Competition plays an important role in the replacement of native species by alien plants. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to investigate whether the competition pattern of alien Robinia pseudoacacia L. and native Quercus acutissima Carr. is affected by soil sterilization. Physiological traits, such as gas-exchange parameters and chlorophyll (Chl) content, and growth traits, such as the biomass accumulation of the two species, were examined in natural soil or in soil sterilized with benomyl. The results show that native Q. acutissima inhibits the growth of R. pseudoacacia in natural soil. When the two plants coexisted and competed under sterilization treatment, R. pseudoacacia was less inhibited by Q. acutissima and the competition of R. pseudoacacia decreased the growth of Q. acutissima in terms of biomass, Chl a, Chl b, total Chl, and Chl a/b. These results suggest that soil sterilization benefits the growth of R. pseudoacacia and changes the competition pattern by the changed soil biota. Soil sterilization increased the biomass of root nodules, which ultimately benefits the growth of R. pseudoacacia and root nodule bacteria may be important in the dispersal and invasion process of nitrogen-fixing alien plants such as R. pseudoacacia., H. Chen ... [et al.]., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Interspecific competition between fat hen (Chenopodium album L.) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L. NSH-33 hybrid) in pure and mixed stands of identical plant density (35 x 35 cm spacing) was studied in smáli plot field experiments under drought stress. Decrease in net photosynthetic rate (E^) due to interspecific competition was not statistically significant in either species in the first part of the growing season. During drought stress, however, significantly decreased in sunflower, while it hardly changed in C. album in the same (interspecific) competition situation. In pure stands, transpiration rate (E) was lower in C. album than in sunflower and this difference was more pronoímced in mixed stands. Consequently, C. album showed a very high water use efficiency (WUE) especially in the shade layer, which accounts for a larger part of the canopy in this species. By contrast, WUE in sunflower decreased, especially in the sun layer of the mixed stand. Interspecific competition reduced the total biomass more severely in sunflower than in C. album by the end of the growing season. The reduction was especially remarkable in the biomass of the reproductive organs. Reproductive effort expressed as reproductive allocation was higher in C. album than in sunflower. Hence the reproductive effort in sunflower and C. album in both intra- and interspecific competition seemed to be correlated with WUE, which is a prime characteristic of drought stress tolerance.
Abundance of the European hare (Lepus europaeus Pllas, 1778) has been declining dramatically in Europe. In the framework of our long-term ecological studies in the juniper forest at Bugas, Hungary, we have also monitored its population abundance. At the ginning of our researches the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus Linné, 1758) had been the dominant herbivore species there, but as a result of two diseases in 1994 and 1995 they disappeared. Earlier studies had showed competition between these two species, therefore we expected a significant increase in the local hare abundance after the extinction of rabbits. Our results, however, did not comply with this supposition. Nonetheless, experimental comparison of the vegetation in grazed and ungrazed plots proved that rabbits had been significantly decreasing the vegetation cover, especially that of grasses; meanwhile hares did not. Although grasses were the main food components of both species, their moderate diet overlap throughout the year does not suggest a food competition between them. All these findings show that population size of hares was not significantly limited by rabbits due to trophic overlap. Competitive effect of rabbit on sympatric hares had been low or it was expressed by the depreciation of other non-investigated population characteristics.
Th is article critically engages in the perplexed ontology of the complaint, which crosses the boundaries between the personal and the public and at the same time undermines the presuppositions organizing said division within the academic workplace. A feminist counterpublic – as Nancy Fraser defi nes it – opens ways of opposing the existing inequalities by producing a discursive space of critique of the status quo from an oppressed or marginalized position. Following the analysis of the complaint off ered by Sara Ahmed, this article emphasizes the political dimension of the complaint, showing how it actually needs to become something else, probably more than a mere procedure, to bring any change. Th e passage from complaint to counterpublic built here is an eff ort to combine the critique of academic procedures of justice as potentially discriminatory practices within neoliberal academia with a suggestion that perhaps a more public and labour rights oriented strategy is better suited to accomplish equality.
Short-term thymectomized (two months after thymectomy) adult rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) infected with the flagellate Cryptobia salmositica Katz, 1951 responded well during primary infection with C. salmositica and recovered fish also showed secondary response (rapid production of complement fixing antibody after homologous challenge) five months after recovery. Complement fixing antibody was detected during primary and secondary responses and the titres of complement fixing antibody in thymectomized fish were significantly lower than those in infected intact fish. The parasitaemia in thymectomized infected fish was significantly lower than in intact infected fish. Both recovered thymectomized fish and intact fish were protected from cryptobiosis when they were challenged. Similarly, long-term thymectomized fish (nine months after thymectomy) vaccinated with an attenuated strain of C. salmositica were protected from cryptobiosis. There were no significant difference (P > 0.05) in parasitaemia, packed cell volume and complement fixing antibody titres between vaccinated/challenged thymectomized and vaccinated/challenged intact fish. Hence, thymectomy in adult rainbow trout did not decrease the detectable complement fixing antibody against C. salmositica in long-term thymectomized fish but reduced the detectable protective antibody in short-term thymectomized fish.
The paper presents the basic theory of complementary statistics and its application in the area of applied probabilistic modeling. By introduction of the complementarity's principle between x-representation (random time series, random process) and p-representation or k-representation (rate of change/velocity of random time series and processes) the probability theory is completed for the "structural" parameter which carries information about the changes of studied time series or the random process. At the end, the basic application of probabilistic modeling is introduced and the presented principle is illustrated on the set of numerical examples with different probability density functions.
We give sufficient conditions on Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$ so that their projective tensor product $X\otimes _\pi Y$, their injective tensor product $X\otimes _\epsilon Y$, or the dual $(X\otimes _\pi Y)^*$ contain complemented copies of $\ell _p$.