The impact of ecology and biogeography on legume diversity, endemism, and phylogeny in the Caribbean region: a new direction in historical biogeography.
The legume family is so well represented in the Caribbean that if a preserve was needed somewhere on earth to harbor all of the primary lineages in this family, the flora of just Cuba would suffice. Molecular phylogenetic, biogeographic, and evolutionary rates analysis all suggest that legume diversity and...

Lo top contra el envejecimiento: implante de placenta y transferencia plaquetaria: hoy muchas mujeres recurren a estos tratamientos de vanguardia, que las ayuda a combatir los efectos indeseables del paso del tiempo.
[ILUSTRACIÓN OMITIR] Desde Europa han llegado a México dos tratamientos para quienes, con el paso de los años, comienzan a nótar los estragos del proceso de envejecimiento y desean proyectar una mejor apariencia. Se trata del implante de placenta y la transferencia plaquetaria, cuyos resultados positivos han...

Batalla contra la celulitis: aunque no hay cura definitiva para la piel con apariencia de cáscara de naranja, existen diversos métodos que ayudan a mejorar su aspecto.
Te ves en el espejo y ¡zaz!: descubres en la piel de tus caderas unos como nudos apretados poco atractivos, que además aparecen en el nacimiento de tus glúteos: es la temida celulitis. ¡Qué horror! Sobre todo ahora que estabas por estrenar bikini. Pero si te sirve de consuelo,...

Medievalism and exoticism in the music of Dead Can Dance.
In 1991, the alternative rock band Dead Can Dance released an album that caught the attention of music reviewers by constructing an aural allegiance to the Middle Ages. Suitably called A Passage in Time, the album was described as imitating medieval chant, troubadour and trouvere music, Latin hymns, and...

Ramos, Aaron Gamaliel and Angel Israel Rivera, (eds.). Islands at the Crossroads: Politics in the Non-Independent Caribbean.
Ramos, Aaron Gamaliel and Angel Israel Rivera, (eds.). Islands at the Crossroads: Politics in the Non-Independent Caribbean. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2001. In Islands at the Crossroads: Politics in the Non-Independent Caribbean, Puerto Rican scholars Aaron Gamaliel Ramos and Angel Israel Rivera have assembled a collection...

Plant phenology, leaf traits and leaf litterfall of contrasting life forms in the arid Patagonian Monte, Argentina.
Abstract Question: Do coexisting plant life forms differ in overall phenology, leaf traits and patterns of leaf litterfall? Location: Patagonian Monte, Chubut Province, Argentina. Methods: We assessed phenology, traits of green and senesced leaves and the pattern of leaf litterfall in 12 species...

Plant functional group composition and large-scale species richness in European agricultural landscapes.
Abstract Question: Which are the plant functional groups responding most clearly to agricultural disturbances? Which are the relative roles of habitat availability, landscape configuration and agricultural land use intensity in affecting the functional composition and diversity of vascular plants in agricultural landscapes? Location: 25 agricultural...

Trait differences between grass species along a climatic gradient in South and North America.
Abstract Question: Are trait differences between grasses along a gradient related to climatic variables and/or photosynthetic pathway? Location: Temperate grassland areas of South and North America. Methods: In a common garden experiment, we cultivated [C.sub.3] and [C.sub.4] grasses from grasslands under different climatic conditions, and...

Are traits measured on pot grown plants representative of those in natural communities?
Abstract Question: The quantification of functional traits in natural communities can be difficult (e.g. root traits, RGR). Can functional traits measured on pot grown plants be reliably applied to natural communities? Alternatively, can below-ground plant traits be predicted from above-ground traits? Location: Southeastern Australia. ...

Factors associated with risky consumption and heavy episodic drinking among Spanish university students *.
HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING (HED) is an emergent pattern of alcohol use among Spanish students characterized by the consumption of high quantities of alcohol in a short span of time. HED is different from risky consumption (RC), which is characterized by a high consumption of alcohol but not necessarily in...