CURRENT AND PREVIOUS SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF OILSEED RAPE FIELDS INFLUENCE THE ABUNDANCE AND THE BODY SIZE OF A SOLITARY WILD BEE, ANDRENA CINERARIA, IN PERMANENT GRASSLANDS.

Wild bees are essential pollinators whose survival partly depends on the capacity of their environment to offer a sufficient amount of nectar and pollen.Semi-natural habitats and mass-flowering crops such as oilseed rape provide abundant floristic resources for bees.The aim of this PLS study was to evaluate the influences of the spatial distributio

In the Abruzzi village of Cocullo (Italy), each year, on May 1st, local snake hunters (known as Serpari) display colubrids, captured in the wild, to commemorate the ancient ritual of San Domenico.The ascomycete Ophidiomyces ophidiicola (Oo) is the causative agent of ophidiomycosis, an emerging disease with sublethal effects.Skin lesions, such as Pu

After being a matter of hot debate for years, the presence of lipid membranes in the last common ancestor of extant organisms (i.e., the cenancestor) now begins to be generally accepted.By contrast, cenancestral cell walls have attracted less attention, probably owing to the large diversity of cell walls that exist in the three domains of Solar Mou

Introduction Given the complex causal origins of many non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and the complex landscapes in which policies designed to tackle them are made and unfold, the need for systems thinking and complexity science (STCS) in developing effective policy solutions has been emphasised.While numerous methods informed by STCS have been a