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Peter's Family Cookbook combines delicious family recipes with with many humerous recollections and witticisims .
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Associational resistance is the process by which plants may gain protection from spatial associations with neighbouring plants. We tested whether association with an unpalatable alga, Dictyopteris acrostichoides, affects the abundance and colonisation behaviour of the herbivorous amphipod Peramphithoe parmerong on its preferred host alga Sargassum linearifolium. Despite predictions, natural densities on S. linearifolium when surrounded by D. acrostichoides were higher than on isolated individuals of S. linearifolium. Colonisation experiments in the laboratory and the field tested the hypotheses that the observed variation in field abundance with algal neighbourhood was due to variation in the size of habitat patches, physical obstruction of host finding by D. acrostichoides and variation in the relative abundance of S. linearifolium and D. acrostichoides. None of these possible mechanisms was found to significantly alter rates of amphipod colonisation on the scales of individuals selecting among algal pieces in the laboratory or among habitat patches in the field. The failure of colonisation processes to explain observed variation in natural amphipod densities suggests that post-colonisation processes such as survival or emigration may vary with the spatial associations among algae. .
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Arid Environments, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Tissue aging in unpalatable grasses appears to be associated with a rapid decay in nutritional value because grazers usually start to avoid them at early stages of maturity. The objective of the present study was to determine and compare seasonal variations in fiber, lignin, crude protein and minerals (P, Ca, Mg, K and Na) in a palatable (Stipa clarazii) and in an unpalatable (Stipa eriostachya; syn: S. gynerioides) grass species, following a summer burning in central Argentina. Fiber and lignin contents were higher in the unpalatable grass than in the palatable grass, whereas crude protein and mineral contents were lower in the former than in the latter species. In both species, fiber and lignin increased over time, whereas crude protein and mineral contents declined with time. However, temporal changes were more pronounced and faster in the unpalatable grass than in the palatable grass. Our results suggest that the relatively high nutritive value of the unpalatable species at early plant growth stages following burning may create a window of time, in which it may be more readily grazed by livestock. .
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