• When humans eat these plant products, they also ingest a variable quantity of oxalate. (medscape.com)
  • However, this ecological connectivity is often represented as external, where humans are the only animals not included, much like 'wilderness' thinking. (australianhumanitiesreview.org)
  • This is also a structuring of hierarchical power relations, with humans assumed to be dominating nature. (australianhumanitiesreview.org)
  • A colony of bees is a super organism-an animal-and like all domesticated animals, honeybees rely on humans for well being and health. (dowgardens.org)
  • These agents cause less environmental damage through accumulation but are often more acutely toxic to humans and other animal species. (cdc.gov)
  • Public health officials and others concerned with appropriate actions to take at hazardous waste sites may want information on levels of exposure associated with more subtle effects in humans or animals (LOAELs) or exposure levels below which no adverse effects (NOAELs) have been observed. (cdc.gov)
  • However, these domestic animals may bring infected rodents into contact with humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Countless species of animals are sources of viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases transmitted to humans. (who.int)
  • Raising awareness among decision- makers and policy-makers on the burden of zoonoses in humans and animals will assist in securing political commitment and financial support for zoonosis control programmes. (who.int)
  • Effective intersectoral collaboration must be underpinned by the development, in each country, of a common multisectoral national plan for prevention of zoonosis in humans and animals. (who.int)
  • Prevalence and genetic analysis of mcr-3 -positive Aeromonas species from humans, retail meat, and environmental water samples. (cdc.gov)
  • Domestic animals infected with Mycobacterium ulcerans-Implications for transmission to humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Collectively, the Earth's plants store approximately 560 petagrams of carbon, with the wood in trees being the largest fraction. (globe.gov)
  • Although moist rainforests cover only about six per cent of the world's area, they contain well over half of the Earth's species of animals and plants. (abs.gov.au)
  • It is a young scientific field that focuses on testing the influences of environmental complexity on gene flow, spatial genetic variation, and local adaptation in plant and animal species. (epfl.ch)
  • Landscape genetics facilitates the understanding of how geographical and environmental features structure genetic variation at both the population and the individual levels. (epfl.ch)
  • The landscape genetics' group at LASIG is specialized in the contribution of Geographic Information Science for the conservation of plant and animal genetic resources. (epfl.ch)
  • Some pesticides are inorganic chemicals, such as sulfur, and others are organic chemicals, such as the alkaloid nicotine derived from plants. (cdc.gov)
  • The prolonged ecologic half-life and lack of species selectivity of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides was recognized in the 1960s. (cdc.gov)
  • Terrestrial ecosystems contain carbon in the form of plants, animals, soils and microorganisms (bacteria and fungi). (globe.gov)
  • Different ant species grow different fungi, but the fungi all belong to the family Lepiotaceae. (britannica.com)
  • Fungi, close up: why plants can't grow without them, the personal account of a toadstool poisoning victim and mushroom-powered packaging. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Oxalate is involved in various metabolic and homeostatic mechanisms in fungi and bacteria and may play an important role in various aspects of animal metabolism, including mitochondrial activity regulation, thyroid function, gluconeogenesis, and glycolysis. (medscape.com)
  • In living plants, flavonoids are produced as pigments, defences against fungi and bacteria, anti-parasitics, and as antioxidants protecting against cellular oxidative stress. (positivehealth.com)
  • With the growing consumer demand for natural preservatives to replace chemical compounds, plant antimicrobial compounds must be thoroughly investigated for their potential to serve as biopreservatives. (hindawi.com)
  • This review paper will focus on the plant-derived products as antimicrobial agents for use in food preservation and to control foodborne pathogens in foods. (hindawi.com)
  • Microorganisms often live in symbiosis with their hosts, and some are considered mutualists, where all species involved benefit from the interaction. (bvsalud.org)
  • In North America, indigenous cultures have used medicinal plants since prehistory and Americans of European origin began using botanicals in the 19th century to counter the toxic medical practices of that time, such as the use of mercury baths to treat syphilis [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Therefore, exposing as much of the foliage within a plant's canopy to air currents through selective pruning and adequate plant spacing will minimize infection periods for plant-disease organisms. (uvi.edu)
  • The compounds that are found in some spices and produced by herbs act as self-defense mechanisms to protect the plant against infectious organisms [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Population structure of invasive Neisseria meningitidis in the United States, 2011-15. (cdc.gov)
  • Therefore, more phylogeographic studies of additional plant species within the warm temperate refugial regions are necessary in order to detect their spatial geographic patterns and to assess the underlying causes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Ecologists use connectivity to describe how animals and plants live in interconnected relationships, across multiple spatial and temporal scales. (australianhumanitiesreview.org)
  • In landscape connectivity, spatial structures and habitat patches provide different species with different opportunities for movement. (australianhumanitiesreview.org)
  • Common to the emergence of all these diseases are changes in animal production practices, climate patterns and demographics and globalization of the food industry. (who.int)
  • The importance of zoonotic diseases has increased at global and regional levels in recent years in connection with human population growth, intensive human and wildlife migration, urbanization, increased international travel and trade of animals and products of animal origin, and intensification of animal production. (who.int)
  • Many of the human diseases that are new, emerging and re-emerging are caused by pathogens which originate in animals or products of animal origin. (who.int)
  • leafcutter ant , (tribe Attini), any of 39 ant species abundant in the American tropics, easily recognized by their foraging columns composed of hundreds or thousands of ants carrying small pieces of leaves. (britannica.com)
  • Nevertheless, through various means including sporadic strong cross-atlantic air currents, new insect species may occasionaly reach the islands. (uvi.edu)
  • Some insect pest species that have become established in the U.S Virgin Islands include the following. (uvi.edu)
  • This module will explain and exemplify how scientists unravel evolutionary patterns - from the biogeography of species to the origin of new phyla. (lu.se)
  • Interestingly, oxalate was first discovered in animals when sheep became ill after eating vegetation later found to have high oxalate content. (medscape.com)
  • Coral reefs occupy less than 1 percent of the ocean floor, but provide habitat for as much as a quarter of the world's sea species. (grist.org)
  • The rules for altering a building or structure (e.g., a barn or bridge) that is habitat for Barn Swallow. (ontario.ca)
  • You need to follow certain rules if you want to repair, maintain, modify, replace or demolish a building or a structure that is the habitat for barn swallow. (ontario.ca)
  • This only applies to the actual structure, not other areas of habitat. (ontario.ca)
  • You must create additional habitat for the bird(s) if the existing structure is destroyed or no longer suitable for the bird(s). (ontario.ca)
  • Structure, modes of action, stability, and resistance to these plant compounds will be discussed as well as their application in food industries and possible technologies by which they can be delivered. (hindawi.com)
  • essential nutritional dietary compounds such as vitamin C, and small plant-derived substances which intercept free radicals and prevent them from causing damage. (positivehealth.com)
  • The full range of antioxidants found in the body include vitamins C and E, carotenes, glutathionine, uric acid, taurine, and plant flavonoids and flavonoid derivatives, and some other compounds. (positivehealth.com)
  • This article considers only the flavonoids, which are small compounds synthesised by plants, but not animals, so must be taken in our diet. (positivehealth.com)
  • They are water soluble compounds based on a unit involving carbon ring structures containing phenols (-OH) groups. (positivehealth.com)
  • Bleached coral in waters off Phuket, Thailand.Photo: AeyseaCross-posted from Cool Green Science As anyone who's ever snorkeled off of a Caribbean island knows, coral reefs are strange, beautiful structures housing a dizzying diversity of sea life. (grist.org)
  • As anyone who's ever snorkeled off of a Caribbean island knows, coral reefs are strange, beautiful structures housing a dizzying diversity of sea life. (grist.org)
  • While knowing an ecosystem's biomass is useful for many applications such as farming, logging, and wildlife management, another helpful unit of measure in an ecosystem is how much carbon is stored in the plants. (globe.gov)
  • Of these, plants and soils are by far the largest reservoirs of stored carbon. (globe.gov)
  • Of the various kinds of tissues produced by plants, woody stems such as those produced by trees have the greatest ability to store large amounts of carbon through continued growth, because wood is dense and trees can be large. (globe.gov)
  • Plants play an important role in the climate system by sequestering, or "fixing" carbon that they take in during the process of photosynthesis and turning it into plant biomass. (globe.gov)
  • The flux of carbon out of this plant pool occurs through the transfer of leaves and other dead plant materials to soils (a process known as litterfall) and through respiration, which releases carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. (globe.gov)
  • The geographical isolation of the Virgin Islands prevents the constant invasion by new pest species. (uvi.edu)
  • The tropical climate of the Virgin Islands provides suitable environmental conditions for year-round activity of many pest species. (uvi.edu)
  • Cost- effective control tools appropriate for use in countries of the Region, such as animal rabies vaccines suitable for arid climates, need to be developed or adapted. (who.int)
  • Leafcutter ants and many other ant species are common in tropical rainforests. (britannica.com)
  • The wonder of rainforests is that they are such complex, interlocking systems that a small overall area hosts probably a minimum of five million, and maybe as many as thirty million, species of our inherited life forms. (abs.gov.au)
  • What, then, is happening to our heritage of a living planet, to the marvellous variety of animals and plants handed down to us, when the key to their survival seems to lie in the very rainforests we are disfurnishing from our world at such a rate? (abs.gov.au)
  • It is already accepted that the recent diminishing of our world stock of rainforests has been a major cause, directly or indirectly, of the extinction of more than 90 species of birds, 36 species of mammals, and an uncounted number of invertebrates in modern history - a situation that the British ecologist Dr Norman Myers considers the greatest spasm of mass extinction since life began. (abs.gov.au)
  • Among the earliest unambiguous encouragements to refuse the consumption of animals is the Tirukkuṟaḷ: A classic text in Tamil language that has been dated from 300 BCE to 500 CE (most seem to agree that it was written around 500 CE). (lu.se)
  • While in China, especially the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) and adjacent regions, considerable research achievements have also been attained on inferring the Quaternary phylogeographic histories of plant species based on the approach of population genetics (e.g. (frontiersin.org)
  • Any excess calcium absorbed by the plant from ground water is extracted from the plant's tissue fluid by the oxalate in the leaves, fruits, nuts, or bark. (medscape.com)
  • Persons visiting laboratories where infected rodents were housed have been infected after only a few minutes of exposure to animal holding areas (12). (cdc.gov)
  • Background Despite the increasing knowledge of plant-pollinator interaction networks, the effects of human-induced disturbances on them have barely been studied. (bioone.org)
  • We analyzed whether land-use changes modified the structure and topology of plant-hummingbird interaction networks or promoted the integration of exotic plant species. (bioone.org)
  • Then, we constructed interaction matrices from these data and compared their assemblage structure. (bioone.org)
  • Scientists and forest managers are concerned about the effect that changes temperature and precipitation will have on forests and their species composition. (globe.gov)
  • This module focuses on how scientists unravel the processes that bring about new species. (lu.se)
  • When the implants were illuminated, the electrical activity of the visual areas of the animals' brains correspondingly altered, indicating that the implant was registering the near-infrared light and correctly stimulating the retinal circuitry. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Occurrence and persistence of carbapenemases genes in hospital and wastewater treatment plants and propagation in the receiving river. (cdc.gov)
  • In the disturbed sites, there were more plant species, mainly exotics, and one additional hummingbird species. (bioone.org)
  • But only a few bold thinkers, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Erasmus Darwin, Charles's grandfather, speculated that species had evolved--that is, that all life shared a common ancestor. (amnh.org)
  • The demonstrated presence of infectious virus in saliva of infected rodents and the marked sensitivity of these animals to hantaviruses following inoculation suggests that biting may be an important mode of transmission among rodents (7). (cdc.gov)
  • The extent of pest related damage in plant culture (food crops as well as ornamentals) is influenced by cultural practices such as fertilization, staking and pruning. (uvi.edu)
  • Plant oils and plant extracts have been utilized for thousands of years, serving many purposes, such as food preservatives and medical therapeutic agents [ 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Food products from animal sources have virtually no oxalate content. (medscape.com)
  • Popular media discourses and heated debates on possible transitions to plant-based food systems can sometimes give the impression that veganism is a newfangled trend or that advocacy for animals is an intrinsically Western or even 'white' social phenomenon. (lu.se)
  • The first recorded ethical concept that can be seen as a forerunner of veganism and the wish for peaceful human-animal relations is the principle of Ahimsa: 'nonviolence' or 'non-harm' towards all living beings. (lu.se)
  • They scavenge free radicals without becoming themselves becoming damaging free radicals or causing other chemical species to become free radicals. (positivehealth.com)
  • Information on urban, plant and animal pests common to the U. S. Virgin Islands and control strategies is available from the UVI Cooperative Extension IPM office. (uvi.edu)
  • Rhus chinensis belongs to the plant family Anacardiaceae and is a common deciduous tree that is endemic to the warm temperate zone of Asia. (frontiersin.org)
  • They collected specimens, carefully studied them and even classified similar species in groups. (amnh.org)
  • The amount of oxalate manufactured depends not only on the particular variety of plant but also on the soil and water conditions in which it grows. (medscape.com)
  • The course is structured around four key problem agendas in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • This is one way that a species' range can migrate. (globe.gov)
  • Human infection may occur when infective saliva or excreta are inhaled as aerosols produced directly from the animal. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, the present warm temperate region probably served as a glacial refugia for plant species in the past time, and this hypothesis has been tested and advanced through phylogeographic studies (e.g. (frontiersin.org)
  • Jumping forward in time to another non-Western context, the atheist Arab philosopher Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (973 - 1057 CE) from Syria advocated veganism out of care for animals in their own right. (lu.se)
  • Alternatively, trees can be grouped with crops, grasses and shrubs to form a single global plant pool. (globe.gov)
  • How do species form? (lu.se)
  • In general, plants that are grown in fields with a high concentration of ground water calcium have higher concentrations of oxalate. (medscape.com)
  • The generalist core in the disturbed network contained half of the core species in the conserved network. (bioone.org)
  • In the United States, one-quarter to one-half of pharmaceuticals are derived from plants, but very few are used as antimicrobials. (hindawi.com)
  • For two years we registered hummingbird-plant interactions monthly in each area. (bioone.org)
  • The total Australian rainforest area might be small in global terms - its two million hectares represents less of an area than is uprooted in the Amazon basin each year alone - but its ratio of species to area is as impressive as that of any other rainforest. (abs.gov.au)
  • To implement such strategies, multisectoral coordination structures with responsibility for zoonosis control should be established at national level. (who.int)
  • The majority of western plant pharmaceutical information was destroyed during the fall of ancient civilizations, but the Renaissance saw a revival in the use of medicinal plants in the western world [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)