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Enemies Hypothesis: A Review of the Effect of Vegetational Diversity on Predatory Insects and Parasitoids
(Environmental Entomology, 1989-08)The enemies hypothesis holds that predatory insects and parasitoids are more effective at controlling populations of herbivores in diverse systems of vegetation than in simple ones. Eighteen studies that tested the enemies ... -
Phylogenetic assessment of filoviruses: how many lineages of Marburg virus?
(Wiley Open Access, 2012-07-01)Filoviruses have to date been considered as consisting of one diverse genus (Ebola viruses) and one undifferentiated genus (Marburg virus). We reconsider this idea by means of detailed phylogenetic analyses of sequence ... -
Microspatial Distributional Patterns of Vectors of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)The purpose of this study is to analyze the spatial distribution and population trends through time of Lutzomyia species in a long-term focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis transmission in an Atlantic Forest area, northeastern ... -
Effects of georeferencing effort on mapping monkeypox case distributions and transmission risk
(BioMed Central, 2012-06-27)Background Maps of disease occurrences and GIS-based models of disease transmission risk are increasingly common, and both rely on georeferenced diseases data. Automated methods for georeferencing disease data have been ... -
Geographic Distribution of Chagas Disease Vectors in Brazil Based on Ecological NicheModeling
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011)Although Brazil was declared free from Chagas disease transmission by the domestic vector Triatoma infestans, human acute cases are still being registered based on transmission by native triatomine species. For a better ... -
Predicting the Potential Worldwide Distribution of the Red Palm Weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using Ecological Niche Modeling
(Florida Entomological Society, 2012-09-01)The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), ranks among the most important pests of various palm species. The pest originates from South and Southeast Asia, but has expanded ... -
Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling
(Ecological Society of America, 2012-07-01)Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species' occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once bioclimatic envelopes are characterized, ... -
Multiscalar Ecological Characterization of Say's and Eastern Phoebes and their Zone of Contact in the Great Plains
(University of California Press, 2011-05-01)We assessed interspecific ecological relationships between Say's (Sayornis saya) and Eastern (S. phoebe) phoebes at three scales by developing ecological niche models at two spatial extents and comparing the models' ... -
Assessing Migratory Double Breeding Through Complementary Specimen Densities and Breeding Records
(University of California Press, 2012-02-01)We re-evaluate the plausibility that five species of birds that breed in late summer in northwestern Mexico are migratory double breeders that first bred earlier in the same season to the north. We use data aggregated from ... -
The Strange Career of DDT: Experts, Federal Capacity, and ‘Environmentalism’ in World War II
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Current Knowledge of Leishmania Vectors in Mexico: How Geographic Distributions of Species Relate to Transmission Areas
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2011)Leishmaniases are a group of vector-borne diseases with different clinical manifestations caused by parasites transmitted by sand fly vectors. In Mexico, the sand fly Lutzomyia olmeca olmeca is the only vector proven to ... -
Yaoundé-like virus in resident wild bird, Ghana
(Academic Journals, 2012-03-01)Tissue and swab samples from 551 wild birds collected in Ghana (October-November 2007) were assayed for alphaviruses, flaviviruses, and influenza A viruses using polymerase chain (PCR) techniques. One pool sample tested ... -
Spatial Scaling of Prevalence and Population Variation in Three Grassland Sparrows
(University of California Press, 2013-02)Henslow's Sparrows (Ammodramus henslowii) are distributed in tallgrass prairies in central North America; however, this species is restricted further to specific habitats within these prairies—large expanses with relatively ... -
The Functions of Myosin II and Myosin V Homologs in Tip Growth and Septation in Aspergillus nidulans
(Public Library of Science, 2012-02-16)Because of the industrial and medical importance of members of the fungal genus Aspergillus, there is considerable interest in the functions of cytoskeletal components in growth and secretion in these organisms. We have ... -
Species Richness and Range Size of the Terrestrial Mammals of the World: Biological Signal within Mathematical Constraints
(Public Library of Science, 2011-05-06)We explore global spatial diversity patterns for terrestrial mammals using as a tool range-diversity plots. These plots display simultaneously information about the number of species in localities and their spatial covariance ... -
Ecological Connectivity of Trypanosoma cruzi Reservoirs and Triatoma pallidipennis Hosts in an Anthropogenic Landscape with Endemic Chagas Disease
(Public Library of Science, 2012-09-26)Traditional methods for Chagas disease prevention are targeted at domestic vector reduction, as well as control of transfusion and maternal-fetal transmission. Population connectivity of Trypanosoma cruzi-infected vectors ... -
Potential Geographic Distribution of Hantavirus Reservoirs in Brazil
(Public Library of Science, 2013-12-31)Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is an emerging zoonosis in Brazil. Human infections occur via inhalation of aerosolized viral particles from excreta of infected wild rodents. Necromys lasiurus and Oligoryzomys nigripes ... -
Mapping Monkeypox Transmission Risk through Time and Space in the Congo Basin
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09-05)Monkeypox is a major public health concern in the Congo Basin area, with changing patterns of human case occurrences reported in recent years. Whether this trend results from better surveillance and detection methods, ... -
Conclusions about Niche Expansion in Introduced Impatiens walleriana Populations Depend on Method of Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2010-12-29)Determining the degree to which climate niches are conserved across plant species' native and introduced ranges is valuable to developing successful strategies to limit the introduction and spread of invasive plants, and ... -
Global Priority Conservation Areas in the Face of 21st Century Climate Change
(Public Library of Science, 2013-01-24)In an era when global biodiversity is increasingly impacted by rapidly changing climate, efforts to conserve global biodiversity may be compromised if we do not consider the uneven distribution of climate-induced threats. ...