The status of Hordeum brachyantherum in eastern Canada, with related discussions

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard R. Baum
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Main Area ◽  
Relict Population ◽  
The Status ◽  
Micromorphological Characters

Hordeum brachyantherum Nevski (H. boreale Scrib. et Sm.) was thought, hitherto, to be disjunct with its main area in Alaska, the Rockies, and adjacent parts, and of relict nature in Newfoundland and Labrador. This study, using micromorphological characters from the lodicules and epiblasts has revealed that the eastern relict population belongs to a different species, namely H. secalinum Schreb. Since H. brachyantherum is one of the species used as bases for Fernald's "nunatak" hypothesis, the relevance of the findings of this study are discussed with reference to the hypothesis. It is suggested that H. secalinum arrived in Newfoundland and Labrador from its native western Europe by anthropochoric means.

scholarly journals Integrative taxonomy of Nearctic and Palaearctic Aleocharinae: new species, synonymies, and records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1041 ◽  
pp. 27-99
Author(s):  
Adam J. Brunke ◽  
Mikko Pentinsaari ◽  
Jan Klimaszewski
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Dna Barcode ◽  
Integrative Taxonomy ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Rove Beetles ◽  
Adventive Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Taxonomic Studies ◽  
Holarctic Species

A long tradition of separate Nearctic and Palaearctic taxonomic studies of the diverse aleocharine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) has obscured the recognition of Holarctic species and detection of adventive species in both regions. Recently, integrated study of the two regions through detailed morphological comparisons and development of an authoritatively identified DNA barcode reference library has revealed the degree to which these two aleocharine faunas are interconnected, both naturally and through human activity. Here this approach is adopted to recognize new species, reveal Holarctic species, and recognize adventive species in both North America and Europe. The following new species are described: Isoglossa triangularis Klimaszewski, Brunke & Pentinsaari, sp. nov. from British Columbia; Gnypeta impressicollis Klimaszewski, Brunke & Pentinsaari, sp. nov., from Ontario, Maryland and North Carolina; Aloconota pseudogregaria Klimaszewski, Brunke & Pentinsaari, sp. nov., from Ontario and Virginia; and Philhygra pseudolaevicollis Klimaszewski, Brunke & Pentinsaari, sp. nov. from eastern Canada. Dasygnypeta velata and Philhygra angusticauda are revealed to be Holarctic species, resulting in the following synonymies: Dasygnypeta velata (Erichson, 1839) = Gnypeta minuta Klimaszewski & Webster, 2008, syn. nov. and Philhygra angusticauda (Bernhauer, 1909) = Atheta (Philhygra) pinegensis Muona, 1983, syn. nov. The Nearctic species Hylota ochracea (and genus Hylota), Thecturota tenuissima, and Trichiusa robustula are newly reported from the Palaearctic region as adventive, resulting in the following synonymies: Hylota ochracea Casey, 1906 = Stichoglossa (Dexiogyia) forticornis Strand, 1939, syn. nov.; Thecturota tenuissima Casey, 1893 = Atheta marchii Dodero, 1922, syn. nov.; and Trichiusa robustula Casey, 1893 = T. immigrata Lohse, 1984, syn. nov. The Palaearctic species Amarochara forticornis, Anomognathus cuspidatus, Oligota pumilio, and Parocyusa rubicunda are newly confirmed from the Nearctic region as adventive, resulting in the following synonymies: Parocyusa rubicunda (Erichson, 1837) = Chilopora americana Casey, 1906, syn. nov. and Anomognathus cuspidatus (Erichson, 1839) = Thectura americana Casey, 1893, syn. nov. The genus Dasygnypeta, sensu nov. is newly reported from North America, Paradilacra is newly reported from eastern North America, and Haploglossa is newly reported from Canada, resulting in the following synonymy: Paradilacra densissima (Bernhauer, 1909) = Gnypeta saccharina Klimaszewski & Webster, 2008, syn. nov. Native Cyphea wallisi is newly reported from across Canada and C. curtula is removed from the Nearctic fauna. The status of both Gyrophaena affinis and Homalota plana is uncertain but these species are no longer considered to be adventive in North America. Three new combinations are proposed: Dasygnypeta baranowskii (Klimaszewski, 2020) and D. nigrella (LeConte, 1863) (both from Gnypeta) and Mocyta scopula (Casey, 1893) (from Acrotona). Dolosota Casey, 1910, syn. nov. (type species Eurypronota scopula Casey), currently a subgenus of Acrotona, is therefore synonymized with Mocyta Mulsant & Rey, 1874. Additionally, four new Canadian records and 18 new provincial and state records are reported.

scholarly journals On Dugesia Gonocephala from Western Europe

1980 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. de Vries ◽  
Ian R. Ball
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Classical Concept ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The Status

Dugesia gonocephala s.l. is often considered to be a “superspecies” comprising numerous component “microspecies” which are morphologically, karyologically, and reproductively delimited. We have studied populations of D. gonocephala from France, Belgium and The Netherlands and found them to be fairly uniform in respect of most features studied. Nevertheless, discrepancies between them and the “classical” concept of this species as embodied in the literature have raised doubts as to the status and identity of D. gonocephala s. str. A proper understanding of the relationships of the D. gonocephala group can not be obtained without resolution of this problem.

scholarly journals MtDNA Analyses on Hair Samples Confirm Cougar, Puma concolor, Presence in Southern New Brunswick, Eastern Canada

2006 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 438 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.-S. Bertrand ◽  
S. Kenn ◽  
D. Gallant ◽  
E. Tremblay ◽  
L. Vasseur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Puma Concolor ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Hair Samples ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Range

For the last 40 years, the presence of Cougars (Puma concolor) in eastern Canada has been highly controversial. The purpose of this study was to collect physical evidence of Cougars using a passive detection method. Baited hair-traps combined with camera-traps were installed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. DNA analyses on two hair samples confirmed that the species was present in southern New Brunswick in 2003. A footprint photographed after an observation of a Cougar by reliable observers was examined by experts and was consistent with a Cougar footprint. Additional data are required to determine the status of Cougars in the northeastern part of its historical range.

The Structured Dependence of the Elderly as a Recent Development: Some Sceptical Historical Thoughts

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Population History ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
North West ◽  
Kinship System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTThere has recently emerged in the writings of those who have adopted an overtly ‘radical’ approach to social work and the welfare state, a coherent interpretation of how the status of older persons is lowered in the course of the development of industrial capitalism. The focus in these recent writings is on the social creation of dependent status and the structural determinants of the competitive relationship between elderly individuals and younger adults in the labour market. This paper reviews the arguments of this school of thought arguing firstly that it fails to take sufficient account of the longer term population history of England, suggesting that the contrast between the middle and later twentieth century and the nineteenth century is apparently so marked largely because of the atypicality of the latter period when high fertility and rapid demographic growth produced an historical minimum for the proportion of the elderly in the total population. A second failure in this recent radical or marxist research is that it also does not take sufficient account of the kinship system in north west Europe which appears to have created a situation of structured dependency of the elderly on the collectivity irrespective of the specific mode of production. Pre-industrial north west Europeans exhibited a striking contrast in this particular cultural trait with many, indeed most non-industrial societies outside Western Europe or regions populated by emmigrants from that area.

The Goniatite Zones of the Namurian

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. S. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Novaya Zemlya ◽  
One Stage ◽  
The North ◽  
Faunal Succession ◽  
The Status ◽  
Zones And Subzones

Recent work, both published and unpublished, has considerably increased our knowledge of the goniatite succession in the Namurian of western Europe and the various zones and subzones can now be defined more precisely than hitherto. The major divisions of the Namurian of most value are the former “genus zones” each now raised to the status of an age. Names for these divisions were instituted by Bisat (1928), and were redefined by Hudson and Cotton (1943). The various zones and subzones into which the stages are divided are shown on page 2. The zones differ little from those of previous authors: an attempt has been made to give them equal value and, where possible, the zonal indices in any one stage are of the same genus, thus helping to avoid the confusion caused by the choice as zonal indices of forms of different faunal phase. Neither zonal or subzonal indices are constant in their range in their respective divisions—many of them are confined to a faunal band within the subzone, a few extend into a neighbouring division. The following brief notes are based mainly on the faunal succession of the north of England. The published details of the goniatite faunas in Belgium, Holland, Westphalia, and to a certain extent in Silesia show that the succession there is the same. Comparable forms occur elsewhere as in the Pyrenees, North Africa, Novaya Zemlya, Donetz Basin, Indo-China, Siberia, and U.S.A. The boundaries of the Namurian are those decided on at the Heerlen Congress on Carboniferous Stratigraphy (Jongmans and Gothan, 1937).

Salt marshes of Atlantic Canada: their ecology and distribution

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 455-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Roberts ◽  
Alexander Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Salt Marshes ◽  
Anthropogenic Influences ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Oil Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
Domestic Use ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Offshore Oil

This paper reviews the status of research on the Atlantic salt marshes of eastern Canada. The floristics, habitats, and biophysical aspects of the Atlantic salt marshes are described and aspects relating to anthropogenic influences on the Atlantic marshes are discussed in the context of contemporary rural settlement and vulnerability to offshore oil development. Guidelines for environment management, protection, and rehabilitation research are proposed. Such guidelines are deemed important since more than half the 33 000 ha of salt marshes in Nova Scotia have been dyked for agriculture. Most of the salt-marsh habitats in Newfoundland have a high degree of domestic grazing, even though the marshes are small in size and rare in occurrence. The least disturbed in terms of domestic use are the Labrador salt marshes which, although grazed by migratory ducks and geese, have not yet been influenced by man's activities. In addition, the Labrador salt marshes are discussed and compared with the northern marshes of arctic Canada in terms of their ecology and formation.

Studies of Predators of the Balsam Woolly Aphid, Adelges piceae (Ratz.) (Homoptera: Adelgidae) VI. Aphidecta obliterata (L.) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), an Introduced Predator in Eastern Canada,

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 596-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Brown ◽  
R. C. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Winter Conditions ◽  
Introduced Predator ◽  
Woolly Aphid ◽  
Adelges Piceae ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Made In

Aphidecta obliterata (L.) is a common predator on conifer-infesting adelgids and aphids in Western Europe, including Scandinavia and the British Isles (Wylie, 1958b). The life cycle in Europe and descriptions of the various stages have been published (Weise, 1892; Portevin, 1931; Van Emden, 1949; Van Dinther, 1951; Wylie, 1958a). Beginning in 1941 several attempts have been made to introduce this species into Eastern Canada against the balsam woolly aphid, Adelges piceae (Ratz.). The initial liberations from England and Germany were apparently unsuccessful due to the inability of the insect to survive the Canadian winter conditions. Later collections were made in Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland (Table I) from areas where the winter conditions more closely resemble those in Canada. These liberations also proved unsuccessful. The present paper brings together all available information on the liberations and related experiments olbtained during the liberation years.

scholarly journals Re-orienting the ‘West’? The Transnational Debate on the Status of the ‘West’ in the Debates among Islamist Intellectuals and Students from the 1970s to the Present

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
Farish A. Noor
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Status ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S

This paper will look at the process of transnational transfer of ideas, beliefs and value-systems, with a special emphasis on the transfer of Islamist ideas and ideals through the vector of student movements and organisations that were set up in Western Europe and North America as well as the rise of a new generation of Islamist intellectuals in Malaysia in the late 1960s for whom the idea of the ‘West’ was turned on its head and re-cast in negative terms. It begins by looking at how the ‘West’ was initially cast in positive terms as the ideal developmental model by the first generation of post-colonial elites in Malaysia, and how – as a result of the crisis of governance and the gradual decline in popularity of the ruling political coalition – the ‘West’ was subsequently re-cast in negative terms by the Islamists of the 1960s and 1970s who sought instead to turn Malaysia into an Islamic society from below. As a consequence of this dialectical confrontation between the ruling statist elite and the nascent Islamist opposition in Malaysia, the idea of the ‘West’ has remained as the central constitutive Other to Islam and Muslim identity, and this would suggest that the Islamist project of the1970s to the present remains locked in a mode of oppositional dialectics that nonetheless requires the presence of the ‘West’ as its constitutive Other, be it in positive or negative terms.

Preface

2006 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. iv
Author(s):  
Graham J. Bodwell
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Aromatic Compounds ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Aromatic Molecules ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Structural Aspects

_ The most easterly point of North America was the setting for the 11th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-11), which took place on 14-18 August 2005 in the picturesque harbor city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. An atypically small, but nevertheless enthusiastic, group of 135 delegates representing 17 countries and 64 academic and industrial institutions participated in ISNA-11. The scientific program consisted of 107 posters (two sessions), 26 plenary lectures, and the Nozoe lecture, which was presented by Prof. Koichi Komatsu of Kyoto University.The inaugural ISNA meeting was held in Sendai, Japan in 1970. Since then, ISNA meetings have been held at three- to four-year intervals at locations that cycle between Asia, North America, and Europe. In its infancy, the ISNA community was focused primarily on the definition and quantification of aromaticity, as well as the synthesis and study of compounds that exhibited the phenomenon, whatever it may be. Nourished by advances in synthetic methodology, analytical techniques, separation capabilities, and computational power, ISNA has blossomed over the intervening 35 years to embody a much broader and deeper set of interests. In particular, the twin issues of function and applications have emerged as integral components of ISNA's collective being.The scientific topics of ISNA-11 were selected with an eye toward balancing the traditional areas of interest with its expansion in new directions. The 15 articles that appear in this issue embody these themes, which include:the synthesis of aromatic compoundstheoretically interesting aromatic moleculesstructural aspects of aromaticityaromatic compounds for devicesfullerenes and nanotubesmolecular switches and machinesmacrocyclic aromatic compoundsDebate about the status and future direction of ISNA was actively encouraged, and the overwhelming response was that ISNA is more vibrant and relevant than ever before. It is healthy and growing in many ways. It was therefore decided to move subsequent ISNA meetings to a two-year cycle. This will commence with ISNA-12, which will be held on Awaji Island (located near Kobe) in Japan on 22-27 July 2007. Professor Yoshito Tobe (Osaka University) will serve as conference chair. The responsibility for ISNA-13 was also awarded. It will be organized by Prof. François Diederich (ETH Zürich) and will be held at a yet to be determined European location in 2009.Graham BodwellRik TykwinskiConference Editors

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