Marine tourism has become one of the fastest growing areas within the tourism industry. With the increased use of marine environments comes the need for informed planning and sustainable management as well as for the ...

A yeast-like fungus producing a large amount of extracellular polysaccharide was isolated from the biogas reactors at North Wyke Research, UK (latitude, 50 degrees 46'29 '' N; longitude, 35 degrees 5'23 '' W). This strain ...

Orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata) is a common perennial grass that is frequently found in woodland edges, rough grassland, meadows and permanent pastures. In the UK and continental Europe, orchard grass, together with ...

Background and Aims: There is a widely used crude method to estimate the age of hedgerows (Hooper¿s rule) based on species richness. The aim of this study was to try and establish a similar field method for estimating the ...

Hybridization is an important cause of abrupt speciation. Hybrid speciation without a change in ploidy (homoploid hybrid speciation) is well-established in plants but has also been reported in animals and fungi. A notable ...

We present results of observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) made using the telescopes of the MERLIN and EISCAT networks in which the beam separation approached 2000 km, much larger than in any previous IPS ...

The role of American intelligence in the Cuban missile crisis is crucial to understanding perceptions and judgements of key actors in October 1962. Dino Brugioni’s Eyeball to Eyeball provides a detailed ‘insider’s’ account ...

In this paper we describe a system for facial feature detection and tracking using a 3D extension of the Constrained Local Model (CLM) (Cristinacce and Cootes, 2006) algorithm. The use of a 3D shape model allows improved ...