on opposite pages.

Giovanni Pascoli, studio critico.

"Il saggio che sul Pascolo il Croce pubblicò nel 1907 e raccolse poi nel 1915 nel quarto volume della Letteratura della nuova Italia."--Avvertenza.