Association Patterns in Saproxylic Insect Networks in Three Iberian Mediterranean Woodlands and Their Resistance to Microhabitat Loss

The assessment of the relationship between species diversity, species interactions and environmental characteristics is indispensable for understanding network architecture and ecological distribution in complex networks. Saproxylic insect communities inhabiting tree hollow microhabitats within Mediterranean woodlands are highly dependent on woodland configuration and on microhabitat supply they harbor, so can be studied under the network analysis perspective. We assessed the differences in interacting patterns according to woodland site, and analysed the importance of functional species in modelling network architecture. We then evaluated their implications for saproxylic assemblages’ persistence, through simulations of three possible scenarios of loss of tree hollow microhabitat. Tree hollow-saproxylic insect networks per woodland site presented a significant nested pattern. Those woodlands with higher complexity of tree individuals and tree hollow microhabitats also housed higher species/interactions diversity and complexity of saproxylic networks, and exhibited a higher degree of nestedness, suggesting that a higher woodland complexity positively influences saproxylic diversity and interaction complexity, thus determining higher degree of nestedness. Moreover, the number of insects acting as key interconnectors (nodes falling into the core region, using core/periphery tests) was similar among woodland sites, but the species identity varied on each. Such differences in insect core composition among woodland sites suggest the functional role they depict at woodland scale. Tree hollows acting as core corresponded with large tree hollows near the ground and simultaneously housing various breeding microsites, whereas core insects were species mediating relevant ecological interactions within saproxylic communities, e.g. predation, competitive or facilitation interactions. Differences in network patterns and tree hollow characteristics among woodland sites clearly defined different sensitivity to microhabitat loss, and higher saproxylic diversity and woodland complexity showed positive relation with robustness. These results highlight that woodland complexity goes hand in hand with biotic and ecological complexity of saproxylic networks, and together exhibited positive effects on network robustness.

Diabetic vascular disease and Maturity-onset diabetes of the young

Aim: Vascular disease such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, or retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy are common in diabetes. Maturity - onset diabetes of the young (MODY) describes a clinically heterogeneous group of familial diabetes characterized by monogenic, autosomal dominant inheritance that generally results from beta cell dysfunction. This study aims to assess the presence of vascular complications on Portuguese patients with a clinical diagnosis of MODY.

Ralston gardens of life : a study of health and the best way of living, including the natural cure of disease and the perfecting of the faculties : also private walks and talks with the author and a complete presentation of diets in health and disease and foods of the Ralstonites /

Includes index.

Wet weather highway accident analysis and skid resistance data management system. Volume 2: user's manual. Final report.

Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge

Multiple neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's disease) and its inheritance. with descriptions of a case,

"Reprinted form the American journal of the medical sciences, October, 1918, no. 4, vol. CLVI, p. 507."

A treatise on the synochus atrabiliosa, a contagious fever : wich raged at Senegal in the year 1778, and proved fatal to the greatest part of the europeans, and to a number of the natives : to which is prefixed, a Journal of the Weather during the Prevalence of that disease ...: and annexed to it, a short reflexion on the gum trade of Senegal, and the importance of the place on that account /

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Thoughts arising from experience, concerning the present peculiar method of treating persons inoculated for the small-pox : : relating to the preparation of the patines, the manner of the operations, the genuine nature of the disease and of soma other eruptive cases /

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Some fundamentals in the study of nutrition : the cause of malnutrition and effects produced by malnutrition namely, disease : and elementary treatise prepared for use in the livestock feed industry /

Library's copy has author's autograph on cover slip.

Thermoplastic striping with improved durability and snowplow resistance : executive summary and draft specifications /

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Medicine, disease, and death; being an enquiry into the progress of medicine as a practical art.

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The domestic encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge : comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements, chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy. Together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial, illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts in five volumes /

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A tract upon dyspepsy, or indigestion, and the hypochondriac disease : and upon the inflammatory or regular gout, and the atonic, irregular, or flying gout ... /

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A text-book of practical therapeutics, with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis.

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Borna disease and enzootic encephalo-myelitis of sheep and cattle.

At head of title: ... Privy Council. Medical Research Council.