Preface to the Princeton Landmarks in Biology Edition vii Preface xi Symbols Used xiii 1. The Importance of Islands 3 2. Area and Number of Speicies 8 3. Further Explanations of the Area-Diversity Pattern 19 4. The Strategy of Colonization 68 5. Invasibility and the Variable Niche 94 6. Stepping Stones and Biotic Exchange 123 7. Evolutionary Changes Following Colonization 145 8. Prospect 181 Glossary 185 References 193 Index 201

The Theory of Island Biogeography

We consider 27 population and community terms used frequently by parasitologists when describing the ecology of parasites. We provide suggestions for various terms in an attempt to foster consistent use and to make terms used in parasite ecology easier to interpret for those who study free-living organisms. We suggest strongly that authors, whether they agree or disagree with us, provide complete and unambiguous definitions for all parameters of their studies.

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Parasitology meets ecology on its own terms: Margolis et al. revisited.

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) contains a complete record of all published organic and metal–organic small-molecule crystal structures. The database has been in operation for over 50 years and continues to be the primary means of sharing structural chemistry data and knowledge across disciplines. As well as structures that are made public to support scientific articles, it includes many structures published directly as CSD Communications. All structures are processed both computationally and by expert structural chemistry editors prior to entering the database. A key component of this processing is the reliable association of the chemical identity of the structure studied with the experimental data. This important step helps ensure that data is widely discoverable and readily reusable. Content is further enriched through selective inclusion of additional experimental data. Entries are available to anyone through free CSD community web services. Linking services developed and maintained by the CCDC, combined with the use of standard identifiers, facilitate discovery from other resources. Data can also be accessed through CCDC and third party software applications and through an application programming interface.

https://journals.iucr.org/b/issues/2016/02/00/bm5086/bm5086.pdf

The Cambridge Structural Database

Statistics for Spatial Data.

This book is the second of two volumes in a series on terrestrial and marine comparisons, focusing on the temporal complement of the earlier spatial analysis of patchiness and pattern (Levin et al. 1993). The issue of the relationships among pattern, scale, and patchiness has been framed forcefully in John Steele’s writings of two decades (e.g., Steele 1978). There is no pattern without an observational frame. In the words of Nietzsche, “There are no facts… only interpretations.”

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1941447

The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology: The Robert H. MacArthur Award Lecture

Spruce-fir forests extend along the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America from 35° to 49° N. This montane vegetation differs from boreal spruce-fir forest in that it is dominated by Picea rubens, has a higher vascular species richness, has wind, rather than fire, dominated dynamics, and has a mean annual temperature above 2 °C. Using field reconnaissance, remote sensing, and literature review we described and modeled the latitude-elevation relationship for Appalachian spruce-fir. The elevation of the sprucefir/deciduous forest ecotone decreases from 1,680 m at 35° N to 150 m at 49° N, while the elevation of treeline (spruce-fir/tundra ecotone) decreases from 1,480 m at 44° N to 550 m at 55° N. Linear regressions gave latitude-elevation relationships of −100 m/lo Latitude for the spruce-fir/deciduous forest ecotone and −83 m/lo Latitude for treeline. These values compare to literature reports of −54 to −230 m/lo Latitude and are most similar to values reported from eastern Asia. The latitude-elevation relationship for eman July temperature ( −94 to −121 m/lo Latitude) was more similar to the slopes of these ecotones than is the slope for mean annual temperature ( −170 to −220 m/lo Latitude). The spruce-fir/deciduous forest ecotone was correlated with a mean July temperature of approximately 17 °C. Treeline was correlated with a mean July temperature of approximately 13 °C.

The latitude-elevation relationship for spruce-fir forest and treeline along the Appalachian mountain chain

It served a poet well indeed to have Augustus for a friend And if Augustus were a friend of poets? All the better for the great glory of Roman letters It is this arrangement, complicated by questions of influence and accommodation and simple human susceptibility to the blandishments of power, that Peter White explores in "Promised Verse" Combining social history and literary interpretation, this book reveals the circumstances of poetic production in the golden era of Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Tibullus, and Propertius Peter White takes a close look at the relationship between the Augustan poets and the men of wealth and status who befriended them - and rewarded their literary efforts with money, gifts, and the benefits of illustrious connection These ties - between, for instance, Horace and Maecenas - appear as part of an elaborate system of social conventions, a system of mutual advantage to poet and patron Within this context, White also considers groups and institutions - the mysterious collegium poetarum, the schools of the grammarians, libraries, and public recitations - that helped the poet make his way and linked him to Roman society In Augustus we see a patron comparable in many ways to his aristocratic counterparts The Emperor sought to promote Roman literature, and yet seems to have intervened only rarely in the poetry he sponsored Contrary to a view that has been prevalent since the eighteenth century, the result was not literary propaganda Instead, White shows, the public poetry created by Augustan poets was as independent and inventive as the rest of their work

Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome

Spatially small canopy gaps dominated the natural disturbance regime of old-growth spruce–fir forests in the Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee. New gaps ≤200 m2 in size were forme...

Natural disturbance and gap phase dynamics in southern Appalachian spruce-fir forests

Sterically Hindered [Tris(imidazolyl)phosphine]copper Complexes: Formation and Reactivity of a Peroxo-Dicopper(II) Adduct and Structure of a Dinuclear Carbonate-Bridged Complex

Peter S. White

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The latitude-elevation relationship for spruce-fir forest and treeline along the Appalachian mountain chain

Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome

Natural disturbance and gap phase dynamics in southern Appalachian spruce-fir forests

Sterically Hindered [Tris(imidazolyl)phosphine]copper Complexes: Formation and Reactivity of a Peroxo-Dicopper(II) Adduct and Structure of a Dinuclear Carbonate-Bridged Complex

The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics