USE OF TREE SPECIES BY WHITE-THROATED TREERUNNER (PYGARRHICHAS ALBOGULARIS KING) IN A SECONDARY NATIVE FOREST OF SOUTHERN CHILE

Use of tree species by White-throated treerunner (Pygarrhichas albogularis King) in a secondary native forest of southern Chile

ABSTRACT In forest ecosystems, numerous species of insectivorous birds use certain tree species as feeding and nesting substrates.Between 2009 and 2010, the use of different floristic components as feeding substrate by the Pygarrhichas albogularis King, 1831 was evaluated in a southern Chilean secondary native forest.From a total of 13 trees and bu

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Electronic arbitration in international private disputes

Electronic arbitration is an important Brake Generator means of dispute settlement because of its speed, flexibility and ease, which may not exist in the ordinary judiciary or even in ordinary arbitration, whether internal or external.Ordinary arbitration, along with lengthy a procedures and high costs, does not suit the speed that trade needs nowa

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China’s Urban and Rural Development Significantly Affects the Pattern of Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

Increasing human activities have greatly influenced the ecosystem and the use of ecological resources, and the unbalanced urban–rural development in China (urban and rural areas being two major bases of human activities) has always been accompanied by heterogeneous ecological effects.Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) is an int

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Inconsistency of modified gravity in cosmology

We show that there is a fundamental flaw in the Desk Organizers application of modified gravity theories in cosmology, taking f(R) gravity as a paradigmatic example.This theory contains a scalar degree of freedom that couples to the matter stress-energy tensor but not to gravitational energy.However, when applied to cosmology this theory is unable

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