Production and preservation of resins – past and presentBiological Reviews - Tập 93 Số 3 - Trang 1684-1714 - 2018
Leyla J. Seyfullah, Christina Beimforde, Jacopo Dal Corso, Vincent Perrichot, Jouko Rikkinen, Alexander R. Schmidt
ABSTRACTAmber is fossilised plant resin. It can be used to provide insights into the terrestrial conditions at the time the original resin was exuded. Amber research thus can inform many aspects of palaeontology, from the recovery and description of enclosed fossil organisms (biological inclusions) to attempts at reconstruction of past climates and environments. He...... hiện toàn bộ
Bivariate line‐fitting methods for allometryBiological Reviews - Tập 81 Số 2 - Trang 259-291 - 2006
David I. Warton, Ian J. Wright, Daniel S. Falster, Mark Westoby
ABSTRACTFitting a line to a bivariate dataset can be a deceptively complex problem, and there has been much debate on this issue in the literature. In this review, we describe for the practitioner the essential features of line‐fitting methods for estimating the relationship between two variables: what methods are commonly used, which method should be used when, an...... hiện toàn bộ
MULTIPLE HAEMOGLOBINSBiological Reviews - Tập 35 Số 4 - Trang 459-503 - 1960
Walter Gratzer, A. C. Allison
CHEMICAL HETEROGONY AND THE GROUNDPLAN OF ANIMAL GROWTH1Biological Reviews - Tập 9 Số 1 - Trang 79-109 - 1934
Joseph Needham
Summary1. In the preceding pages the application of the concept of heterogony to the chemical changes in growing Metazoa has been discussed.2. A number of concrete examples have been brought forward which seem to indicate a uniformity of chemical heterogony in widely different organisms.3. Hence it is suggested that there exists a ...... hiện toàn bộ
ENDOCRINE CONTROL IN THE CRUSTACEABiological Reviews - Tập 31 Số 4 - Trang 396-467 - 1956
SIR FRANCIS G. W. KNOWLES, D. B. Carlisle
SUMMARY
The hormones of crustaceans may be grouped into those which control effector organs (chromatophores, muscles) and those which control the more gradual sequences of growth, development and reproduction; they have been termed energetic and metabolic hormones respectively. Most of the known crustac...... hiện toàn bộ
FACTS AND MECHANISMS: A COMPARATIVE SURVEYBiological Reviews - Tập 46 Số 4 - Trang 429-481 - 1971
E. A. C. MacRobbie
Summary1. This review aims to survey the process of translocation of solutes in the phloem, including the experimental observations of the process, hypothetical mechanisms with their consequences, and the compatibility of these mechanisms with the experimental information.2. Some properties of the sieve elements are summarized. The characteristic c...... hiện toàn bộ
PATTERNS OF SPECIES DIVERSITYBiological Reviews - Tập 40 Số 4 - Trang 510-533 - 1965
Robert H. MacArthur
Summary1. Species diversity is most simply measured by counting species. More complicated measures, which take into account the relative abundance of the species, have been derived from information theory or from parameters of statistical distributions fitted to the census data. The information theory formulae can also be used to measure habitat diversity and diffe...... hiện toàn bộ
Scientists' warning on invasive alien speciesBiological Reviews - Tập 95 Số 6 - Trang 1511-1534 - 2020
Petr Pyšek, Philip E. Hulme, Daniel Simberloff, Sven Bacher, Tim M. Blackburn, James T. Carlton, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, Piero Genovesi, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Ingolf Kühn, Andrew M. Liebhold, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Laura A. Meyerson, Aníbal Pauchard, Jan Pergl, Helen E. Roy, Hanno Seebens, Mark van Kleunen, Montserrat Vilà, Michael J. Wingfield, David M. Richardson
ABSTRACTBiological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien species that spread widely in areas where they are not native, affecting the environment or human livelihoods – are increasing. Synergies with other global changes are exacerbatin...... hiện toàn bộ