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'The Advocate' Resident Advocate Newsletter, July 2007, Vol. 10

This tool of communication between the 2,500 members of the Resident Advocate Committee (RAC) Program and the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman is used to keep all volunteers informed of their roles and responsibilities as they carry out the duties of a resident advocate. The Advocate is provided to Resident Advocates on a quarterly basis.

Primera evaluación sobre los posibles efectos del represamiento del río Puyango - Tumbes en la hidrobiología y pesquería de la región

Análisis de las implicancias que pueda tener el represamiento del río Puyango-Tumbes (de recorrido binacional: Ecuador, cuenca alta: 130 Km y Perú: cuenca baja y desembocadura 80 Km), en la hidrobiología y pesquería de la región. Para ello se describe previamente la conformación general del ambiente. Por las condiciones especiales del ecosistema, dicha descripción y análisis se hace separadamente para el río, zona de manglares y mar adyacente. Se indican los aspectos que podrían ser perjudiciales para el ecosistema y pesca, así como las posibilidades de aprovechamiento adicional. El informe describe el primer análisis de las implicancias que pueda tener el represamiento del río Puyango - Tumbes.

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Studies aiming at explaining specialization along latitudinal gradients of plant-herbivore interactions have, to date, yielded inconclusive results. Here we propose the use of steep altitudinal gradients for dissecting factors driving evolution of polyphagy in insect herbivores. First, we test whether colonization of high elevation environment favours increased niche-breadth in two disparate insect groups - the wood-boring beetles and the pollinator group of bees - and show increased polyphagy at higher altitudes in both groups. We then assess classic assumptions transferred from the 'latitude-niche-breadth hypothesis', particularly the increase in environmental variability at high, compared to low, altitude. Finally, we discuss alternative mechanisms shaping the observed pattern of increased polyphagy in altitude, including variation in plant quality and predator pressure at different altitudes. We thus suggest evidence for the 'altitude niche-breadth hypothesis', in which both abiotic and biotic conditions, including increased variability and an increase of the potential feeding niche-breadth, promote evolution for increased insect polyphagy in altitude.