"TOWARDS ESTABLISHING ECOLOGY AS A SCIENCE INSTEAD OF AN ART": THE WORK OF JOHN T. CURTIS ON THE PLANT COMMUNITY CONTINUUM

"Towards establishing ecology as a science instead of an art": the work of John T. Curtis on the plant community continuum

Until the 1950s, American plant ecology was dominated by the community-unit theory – that plants grow together in definite communities which constitute the proper subject matter for ecological research.Only H.A.Gleason proposed the alternative "individualistic hypothesis".In the 1950s the nature of the plant community wa

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Research advances in Apert syndrome

Apert syndrome is one of the several genetic syndromes associated with craniosynostosis, a condition that includes premature fusion of one or multiple cranial sutures.There has been significant clinical variation among different sutural synostoses and also within particular suture synostosis.Enormous progress has been made in identifying CD Player

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