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... honorary consul City Diary Look again City Diary Termite night City Diary Edwardian Hotels Business Equity Prices ...
2004 - Gale Group | TDA
Baptiste Wijas, Habacuc Flores‐Moreno, Steven Allison, Luciana Chavez Rodriguez, Alexander W. Cheesman, Lucas A. Cernusak, Rebecca Clement, William K. Cornwell, Elizabeth S. Duan, Paul Eggleton, Marc Rosenfield, Abbey R. Yatsko, Amy E. Zanne,
... wood biomass is found in tropical ecosystems, where termites are also important wood consumers. Given the dependence of microbial decomposition on moisture with termite decomposition thought to be more resilient to dry ... we investigated the relative roles of microbes and termites in wood decomposition across precipitation gradients in space, ... bags with non‐native pine wood blocks, allowing termite access to half the bags. Bags were collected ... in wet conditions with greater relative influence of termites in dry conditions. Consistent with expectations, microbial‐mediated ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2024 - Wiley | Functional Ecology
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... diary Beatrice: a passion for power, Science report Termite plays host in an odd symbiosis, Lawyers still ...
1982 - Gale Group | TDA
Stephanie J. Law, Habacuc Flores‐Moreno, Alexander W. Cheesman, Rebecca Clement, Marc Rosenfield, Abbey R. Yatsko, Lucas A. Cernusak, James W. Dalling, Thomas Canam, Isra Abo Iqsaysa, Elizabeth S. Duan, Steven Allison, Paul Eggleton, Amy E. Zanne,
... contributions of biotic decay agents, particularly microbes and termites, under different climates and across species with diverse ... n = 6) in northeast Australia, with and without termite access. For comparison, we also deployed standardized, non‐ ... pine blocks at both sites. We hypothesized that termites would increase rates of deadwood decay under conditions that limit microbial activity. Specifically, termite contributions to wood decay should be greater under ... wood species with traits that constrain microbial decomposers. Termite discovery of stems was surprisingly low with only ...
Tópico(s): Forest Insect Ecology and Management
2023 - Wiley | Journal of Ecology
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... Times Club Beryl the Peril Funday Times News Termite City Deputy Dink Mrdlean Rex and Tex Lord ...
1996 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Rongrong Xie, Chenchen Dong, Shengjie Wang, Blessing Danso, Mudasir A. Dar, Radhakrishna S. Pandit, Kiran D. Pawar, Alei Geng, Daochen Zhu, Xia Li, Qing Xu, Jianzhong Sun,
Fungus-growing termites are eusocial insects that represent one of the most efficient and unique systems for lignocellulose bioconversion, evolved from ... contributions to wood digestion in some fungus-growing termites is still inadequate. Hence, using the culture-dependent ... within the gut systems of three fungus-growing termites: Ancistrotermes pakistanicus, Odontotermes longignathus, and Macrotermes sp. A ... successfully isolated and identified from three fungus-growing termites using Avicel or xylan as the sole source ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2023 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Insects
Sean Abbott, Warren Weappa, Joseph Nemec, Gareth Williams, Gareth Penn, William Margrabe, Brian Scott, Robert Tyrrell, Stephen Grace, Halima Mohammed,
... Instruments Growing pains Steel Linde Shell Principal The termite hunter Face Value Barclays The trader's lament ...
1999 - Gale Group | The Economist
... sawdust ash (SDA) on the strength properties of termite reworked soil for pre and post engineering construction. Twelve disturbed subsoil samples; six termite reworked soil samples and six neighboring residual soils of each of the termite reworked soils were obtained in Akungba Akoko, South-western Nigeria. The termite reworked soil and the surrounding residual soil met ... requirement of a good sub-grade soil. However, termite reworked soil shows better geotechnical ratings when compared ... samples. This result attested to the fact that termites’ activities promote forces of attraction and adhesion among ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2023 - Springer Nature | International Journal of Geo-Engineering
M. A. Catty, Elizabeth Jennings, R. Langmaid, R. C. Horsnell, Neil Dewar, (Mrs.) M. E. Glover, Peter Brinson, Clarence Elliott, Glifford Collard, Mr. Macmilian, Elizabeth Nicholas, Harold Hobson, John P. Clayton, Kenneth B. Potter (Managing Director), Alan Melville, Timothy Beaumont, Anthony Greenbank, W. B. Yeats, Janice Elliott, James Margach Political Correspondent of The Sunday Times, Kenneth Pearson, J. W. Lambert, Maurice Edelman, Antony Terry, C. V. Hancock, Harmsworth, Julian Symons, Richard Kellett, Elizabeth Brunner, E. H. Ashton, Joyce Emerson, Elizabeth Good, J. E., Thomas Sangster, Henry Brandon, Ian Coulter The Sunday Times Industrial Correspondent, John Russell, Jack Cox, David Divine, F. B. Mallinson, James Margach The Sunday Times Political Correspondent, David Divine The Sunday Times Defence Correspondent, R. E. Miller, Vivian Jenkins, James Stuart, Cornelius Conyn, Tom Margerison, Robert Targett, Peter Willett, F. A., Robin Marlar, Rev. G. W. Butterworth Litt. D., Cyril Connolly, R. P. Greenwood, Raymond Mortimer, Marvin Kalb, Rt. Hon. Iain MacLeod M. P., Montgomery, Agatha Christie, Maxwell Boyd, Evelyn Irons, Peter Clifton, (Mrs.) Diane Munday, K. Harris, Wayland, Peter Cranmer, J. W. Naylor, Herbert Thearle, Lord Birkett, Roger Mortimer, James Wilson, John Raymond, Ernestine Carter, (Mrs.) Dorothy Worthington, Stephen Coulter, Gerald Osborne, Elizabeth Longford, Ian Coulter Industrial Correspondent of The Sunday Times, Richard Wilkins, Alan Wykes, Bill Sowerbutts, (Mrs.) Dorothy Borg, R. L. Hollands, R. C. Robertson-Glasgow, Michael Scott, Dilys Powell, F. Winterbourn, Terence Heelas, R. J. Pocock, L. S. Lowry, Merlin, Felix Aprahamian, Margaret Costa, Robert Robinson, Henry Longhurst, Laelia Goehr, Anthony Dunn, Brian Glanville, Maureen Williamson, (Mrs.) T. Kittel, Iain Lang, Elizabeth young, Contango, William Rees-Mogg City Editor of The Sunday Times, C. H. O'd. Alexander, George Schwartz, Maurice Wiggin, Atticus, Dr. A. N. Gilkes, Michael Ruddy, V. Sackville-West, James M. Little, A. E. Blakeney, Gordon Ross, C. M. Woodhouse, Joan Fox, J. E. Stevens, Kenneth Konstam, Humphrey Lyttelton, Elizabeth McCullough,
... Polio in Hull The Private Life of a Termite Via Heysham Fina Da Dook is a werry ...
1961 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Martyna Marynowska, David Sillam‐Dussès, Boris Untereiner, Dominika Klimek, Xavier Goux, Piotr Gawron, Yves Roisin, Philippe Delfosse, Magdalena Całusińska,
Termites are among the most successful insects on Earth and can feed on a broad range of organic matter at various stages of decomposition. The termite gut system is often referred to as a ... gardens, in the case of fungi-growing higher termites. The digestive tract of soil-feeding higher termites is characterised by radial and axial gradients of ... structure of residing microbial communities. Although soil-feeding termites account for 60% of the known termite species, their biomass degradation strategies are far less ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
2023 - BioMed Central | BMC Genomics
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... is no longer a shore thing Alliance Leicester Termite in need of a new image In Brief ...
1998 - Gale Group | TDA
The global economic impact of termites is estimated to be approximately USD 40 billion annually, and subterranean termites are responsible for about 80% of the total impact. Twenty-eight species of termites have been described as invasive, and these termites are spreading, partially due to global trade, making effective control methods essential. Termite control is complex, as is the biology and ... this social insect group. In the U.S., termite prevention and control (with claims of structural protection) ...
Tópico(s): Animal and Plant Science Education
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Insects
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... end, The Times Diary Can man emulate the termite? Ealing's first Sikh councillor The vogue according ...
1968 - Gale Group | TDA
Jigyasa Arora, Yukihiro Kinjo, Jan Šobotník, Aleš Buček, Crystal Clitheroe, Petr Stiblík, Yves Roisin, Lucia Žifčáková, Yung Chul Park, Kiyoon Kim, David Sillam‐Dussès, Vincent Hervé, Nathan Lo, Gaku Tokuda, Andreas Brune, Thomas Bourguignon,
Abstract Background Termites primarily feed on lignocellulose or soil in association with specific gut microbes. The functioning of the termite gut microbiota is partly understood in a handful ... a global understanding of the functional evolution of termite gut microbiota. Results We sequenced the gut metagenomes of 145 samples representative of the termite diversity. We show that the prokaryotic fraction of the gut microbiota of all termites possesses similar genes for carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolisms, ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
2022 - BioMed Central | Microbiome
P.H. Bosman, Madan Gopal Jajoo, J.D.A. Cuddy, John Eagleson, B.K. Desai, Jon Halliday, Roger Clegg, R.C. Mcderment, D. Linebaugh, Sir Geoffrey Agnew, M. Ramsden, Steven W. Oliver, C.J. Carlyle, D.S. Mehta, Denis Healey,
... s Gulfstream Aerospace Industrial Bank Of Japan (IBJ) Termite in the woodpile Climatic change Cruel clue Parkinson' ...
1983 - Gale Group | The Economist
Benjamin Wildermuth, Jens Oldeland, Carsten Arning, Felicitas Gunter, Ben J. Strohbach, Norbert Juergens,
Termite mounds contribute to the heterogeneity and productivity of many semi‐arid ecosystems worldwide. Regular spatial patterns of termite mounds are well documented but the underlying pattern‐ ... point pattern analyses to assess spatial distributions of termite mounds. We recorded 485 termite mounds in 2007 and 2019. Out of the investigated 142 active termite mounds in 2007, 81 were active 12 years ... distribution of Boscia albitrunca trees generally clustered around termite mounds, but did not cluster around young colonies. ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2022 - Wiley | Ecography
Ernest Newman, M. E. P., F. A. Secrett, A. T. Johnson, Hugh Molson, St. Thomas, Yarborough, David Hunter-Blair, Ralph Straus, J. M. Scott, Francis Iles, Professor R. G. Stapledon C. B. E., J. E. Neale, Sir Bertie Second, Sir Frederic Kenyon, Norman Bentwich, Richard Clowes, J. M. Bulloch, Doreen Wallace, Basil Maine, Eric Newton, E. V. Lucas, Philip Cabot, H. J. L. Beadnell, James Agate, F. J. Clarke, Milward Kennedy, A. G. Street, Walter Crick, Muriel Beckwith, Sydney W. Carroll, Arthur G. Street, E. H. Carr, Walter Gillard, Norman C. Aldridge, D. R. Gent, Desmond MacCarthy, K. Jansma (President), Atticus, A. J. Gray, Heather Charters Wilks, C. L., W. K. Scudamore, R. L. Hollands, Ernest A. Ebblewhite, Sir A. Geddes, De V. Payen-Payne, Edward Shanks, Dilys Powell, J. C. Arnold, Charles Williams, J. S. Collis, Allen Mawer, James F. Fitzgerald, H. E. Symons, H. F., Hamilton Price, G. Hunter, Ross Barker, Sir E. Denison Ross, Edward Shackleton,
... Drummond. 15s.) More about Termites Man and the Termite. By Herbert Noyes. (Peter Davies. 8s. 6d.) King, ...
1937 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Abstract Termites are a prototypical example of the ‘extended phenotype’ given their ability to shape their environments by constructing ... and cultivating fungus gardens. Such engineered structures provide termites with stable, protected habitats, and nutritious food sources, respectively. Recent studies have suggested that these termite-engineered structures harbour Actinobacteria-dominated microbial communities. In ... activities, and consequences of microbial communities associated with termite mounds, other nests, and fungus gardens. Culture-dependent ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
2022 - Oxford University Press | FEMS Microbiology Reviews
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News: Menuhin sister dies at 60, Termite-proof Bible given to an African monarch, Talks to end Metro plant strike fail, Pretoria hoping for delays at Namibia peace talks, ...
1981 - Gale Group | TDA
Shih-Ying Huang, Chun‐I Chiu, Yi-Ying Tsai, Weijie Li, Chia-Chien Wu, Hou‐Feng Li,
... the species composition and dispersal flight season of termites is crucial for termite management. The major obstacles to collecting such information ... shortage of workers to monitor and report on termite swarming. To overcome these difficulties, we launched a ... and pest management professionals were invited to collect termite samples. We created the website, Taiwan Termite Identification Service, on which populace could log the collection information, and ship termite samples to our laboratory for identification. We also ...
Tópico(s): Animal and Plant Science Education
2022 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Economic Entomology
Yong Zhou, A. Carla Staver, Andrew B. Davies,
Abstract Termites consume substantial amounts of plant material across tropical and subtropical ecosystems. During the process of lignocellulose digestion, the symbiotic methanogenesis within termites' guts produces the potent greenhouse gas methane (CH 4 ). Termites contribute an estimated 1%–5% of global CH ... with these estimates derived from the product of termite biomass and termite CH 4 production rate per unit of termite biomass. However, termite CH 4 production rates vary significantly across species, ...
Tópico(s): Animal and Plant Science Education
2022 - Wiley | Ecology
Joel S. Woon, David Atkinson, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Paul Eggleton, Catherine L. Parr,
The most diverse and abundant family of termites, the Termitidae, evolved in African tropical forests. They have since colonised grassy biomes such as savannas. These open environments have more extreme conditions ... are challenging for soft-bodied ectotherms, such as termites, to survive in, let alone become as ecologically dominant as termites have. Here, we quantified termite thermal limits to test the hypothesis that these physiological limits are wider in savanna termite species to facilitate their existence in savanna environments. ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2022 - Wiley | Journal of Animal Ecology
Thomas Chouvenc, Jan Šobotník, Michael S. Engel, Thomas Bourguignon,
Termites are a clade of eusocial wood-feeding roaches with > 3000 described species. Eusociality emerged ~ 150 million years ago in the ancestor of modern termites, which, since then, have acquired and sometimes lost ... series of adaptive traits defining of their evolution. Termites primarily feed on wood, and digest cellulose in ... gut microbes. Recent advances in our understanding of termite phylogenetic relationships have served to provide a tentative ... and their consequences on the ecological success of termites. While all "lower" termites rely on cellulolytic protists ...
Tópico(s): Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
2021 - Springer Nature | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Amsalu Tilahun, Wim Cornelis, Steven Sleutel, Abebe Nigussie, Bayu Dume, Éric Van Ranst,
Termites can play a localized prominent role in soil nutrient availability and cycling because mound materials are ... known if gradients of soil properties exist from termite mound to interspace sites. Studying both aspects would ... and 10 m away from mounds. In general, termite mounds were enriched in plant nutrients and SOC on Vertisols but not on Nitisols. Termite mounds constituted only 0.3 to 1.3% ... ha basis but nevertheless the immediate vicinity of termite mounds was a relative fertile hotspot. Hence, under ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Agriculture
Chao Guo, Bin Tuo, Hang Ci, En‐Rong Yan, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen,
... the feedback of tree functional traits, (deadwood‐feeding) termite populations and deadwood decomposition. We hypothesized that tree ... resource economic spectrum [WES]) supports the sustenance of termite populations via complementary food supplied through time, as ... of food quality, the consumption of deadwood by termites should hypothetically sustain deadwood turnover in a functionally ... We tested our hypothesis through an 18‐month termite‐exclusion decomposition experiment by incubating coarse (i.e. ... a healthy population of pangolins as the keystone termite predator, whereas another had lost its pangolins due ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2021 - Wiley | Journal of Ecology
Rebecca Clement, Habacuc Flores‐Moreno, Lucas A. Cernusak, Alexander W. Cheesman, Abbey R. Yatsko, Steven Allison, Paul Eggleton, Amy E. Zanne,
Termites are important ecosystem engineers in tropical habitats, with different feeding groups able to decompose wood, grass, ... and soil organic matter. In most tropical regions, termite abundance and species diversity are assumed to increase ... to be reversed, with lower species richness and termite abundance found in rainforest than drier habitats. The ... mechanisms underlying this pattern remain unclear. We compared termite assemblages (abundance, activity, diversity, and feeding group composition) ... to wet habitats, we observed dramatic decreases in termite abundance in both mounds and dead wood occupancy, ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
2021 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Termite colonies, composed of large numbers of siblings, develop an important caste-based division of labor; individuals ... intercaste chemical communications. For more than 50 years, termites have been known to use a variety of ... following pheromones have been chemically identified in various termites, other types of pheromones have not been elucidated ... have been successfully identified for several types of termite pheromones; accordingly, the details of the underlying pheromone ... review, we summarize both the functions of all termite pheromones identified so far and the chemical interactions ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2021 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution