Agricultural droughts are extreme events which are often a result of interplays between multiple hydro-meteorological processes.Therefore, assessing drought occurrence, extent, duration and intensity is complex and requires the combined use of multiple variables, such as temperature, rainfall, soil moisture (SM) and vegetation state.The benefit of
Poaching for ivory has caused disturbances in the behaviour of elephants.The nature and magnitude of such disturbance are not yet fully understood.Here, we studied the daily activity Watch Cases cycles of 10 elephants tracked for a minimum of two years each in the Samburu ecosystem in Kenya.The elephants were tracked over a spatial or temporal grad
Population studies of D.speciosa on fall / winter crops were conducted.Larvae were monitored on maize (Zea mays L.), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and black oats (Avena strigosa Schreb.) and beetles on soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Mill., maize, common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), wheat and black oats from March 23, 2001 to August 24, 2001.Soybean, m
The movement of fluid and solutes across biological membranes facilitates the transport of nutrients for living organisms and maintains the fluid and osmotic pressures in biological systems.Understanding the pressure balances across membranes is crucial for studying fluid and electrolyte homeostasis in living systems, and is an area of active resea