The SAFARI 2000 – Kalahari Transect Wet Season Campaign of year 2000

Over 50 scientists from eight different countries coordinated research efforts in the Kalahari sand mass in Zambia and Botswana during the 2000 wet season as a part of the Southern African Regional Science Initiative – Kalahari Transect Wet Season Campaign (S2K‐KT Wet Season Campaign). The work focused on change in ecological processes along the International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme‐designated Kalahari Transect (KT). Topics included ecosystem structure, function, biogeochemistry, and modeling at the patch, landscape and regional scale. The KT of southern and central Africa follows a sharp precipitation gradient within an otherwise climatically and geographically similar region that contains a widely distributed, physically uniform soil and relatively little variation in elevation. This paper outlines the focus of the SAFARI 2000 research campaign as it relates to this study area and provides references to archived data sets generated during the study. It also describes vegetation patterns, climate, and 2000 wet season meteorological conditions for the region.     

Authenticating (and Inauthenticating) Local Moral Worlds: Ethnographies of Interpersonal Experience

Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless. Robert Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 308 pp.
Women in the American Welfare Trap. Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 206 pp.
Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in. Manhattan Residence. Alisse Waterston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 235 pp.
Sidewalk. Mitchell Duneier. with photographs by Ovie Carter New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 383 pp.     

First record of the drumming signals of stoneflies Capnopsis Morton, 1896 and Protonemura Kempny, 1898 genera (Plecoptera,Capniidae and Nemouridae)

The male drumming signal of Capnopsis schilleri is studied for the first time. It is a monophasic call composed of 4–8 beats with a decreasing frequency. In the present paper, the drumming signals of some Protonemura species are also recorded and described for the first time both in males (Protonemura alcazaba, Protonemura meyeri and Protonemura navacerrada) and females (P. meyeri, P. navacerrada and Protonemura pyrenaica). The male call is very homogeneous in all the studied species and they consist of a repetition of 2–11 sequences of 6–31 beats, with an inter‐beat interval ranging from 0.034 to 0.088 s. The females have monophasic long signals consisting of a repetition of 5 to 109 beats with an inter‐beat interval of 0.061 to 0.159 s. It is extraordinary that females produced signals when males were absent, and so the female signal can be also considered as a call and not only an answer, as usually pointed out in stoneflies.     

From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954.

From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. Lee D. Baker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 325 pp.     

The genus Archidendron (Leguminosae – Mimosoideae)

An account is given of the morphology and the taxonomy of the Asian, Australian and Pacific genus Archidendron (Leguminosae – Mimosoideae). A new infrageneric classification based on morphological data is presented, the genus being subdivided in 8 series. The phylogeny of the genus is discussed, the base of discussion being all available morphological, palynological and wood–anatomical characters. The presence/absence of stipules, the length of the staminal tube compared with that of the corolla–tube, the sessile/stipitate ovary(–ies), the morphology of the pods and the wood–anatomy have been particularly useful in determining the evolutionary trends within the genus. Analyses of the geographical range of selected character states are presented. The data suggest a Central – W. Malesian origin of the genus. The series endemic to the E. Malesian – Australian area have probably evolved more recently. The pluricarpellate condition of the flowers in several species endemic to the E. Malesian and Australian area is considered to be a derived character state. The following new taxa are proposed: Ser. Calycinae Nielsen, ser. Ptenopae Nielsen, ser. Bellae Nielsen, Archidendron falcatum Nielsen, A. cockburnii Nielsen, A. sabahense Nielsen, A. fagifolium (Bl. ex Miq.) Nielsen var. borneense Nielsen, A. kunsrteri (Prain) Nielsen subsp. ashtonii Nielsen, A. ellipticum (Bl.) Nielsen subsp. cordifoliolatum Nielsen. New combinations are proposed in the Malesian species formerly referred to Abarema, Zygia and Morolobium by Kostermans. Keys to and an enumeration of the species are presented.     

The morphology of the larval stages of three species (Arrenurus mediorotundatus Thor, 1898; Arrenurus conicus Piers 1894; and Arrenurus cylindratus Piers, 1896) of the Megaluracarus subgenus (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae)

The morphology of the larval stages of three species (Arrenurus mediorotundatus, Arrenurus conicus and Arrenurus cylindratus) belonging to the Megaluracarus subgenus is described. Particular attention is paid to the common characters of the three species in which they differ from the other species belonging to the other subgenera. These are: the shape of the excretory pore plate, the shape of the dorsal plate, the length of coxal plate II medial margin and the C1-CpI, C4-CpIII distances. Other characters differ between the three species also. These are: the shape of the dorsal plate, the shape of coxal plate III, the shape of excretory pore plate and the presence or absence of secondary setae of the IFe3 setae.     

The identification of coca (Erythroxylutn species): 1860–1910

The taxonomic history of plants known under the name 'coca' is complex. During the period 1860–1910, botanists, horticulturalists and pharmacists became increasingly interested in the varieties of coca then known in cultivation. A debate over the correct identity of the cultivated cocas ensued which continues today. During the latter part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, several new taxa were described from cultivation which significantly -complicated the taxonomy. Notable contributors were D. Morris in Kew, W. Burck in Bogor, H. H. Rusby in New York and O. E. Schulz in Berlin. In order to evaluate the complex interaction among these workers, it is necessary to examine the problem chronologically. Two cultivated species of commercial coca are now recognized: Erythroxylutn coca Lam. and Erythroxylutn nooogranatense (Morris) Hieron., each of which has one distinct variety in cultivation: E. coca var. ipadu Plowman and E. novogranatense var. truxillense (Rusby) Plowman, respectively.     

The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography (1910–2000)

The Mexican Aristocracy: An Expressive Ethnography (1910–2000) . Hugo G. Nutini. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 386 pp.     

The Karyotype of the Brightbelly Sculpin Microcottus sellaris (Gilbert, 1896) (Cottidae: Myoxocephalinae)

Russian Journal of Marine Biology - The karyotype of the brightbelly sculpin Microcottus sellaris (Gilbert, 1896) (family Cottidae) from the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk has been studied for the...     

The genus Cabomba (Cabombaceae)–a taxonomic study

The genus Cabomba (Cabombaceae) is revised. Five species and three varieties are recognized: C. aquatica, C. palaeformis, C. furcata, C. haynesii and C. caroliniana including var. caroliniana , var. pulcherrima , and var. flavida var. nov. A basic chromosome number of x = 13 is proposed. Special emphasis has been given to pollen and seed morphology as revealed by SEM studies.