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Yes x10000. I have been in lust with him for years!
What time are you actually eating?
I just took a fancy schmancy cooking class and we were instructed to let the bird rest for at least 2/3 the amount of time that it actually was cooked for optimum...
Is it inappropriate to wear a super- sparkly, knee length dress to a formal evening wedding? It's not the length that concerns me, worried about too much sparkle being distracting to others at...
I am AMAZED that you still have power. It feels like we lose it here when we get a hard freeze and a light dusting.
I really enjoyed the descriptions of the neighbors!
He deserves worse than the treatment he is getting. I wish we could send him to jail!!
Wow...I'm even more impressed that many people were able to keep basically in time!
Canadians are so nice.
I've watched too. These people are cray-cray....however, they do make me re-think some of my frivolous spending! And you KNOW none of them are horse people...there's nothing cheap about this sport.
I have forbidden myself from watching Sex In The City because when I do, suddenly i find my perfectly lovely DH to be a giant slacker, which isn't fair to him:)
I do think media makes us think all...
It was in a 45-50 degree car with no direct sunlight. Looked and smelled fine. I fed some of it this morning after doing some more reading - hopefully it will be ok:)
Love it.
Do you heat the pans up before putting batter in? This is crucial.
I bought some ground chicken for my dogs today during my lunch break. I forgot to bring it back to my desk to put in my fridge, so it was unrefrigerated from about 1pm until 6pm tonight, at which...
I can't help, but just wanted to say that you should be proud of your girl for agreeing to talk to someone.
ETA and proud of yourself for offering her the help, and figuring this out!
You've gotten several great texts here. The longer you wait to reply, the worse it will be. Just do it!! (And let us know how it goes;) )
Although if she has already confronted you about the invite when she snooped it, I'm curious about what you said to here right then and there; did you just leave her hanging or something?
This. Unless she is a serious physchopath and is willing to REALLY expose herself as such by calling the company to fact-check, I don't see how she could argue with the above reasoning.
Put on your...
I am a firm believer in being safe rather than sorry.
This! Thank goodness the neighbors are handling this the best way possible. Glad you took her and jingles for continued improvement.
Looked too big to be Judith. Maybe it's just a random zombie kid they found and felt bad for.
Who on earth was Daryl burning on that roof?
Sophie, you're fired.
(Love your haiku but I refuse to believe anyone actually loves winter. Nothing personal.)
I also feel very lucky! I do not love my work, but these things are what I try to focus on when I get bogged down with the negative parts.


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The rain in Llanes fell in the river!
Entry to Llanes was spectacular. After driving 500km in 5 hrs the rain hit. 150mm in 30 mins. The town went under with police directing you away from the city. The last 10km took 1 1/2 hrs. Thank goodness the town drains quickly. The apartmentent is on the top floor with a balcony overlooking the centre of town. People watching beccomes an artform. Parking in the garage is interesting fitting the car with 50mm each side. Have to fold ...
A Bliss of Bends
... a nice meal and bottle of vino tinto (Peter turned his nose up at his half a glass due to it tasting like "vinegar") it was back to the campsite just outside town where the sound of the eternal pumping of an airbed was cutting through the darkness. This guy had been at it since we left the site 4 hours before - that's dedication for you! Fair play. During the night, however, karma stuck as my laughing at the other guy's mattress problems came back to bite me ...
La Vuelta, Potes
Eggs and Spanish baguette (pan), which is not as good as French baguette, for breakfast. Then we cycle into Potes to watch La Vuelta, good support but not as crazy as in England or France. Little writing on the roads and no yellow bikes on display. There is a break away group through first, approx 5 mins ahead of the Pelaton. Blink and you would miss them. they ...
Good lie in then went to a small village called La Vega to do a cycle ride up a mountain. The road is quiet and so beautiful ending up going through 2 short cool tunnels, then a dead end where there is a village called Cucayo. the route was up, up and constantly up for 12km and took me an hour and 10 mins and Adrian an hour. It was a good workout and sweaty. The hotel is lovely and they give us a local dish which I ...
The pass San Glorio and Potes
Lie in, chillax, then a drive up into the mountains. La Vuelta is due through here in 2 days time and we want to see it. Adrian wants to cycle it but this stretch of La Vuelta is 200.8km long! Crazy, mega fit people!! We get a local map and follow a country road that ends up in a small village with a hotel and decide this is the cycle route for tomorrow. We then drive one of the mountain ascents ...

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"I'm Cupid, stupid, and I'm going to kill everyone Arrow doesn't like. That'll make him love me, right? RIGHT?!"
Spinning out of Spider-Verse, Jessica Drew is on a mission with some other Spider-Folk. Even if you've been reading the other Spider-Verse titles, there will be some confusion.
Tony Stark's been conspicuously MIA since the title jumped forward. Time to see what he's been up to!
Should have included She-Hulks and Daredevil's legal 'battle'. ;)
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Small businesses in the United States are not as concerned about current business conditions and are a little more optimistic about the coming year, according to the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index. The index was up 20 points in early January 2013. The report concluded that, in the current economic environment, capital spending and hiring are likely to show continued modest growth.
The big increase came on the heels of a 28-point decrease in the fourth quarter of 2012 - the biggest quarterly decrease since 4Q 2008. The Wells Fargo report said that the recent rise suggests that worries about the looming fiscal cliff were probably "a little overdone" in late 2012. Wells Fargo noted then the 4Q decrease was in expectations, while current conditions were improving.
The 1Q 2013 report shows current business conditions and expectations both improving. The present situation series was up 8 points to -2; future expectations were up 12 points to +11.
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SYDNEY, 20 November - On the heels of big wins to cap off their respective Round Three series, Brisbane Bandits pitcher Chris Smith and Jet Couriers Melbourne Aces outfielder Carlo Testa have been named the winners of the ABL's Delta Air Lines Pitcher and Player of the Week awards respectively for the period of 16-18 November.
Smith's dominant performance on the mound in what ended up as Saturday's finale of a rain-shortened two-game series between Brisbane and the visiting Canberra Cavalry enabled the Kentucky-born right-hander to edge Perth's Virgil Vasquez for this round's weekly accolade. After Brisbane dropped Friday night's opener, Smith put the Bandits on his back to even the series. Across seven innings on Saturday, Smith whiffed 12 Cavalry batters and didn't allow a run on three hits. Since that evening's contest was scheduled for seven innings as the first game of a doubleheader, Smith's seven frames accounted for a complete-game victory before storms washed away the nightcap.
Vasquez was dominant, as well, in his Round Three performance, pitching a complete-game, nine-inning victory over Melbourne on Friday in Perth. The Heat right-hander struck out nine and allowed just three hits but hit a batter and walked three to give Smith the edge.
On the position player side, Kansas City Royals import Testa piloted the Aces' offence as Melbourne became the first team to down the reigning league champions Heat with a Sunday finale win. Melbourne's outfielder went 5-for-11 over the course of three Round Three contests with a double, a home run, two walks, two runs scored, five runs batted in, and even a stolen base.
After dropping their first two contests at Barbagallo Ballpark in a rematch of last season's ABL Championship Series, the Aces ended the Heat's unbeaten start to the season with a 12-2 victory Sunday evening. Through the season's first six games, Testa ranks 12th in the league in batting average at .318.
For the first time in 2012/13, all six ABL teams are in action this weekend in Round Four. Smith and the Bandits travel to Adelaide to take on the Bite while Testa's Aces hit the road to the nation's capital to take on the Cavalry. In Sydney, the Heat will clash with the Blue Sox.
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Lance Armstrong has been BANNED from competing in triathlons … effective immediately … over new allegations that he participated in a massive doping conspiracy.
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has smacked Armstrong with formal charges … claiming Lance and 5 of his cycling associates conspired to use and distribute illegal substances from 1998 until 2011.
The USADA claims Armstrong has been using EPO, blood transfusions, testosterone, corticosteroids and masking agents.
The USADA also claims it collected blood samples from Armstrong in 2009 and 2010 that were "fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions."
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1.There is a rising interest in the role of species diversity in ecosystem functioning and services, including productivity. Yet, how the diversity-productivity relationship depends on species identity and abiotic conditions remains a challenging issue.
2.We analysed mixture effects on species productivity along site productivity gradients, calculated from a set of abiotic factors, in two biogeographic contexts (highlands and lowlands). We compared the productivity of five two-species mixtures (i.e. 10 cases of mixed species) with that of monocultures of the same species. Five main European tree species were considered: sessile oak (Quercus petraea Liebl.), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H.Karst.).
3.Our dataset was compiled from the 2006-2010 French National Forest Inventory database and covers 2,361 plots including pure and mixed stands.
4.Overall productivity of mixtures in highlands, i.e. European beech - Norway spruce, European beech - silver fir and to a lesser extent, silver fir - Norway spruce was found to be higher than expected from the productivity of corresponding monospecific stands. Over-yielding was mainly due to European beech for the first two mixtures and to silver fir for the third one.
5.No effect of mixture was found for sessile oak - Scots pine and sessile oak - European beech stands in lowlands. Over-yielding of sessile oak mixed with Scots pine was not strong enough to significantly increase overall stand productivity. Over-yielding of European beech was balanced by an under-yielding of sessile oak.
6.The mixture effect changed along site productivity gradients for 6 cases out of the 10 studied, with a stronger and positive effect on sites with low productivity. The magnitude of this change along site productivity gradients varied up to 89% depending on the tree species.
7.Synthesis. The nature of species interaction in mixtures with regards to productivity, changes with species assemblage and abiotic conditions. Over-yielding is strongest when species grow in highlands on less productive sites. A negative link between mixture effect and site productivity was found, in line with the stress-gradient hypothesis.
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1.There is a fundamental trade-off between leaf traits associated with either resource acquisition or resource conservation. This gradient of trait variation, called the economics spectrum also applies to fine roots but whether it is consistent for coarse roots or at the plant community level remains untested.
2.We measured a set of morphological and chemical root traits at a community level (functional parameters; FP) in 20 plant communities located along land-use intensity gradients and across 3 climatic zones (Tropical, Mediterranean and Montane). We hypothesized (i) the existence of a root economics spectrum in plant communities consistent within root types (fine, < 2 mm; coarse, 2-5 mm) but that ii) variations in root traits occur with soil depths (top 20 cm of soil and 100-150 cm deep) and iii) along land use gradients thus leading to variation in root FP.
3.Root FP co-varied, in line with the resource acquisition-conservation trade-off, from communities with root FP syndromes associated to resource acquisition (e.g. high specific root length, SRL; thin diameters and low root dry matter contents, RDMC) to root FP syndromes associated with resource conservation (e.g. low SRL, thick diameters and high RDMC). This pattern was consistent for both fine and coarse roots indicating a strong consistency of a trade-off between resource acquisition and conservation for plant roots.
4. Roots had different suites of traits at different depths, suggesting a disparity in root function and exploitation capacities. Shallow, fine roots were thinner, richer in nitrogen and with lower lignin concentrations associated to greater exploitation capacities compared to deep, fine roots. However, shallow coarse roots were richer in nitrogen, carbon and soluble concentrations than deep, coarse roots.
5.Fine root parameters of highly disturbed, herbaceous dominated plant communities in poorer soils were associated to foraging strategies, i.e. greater SRL and lower lignin and RDMC than those from less disturbed communities. Coarse roots however, were less sensitive to the land use gradient.
6.Synthesis This study demonstrates the existence of a general trade-off in root construction at a community level, which operates within all root types suggesting that all plant tissues are controlled by the trade-off between resource acquisition and conservation.
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1. Episodic mass flowering and subsequent die-off of bamboo understories may generate rare opportunities for tree regeneration by altering consumer-seedling interactions as much as by increasing light availability to seedlings. We hypothesized that bamboo dieback interacts with canopy neighbourhood composition in creating recruitment microsites for tree seedling species with varied shade tolerance and susceptibility to herbivory.
2. We conducted a 2-year experiment in a Patagonian mixed forest altered by extensive, but patchy dieback of the bamboo Chusquea culeou. Newly emerged seedlings of Nothofagus alpina (more shade-tolerant) and N. dombeyi (less shade-tolerant) were planted in conspecific and heterospecific canopy neighbourhoods, with either a flowered (dead) or nonflowered (live) bamboo understorey. Seedlings were placed inside and outside mesh cages to assess mortality from vertebrate or invertebrate consumers.
3. Vertebrate exclusion increased seedling survival regardless of bamboo condition. Seedling loss to invertebrates decreased with bamboo die-off, resulting in higher survival of N. alpina in dead than in live patches. In contrast, bamboo die-off increased N. dombeyi mortality by wilting, which counteracted the benefits of seedling release from consumers. Bamboo die-off increased light availability and enhanced seedling growth for both species.
4. N. alpina seedlings were less damaged or killed by invertebrates under heterospecific canopies than under conspecifics (associational resistance), whereas N. dombeyi performance was unaffected by neighbourhood composition. Bamboo die-off did not change seedling performance patterns observed across canopy neighbourhoods with live bamboo understories.
5. Synthesis. Gaps created by bamboo die-off can exert both positive and negative, species-specific effects on the likelihood of tree seedling establishment. We conclude that infrequent understorey disturbances coupled with canopy neighbourhood effects mediated by seedling herbivores may drive gap-phase succession within old-growth forests.
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Phenotypic plasticity and broad ecological tolerance are hypothesized as important traits in the range expansion of asexual species, because individual asexual lineages have to face spatial and temporal environmental variation with limited opportunity for genetic adaptation. The hypothesis that asexual lineages are general-purpose genotypes (GPG) has been previously tested, with mixed results, in species that have both sexual and asexual variants. Such comparisons can be confounded with intra-specific ploidy level differences that are often observed between the two reproductive types.
Avoiding the confounding effects of ploidy differences, we test whether northward range expansion selects for a GPG strategy in asexual lineages of the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), a species that shows geographic parthenogenesis. We compared the biomass of asexual lineages that were collected along a geographic transect from close to the asexuals' area of origin (central Europe, where asexuals descend from sexual ancestors in mixed populations) towards their northern distribution edge (Northern Europe, where only asexual lineages occur) in three different experimental environments: optimal, drought and shaded conditions.
The geometric mean performance across test environments did not differ significantly between plants from different regions along the transect. However, southern lineages typically showed larger differences in biomass between different test environments, mainly caused by a relatively high performance in the optimal environment. Northern and mid-latitude lineages showed more even performance across the different environments.
Synthesis. Our results suggest that phenotypic plasticity is important in the asexual range expansion of Taraxacum officinale and that range shifting in this species is accompanied by a change in phenotypic plasticity strategy from lineages with high ability to increase biomass in optimal growing conditions (master-of-some strategy) to lineages that maintain more constant performance in different environments (GPG or jack-of-all-trades strategy) from core to range edge.
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Browsing by overabundant white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) has altered ecological relationships in forest communities across eastern North America. Recent but limited work suggests that deer browsing also selects for particular plant defensive traits.
We hypothesized that browsing by deer has imposed selection on defensive traits in an annual native wildflower, orange jewelweed (Impatiens capensis).
To test this hypothesis, we collected individuals from 26 natural populations across a 5000 km2 area in New York State, USA. Half of these populations were historically protected from deer and half were exposed to heavy browsing. We planted individuals in common gardens subjected to natural deer browsing or no browsing.
Individuals from historically browsed populations exhibited significantly higher tolerance than those from historically protected populations. Herbivory by deer reduced lifetime fruit production by only 20% in historically browsed populations, as opposed to 57% in historically protected populations. Two mechanisms were correlated with this increased tolerance: increased number of flowering days and increased fruits per flowering node.
Synthesis The increased tolerance of historically browsed populations suggests that these populations evolved increased tolerance or that historically protected populations lost tolerance over time. Variation in tolerance traits in native plant species may allow them to persist in the face of rapid ecological change.
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1.The strength of many interactions between plants and other organisms changes across regional gradients. For example, the relevance of plant-herbivore interactions increases with primary production. Likewise, biotic interactions collectively become more intense from the poles to the equator. Yet, the regional variation of the interaction between grasses and systemic fungal endophytes, which provide resistance to biotic and abiotic environmental factors (i.e. herbivory and drought), is poorly understood.
2.We compiled 1008 records of the incidence level of fungal endophytes (Epichloë, Ascomycetes: Clavicipitaceae) on wild populations of 48 cool season grasses, encompassing 10 biomes across a broad latitudinal expanse and primary production gradient. Symbiosis incidence was analysed as a function of mean primary production, precipitation, temperature, and latitude of each site, which in turn were obtained from climatic and satellital sources.
3.Across a 30-fold variation of mean primary production, average symbiosis incidence increased from 20% to 70%. The pattern became stronger when the analysis was restricted to the single grass genus Festuca, which accounted for half of the total data.
4.The number of grass populations showing no symbiosis incidence (0%) decreased as primary production increased, whereas those with 100% of incidence increased.
5.Primary production at the regional scale was negatively correlated with latitude but positively with mean annual temperature and precipitation. Symbiosis incidence was similarly correlated with latitude and temperature, and it was not with mean annual precipitation.
6.Synthesis: Different descriptors of this grass-fungus symbiosis show that average incidence in wild populations worldwide increases with mean primary production. As at large spatial scales herbivory and temperature increase and aridity decreases with primary production, our results suggest that, at broad-scales, these biotic and abiotic factors may be important drivers of the symbiosis success.
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1.Historically, mutualisms have been considered to be less important than antagonisms in affecting the composition of ecological communities. In plant communities, beneficial microbes may feature as keystone mutualists in structuring community composition. Understanding the direction and magnitude of mutualist effects at the community scale may be critical for making accurate predictions on plant responses to climate change, particularly for mutualists that ameliorate climate-induced stressors. Such mitigation could shift outcomes between mutualist-enhanced species diversity and mutualist-reduced diversity, depending on whether a mutualist accelerates habitat modification or competitive exclusion by its partner species.
2.Here, we tested the relative importance and interactive effects of altered precipitation and symbiosis between an epichloid fungal endophyte and a dominant grass species for dune plant communities along the Great Lakes, USA. In 2010, we imposed field manipulations of endophyte presence in the foundation dune grass Ammophila breviligulata in combination with rain-out shelters and rainfall additions. We monitored natural rates of colonization by new plant individuals over three years.
3.Under the current precipitation regime, endophyte symbiosis in A. breviligulata reduced colonizing plant diversity, species richness, and evenness. This effect depended on the amount of precipitation, with the symbiosis having weaker effects on plant diversity under both augmented and reduced rainfall treatments.
4.Despite the overall negative effect of endophyte symbiosis on plant diversity, plant responses to the endophyte were species-specific. A federally threatened forb, Cirsium pitcheri, increased in abundance when the symbiosis was present, regardless of precipitation regime. Endophyte symbiosis in A. breviligulata caused minor reductions in the abundance of other grass species; however, augmented precipitation benefited other grasses.
5.Synthesis. We show that microbial mutualisms can have strong effects on community structure in a native ecosystem and that the amount of precipitation has the potential to alter how these keystone species interactions affect community composition. Predictions on future plant community structure, for both restored and native dunes, can be improved by accounting for the presence of fungal symbionts in the foundation plant species.
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1. When exotic herbivores invade new environments, they have the potential to interfere with native predator-prey relationships. This interference can be indirect, via changes induced in native host plants, and may have cascading consequences at the community level. Here we investigate the impact of the presence of an exotic generalist insect herbivore, the African cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis, on the outcome of native tritrophic interactions between the plant Brassica rapa, the herbivore Pieris brassicae, and its parasitoid Cotesia glomerata.
2. In olfactometer choice-tests, plants damaged by S. littoralis and plants damaged by both S. littoralis and P. brassicae were consistently less attractive to the parasitoid than plants damaged by P. brassicae alone. Chemical analyses revealed that B. rapa volatiles typically induced by S. littoralis dominated the headspace in case of dual herbivore infestation.
3. In behavioral observations in petri dishes, C. glomerata wasps mistakenly attacked S. littoralis larvae significantly more often when P. brassicae was present, and attacks on both herbivores were comparable in terms of time (attack duration) and energy investment (number of eggs injected). Successful parasitism of S. littoralis was never observed, but larvae exposed to C. glomerata for 24 hours exhibited reduced survivorship, possibly as a result of failed parasitism attempts.
4. In tents with herbivore-infested B. rapa plants, the presence of S. littoralis did not have an effect on the parasitism rates of P. brassicae by C. glomerata, regardless of whether the two species were on the same or on different plants. Field experiments in newly invaded environments are necessary to evaluate the realized impact of S. littoralis.
5. Synthesis. Our study illustrates that exotic herbivores can impact native tritrophic interactions associated with Brassica rapa, even if they cannot be used as prey by native natural enemies. The mechanisms behind such effects, in particular chemical interference with foraging cues via changes in herbivore-induced plant volatiles, have the potential to be quite general, and their long-term effects on native communities should not be underestimated.
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Mountain ecosystems can exert different selection pressures on plant populations over small scales due to steep environmental gradients.
Gene-flow between lower and higher elevation plant populations could lead to the increased integration of potentially adaptive genes and thereby to outbreeding vigour under current rapid climatic changes. Alternatively, gene-flow across elevation could disrupt gene complexes leading to outbreeding depression.
We explored the responses of higher (1800m a.s.l.) and lower (1200m a.s.l.) Ranunculus bulbosus L. populations to intra- and inter-elevational and short- as well as long-distance gene flow by means of controlled crosses and assessment of the offspring's germination, growth and fitness.
Outbreeding differed between elevations of origin: higher populations were negatively affected by pollen-flow from lower populations at the earliest life stages, but tended to be positively affected in terms of growth later on while gene flow across small vs. large distances had no impact on growth traits. Lower populations were not significantly affected by the elevational origin of pollen per se.
However, fitness of offspring of populations from both higher and lower elevations were jointly affected by elevational and regional origins of pollen, in which case the gene flow distance had a comparatively stronger positive impact on fitness (outbreeding vigour) than elevational origin.
Synthesis: Our results indicate that compared to gene-flow at regional scales, gene flow across elevational gradients has a minor effect on Ranunculus bulbosus. The lack of outbreeding depression suggests that potentially adaptive genes might well be integrated across populations resulting in an increased resilience of Ranunculus bulbosus and potentially similar montane plant species in changing climatic conditions.
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Deer and earthworm presence/absence indirectly influenced other trophic levels: earthworm presence increased the likelihood of insect attack, and deer exclusion increased the likelihood of rodent disturbance of transplants.
Invasive earthworms negatively affected seedling survival of many understorey plants, including species previously thought to benefit from earthworm associations. This effect was a function of earthworm biomass, a surrogate for earthworm activity. We expect deer herbivory to increase in importance, including indirect effects, as seedlings grow into browse height over the next years. Investigations of co-occurring stressors can result in 'ecological surprises' including previously overlooked non-consumptive effects or effects on other trophic levels.
We conclude that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are involved in the resistance of bean to fungal pathogens. They can contribute to the direct resistance in the emitter itself, and resistance phenotypes of neighbouring receiver plants can result from induced as well as associational resistance. Plant VOCs play multiple roles in the resistance of plants to microbial pathogens.
A rainfall gradient across the Isthmus of Panama correlates with changes in tree species composition. We observed an elevated risk of pathogen-caused damage and mortality for seedlings in the wetter forests and a greater impact to host fitness from pathogen attack for seedlings of tree species common in the drier forests. These results suggest that pathogens contribute to the exclusion of dry-forest tree species from the wetter forests and highlight a potentially widespread mechanism by which pathogens may enhance regional forest diversity. Photo caption: A healthy, Castilla elastica seedling (left of center) and a C. elastica seedling succumbing to pathogen-caused mortality (right of center) in Parque Natural Metropolitano, Panama. Photo credit: E.R.S.
Synthesis: Large collections of data sets allow broad questions to be addressed at the global scale, for example, in genetics (genbank), functional plant ecology (try, bien, d3) and grassland community ecology (nutnet). Here, we present compadre, a similarly data-rich and ecologically relevant resource for plant demography. Open access to this information, its frequent updates and its integration with other online resources will allow researchers to address timely and important ecological and evolutionary questions.
Overall, our data show that multiple rhizobia interacting with a single host species creates opportunities for emergent or higher-order effects that extend beyond those that could be simply predicted based upon outcomes of pairwise interactions and that increased mutualist diversity does not necessarily translate into positive effects on plant growth.
In contrast to the common assumption that resource availability limits annual seed production capacity by individual plants (left), this study demonstrates that iteroparous angiosperms can invest in seed production in response to the demand of developing embryos (right). Such flexibility eliminates the possibility of resource limitation and seed size-number trade-offs and promotes sexual differences in reproductive investment.
In a review of the literature on hydrological niches, we find that plants segregate on soil-moisture gradients and/or partition water resources spatially or temporally in a wide range of environments from arid to wet. We propose that this niche segregation arises from three trade-offs imposed by edaphic, structural and biophysical constraints.
Given the phylogenetic signal in plant colonization capacity, a multitude of conserved species characteristics may explain community assembly in forests. Earlier trait-based syntheses strongly emphasised dispersal, but the factors limiting establishment and persistence of forest herbs in post-agricultural forests may be more nuanced than generally appreciated.
Identifying the best actions to avoid or take advantage of grass-woodland transitions requires a mechanistic understanding of both the drivers of these shifts and their ecological consequences. The collection of reviews, empirical and modelling studies included in this Special Feature contributes to forecasting how ongoing global change will affect grass-woodland transitions and their consequences for the provisioning of ecosystem services from drylands, which account for a large fraction of Earth's surface.
Our work explores dimensions of the impact of climate change on biomes that have received little attention so far. Our results indicate that climate change will not only affect the extent of savanna, forest and treeless areas in the tropical and subtropical Americas, but also will: (i) promote a significant geographical shift and an increase of the extent of transition areas between biomes and (ii) decrease the stability of the equilibrium between forest, savanna and treeless areas, yielding a more unpredictable system.
Mesic grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands constitute self-reinforcing states (alternative attractors) separated by critical fire frequency thresholds. Even without major shifts in climate, altered fire frequency can produce dramatic state-changes, highlighting the importance of fire for predicting future ecosystem states. Local management should focus on prevention of unwanted transitions rather than post-hoc restoration.
Our results point out that the emergence of a spatial phase transition associated to percolation is a robust result of neutral metacommunity dynamics with a critical threshold of space occupancy close to pc ~ 0.6, which supports our hypothesis that the empirically observed 40% tree cover (60% grass cover) is associated to a percolation threshold for C4 grasses, that in turn imply the existence of a spatially connected or spanning cluster of grass cover over which fire can spread.
Shifts from herbaceous to woody plant dominance have occurred world-wide in drylands. The ecological ramifications of this change in plant life-form composition and its effects on sheep and cattle production have been widely investigated. Management practices aimed at reducing shrubs to conserve grassland ecosystems and maintain livestock production are widespread, but relatively little is known of the ecological consequences of such practices. This paper reviews our state of knowledge and highlights avenues for future research (photo credit: Kirk Davies).
This study provides a novel, regional-scale assessment of how plant functional type transitions may impact ecosystem water balance in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems of North America. Results illustrate that the ecohydrological consequences of changing vegetation depend strongly on climate and suggest that decreasing woody plant abundance may have only limited impact on evapotranspiration and water yield.
We used 311 sites across a broad natural gradient in Patagonian rangelands to evaluate the relative importance of climate (temperature, precipitation) and vegetation structure (grass and shrub cover, species richness) as drivers of above-ground net primary productivity, precipitation-use efficiency and precipitation marginal response. We found that vegetation structure is as important as climate in shaping ecosystem functioning. Maintaining and enhancing vegetation cover and species richness, particularly of grasses, could reduce the adverse effects of climate change on ecosystem functioning.
Fire history in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests reveals complacency and sensitivity to changing vegetation and hydroclimate over the past 6000 years. Results suggest that climate change may impact fire severity more so than fire frequency in these systems, through direct and indirect impacts on vegetation, fuels, and fuel moisture.
By virtue of their interactions, it appears that exotic plants may provide a key service to a community's specialist pollinators as well as fill otherwise vacant 'coevolutionary niches'.
These results provide evidence that introduction of a plant species into a novel environment commonly results in a reduction in the top-down constraint imposed by herbivores on growth, allowing plants to shift towards a faster growth strategy which may result in an increase in population size and spread and consequently to invasive success.
Synthesis. Positive interactions and stress amelioration play an important and previously unrecognised role in determining the recruitment success and viability of seaweeds in subtidal marine ecosystems. These results challenge long held paradigms about the general importance of canopy competition and force a rethink of how seaweed interactions affect habitat resilience to disturbances in subtidal ecosystems.
The index of interaction importance (Iimp) has been considered until now to symmetrically range in the interval (−1, 1). Here, it is demonstrated that its maximum positive value is 0.5. As major issues regarding importance metrics are documented in literature, it is recommended that current approaches to measuring interaction importance be revised in depth.
Water-impermeable seed coats are commonly considered a dormancy trait. However, rodent seed predators are often important seed dispersers and have the potential to exert strong selective pressures on seeds to evolve methods of avoiding detection. Hard seeds seem to do just that, and this work suggests that optimal seed survival in many environments with rodent seed predators is obtained by plants having a dimorphic soft and hard seed strategy.
Our understanding of the underlying drivers of context-dependent plant–animal interactions is currently not well developed. Progress in this area is essential to better predict when and where species interactions will alter the responses of plant populations to environmental changes as well as to develop more robust theory. Experiments aimed at explicitly exploring the role of abiotic factors in mediating the population-level impact of pollen limitation and herbivory could determine the extent to which variation in the abiotic environment predictably shifts the outcome of these interactions.
Our results indicate that drought stress influences not only inbreeding depression (ID), but also heterosis. These findings shed new light on the combined effects of anthropogenic environmental change and the genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation on plants and their interactions with other organisms. Conservation programmes aiming to restore genetically degraded populations with the translocation of individuals between populations should consider environmental stress as a risk factor.
This study shows that large herbivores might form grazing lawns through previously underestimated effects on water balance. Thus, future studies on large herbivore effects on vegetation should increasingly focus on additional pathways of soil compaction and defoliation. While nutrient-based processes driving grazing lawn formation may operate during the wet season in savannas, we suggest that water balance-based processes are additionally important during the dry season.
Range-shifting tropical rabbitfish (siganids) can severely reduce the biomass and biodiversity of temperate reefs at a scale of hundreds of kilometres. A shift from macroalgal dominance to barrens is mediated by the addition of functionally diverse herbivores that characterise tropical reefs. This work highlights the importance of assessing the functional traits of range-shifting species to determine potential mechanisms of impact on ecological communities.
We show a drastic ecological response (defoliation) to two concurrent extreme events – a marine heatwave and flood - in a foundation seagrass species near its biogeographical range limit at the Shark Bay World Heritage Site. Where climatic events overlap, ecological responses are likely to be more extreme, particularly in ecosystems where foundation species exist near low latitude range limits.
Temperature and the length of the growing season are regarded as major determinants of tree growth in temperate climate. We asked which of the two factors does have a larger impact in deciduous tree species near the upper elevational range limit. We demonstrate that temperature has a strong effect on wood formation, while the length of the growing season is negligible for radial stem growth at high elevation.
Our results indicate that altering the seasonality of precipitation can have large direct effects on plant community composition and phenology, as well as significant indirect effects, mediated through exotic species, on plant-available resources and plant interactions.
Photointerpretation of aerial images shows that the influence of dispersal limitation versus factors mediating competitive responses changes throughout colonization stages. Whereas dispersal limitation is the main factor influencing colonization at early stages, competition for local resources controls population growth at later stages. Therefore, long-term studies are required to capture the overall combined influence of key ecological factors in shaping long-term spatial demographic trends.
We quantified the effects of more frequent fire and lower rainfall - projected to occur under a warming and drying climate - on population responses of shrub species in biodiverse Mediterranean- type shrublands. A 20% reduction in post-fire winter rainfall (essential for seedling recruitment) is predicted to increase the minimum inter-fire interval required for self-replacement by 50%, placing both fire-killed and resprouting species at risk of decline. Heightened wildfire suppression and lengthened intervals for prescribed fire may best support the in situ persistence of perennial plant species. This contrasts with the view that more managed fire may be needed to mitigate wildfire risk as climate warms.
Our study demonstrates a peculiar stepwise advance of a tree line in northern Fennoscandia. A positive relationship between individual tree growth and temperature was not reflected at the population level, and factors deemed important in earlier studies could not explain the advance. These findings suggest complex tree line dynamics, in which biotic agents may mediate tree line responses to environmental change.
Our results indicate that climate change will have negative direct and indirect (i.e. through changes in biocrust and microbial communities) impacts on the resistance of the N cycle in dryland soils. While biocrusts can play an important role slowing down the impacts of climate change on the N cycle due to their positive and continued effects on the resistance of multiple variables from the N cycle, such change will progressively alter N cycling in biocrust-dominated ecosystems, enhancing both N availability and inorganic N dominance.
Our results demonstrate that δ13CSOM values can provide spatially explicit estimates of leaf area index (LAI) and could therefore serve as a surrogate for productivity and water use. While δ13CSOM has traditionally been used to reconstruct the relative abundance of C3 versus C4 species, the results of this study demonstrate that within stable C3- or C4-dominated biomes, δ13CSOM can provide additional insights. The fact that LAI is strongly correlated to δ13CSOM may allow for a more nuanced interpretation of ecosystem properties of palaeoecosystems based on palaeosol 13C values.
Photo from a helicopter of a typical area of the taiga zone in Eastern Canada showing a mosaic of spruce-lichen woodlands of various postfire ages, along with numerous lakes and peatlands.
We evaluate the relation of diversity and productivity and related hypotheses by assessing species richness of ferns at two spatial scales (local, regional) and two levels of productivity (ecosystem, ferns). Only fern, but not ecosystem productivity, shows relations to fern diversity, positive at regional, but negative at local scales. This indicates a strong influence of competition on diversity at local scales.
Our results show that richness increases to an asymptote after a critical threshold in disturbance severity initially. Decreases in species richness over time associated with increases in productivity may eventually result in the unimodal relationship predicted by the intermediate disturbance hypothesis. However, species composition continues to differ with canopy gap size, suggesting a range of canopy gap sizes is required to maintain the greatest diversity of plant species over broader spatial and temporal scales.
We found that a decade of N and P additions interacted to drive changes in plant community composition, which had large effects on ecosystem productivity but minimal effects on plant community diversity. The shift in species composition increased variability in ANPP as the new species composition responded more strongly to biennial burning compared with controls. Thus, increased inputs of N and P to terrestrial ecosystems have the potential to alter stability of ecosystem function over time, particularly within the context of natural disturbance regimes.
Our long-term experiment reveals that environmental perturbation, grazing and soil wetness exhibit joint effects that induce divergent trajectories of tundra plant communities. We suggest that a strong environmental perturbation triggers mountain tundra heath community to move away from its equilibrium state. The outcome of this shift depends on the interplay between grazing pressure and soil wetness that drive tundra plant communities toward divergent alternative states.
For the first time, we experimentally demonstrated that for two common forestry tree species, foliar fungal pathogen richness and infestation depend on local biodiversity. Thus, local tree diversity can have positive impacts on ecosystem functioning in managed forests by decreasing the level of fungal pathogen infestation.
Our results demonstrated that shoot competition affects the observed pattern of reproductive allometry among individuals in the field, and this has implications for the fitness of competing plants. The steeper log R–log V slope of populations competing above ground may intensify the role of directional selection under light competition, making the effects of shoot competition more important than those of root competition for the evolution of weeds in fertile environments.


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Debuting on April 18, Grey Gardens reinterprets the raw slice-of-life captured so gracefully by the Maysles brothers, the documentarians behind Gimme Shelter. Like the documentary, the movie follows the funny, sad, bizarre, and baffling daily lives of "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, aunt and first cousin to Jackie Onassis.
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Mathoura Bowling Club's Millewa two-bowl triples tournament on the weekend, saw 20 teams entered.
On Saturday, bowlers played three games of 16 ends and at the end of play four teams had won three games.
Many teams had two games, so there were many teams in contention.
Sunday was a crisp and frosty morning, but all teams were early and play started on time.
After the two games were completed, one team had won five games, with one team having four wins and a draw.
A play-off was needed to determine third, with four four-game winners.
The Mooroopna team of Brad Orr, Glen Thatcher and Jeff Anselmi were the winners, head of the Lalor team of Andrew Van der Horst, Ian Berry and Donny Passes. Third was the Bacchus Marsh team.
Winners of the highest margin prizes on the last four games were N Stephenson +18, N Dunbar +15, S Lucas +28 and T Toohey +6.
The club's final winter tournament is the red gum two-bowl classic triples on August 16 and 17.
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Quicklook"Happy Halloween" BannerReg $24.00 Now $7.00Designer-inspired wall banner that reads, "Happy Halloween". Attach to any mantel or wall, then get crafty by adding in some of your favorite scare tactics. Crafted from reusable paper and fabric. Our designer "Happy Halloween" Banner really makes a statement. Sometimes, you just have to spell it out and, no bones about it, this grand Halloween greeting really does the trick. Artfully created in 4"H black-and-white letters, with glittery details, and it outshines anything less ...
Halloween Fog JuiceReg $24.00 Now $12.00
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Battery Operated Red Glitter Candles$14.00
QuicklookBattery Operated Red Glitter Candles$14.00Crafted from real white wax, cloaked in generous amounts of glitter for an added touch of ghoulish glamour. Since our candles are battery operated, they provide all the eerie ambience you would expect, without the worry of an open flame. Candles require two AA batteries each (not included). Enlighten your lair with the frightful flicker from our Battery-operated Red Glitter Candles, and cause a Halloween scene that really sparkles. . . .
Crawling Stone HandReg $19.00 Now $5.00
QuicklookCrawling Stone HandReg $19.00 Now $5.00Animated stone hand that crawls. Skillful painting makes it appear as if the hand is actual stone. Features an easy on/off switch. Made from durable PVC. Runs on three AA batteries (included). When you want to send hearts racing, this Halloween, reach for our Crawling Stone Hand. And be sure to get more than one, because you'll never be able to get enough of the startled reactions from trick-or-treaters as they see what appears to ...
Sharp Dressed Skeleton Animated FigureReg $199.00 Now $84.00
QuicklookSharp Dressed Skeleton Animated FigureReg $199.00 Now $84.00Life-size, animated skeleton Halloween figure that plays guitar and sings "Sharp Dressed Man". Discreet sound activation prompts figure to begin singing and strumming his guitar. Dressed to kill in camouflage pants and a camouflage cap, tuxedo shirt and jacket, dark sunglasses, and unsettlingly long beard. For covered outdoor or indoor use. Plugs into any standard outlet. Trick-or-treaters will come running just as fast as they can to hear the Animated Sharp Dressed Skeleton's soul-stirring ...
Harlequin Battery Operated Candles$18.00
QuicklookHarlequin Battery Operated Candles$18.00A single, optional remote will control an entire room full of candles (sold separately). Crafted from real white wax, wrapped in harlequin-print vellum, our candles provide all the atmosphere you would expect, without the worry of an open flame. LED turns on and off, manually, or use the automatic 4-, 6-, or 8-hour timer function. Up to a 500-hour battery life. Requires four AA batteries each (not included). Our Battery-operated Harlequin Candles are perfect for ...
Set of Four Framed Lab Specimens$29.00
QuicklookSet of Four Framed Lab Specimens$29.00Realistic lab specimens, framed for hanging. Resin construction and gloss finishes throughout. Specimens arrive ready to hang horizontally or at an angle for an extra spooky look. Trick-or-treaters will go mad for our Framed Lab Specimens. So unsettlingly realistic, when you close your eyes, you can almost picture them on the wall of an evil scientist's dreary dungeon laboratory. White, detailed specimens are mounted on black felt, then labeled and framed. So frighteningly affordable, you ...
Bone Jet Animated FigureReg $79.00 Now $49.00
QuicklookBone Jet Animated FigureReg $79.00 Now $49.00She strums her guitar as her eyes flash and she sings, "I love Rock and Roll!". Decked out in full rocker garb, including a pleather jacket with zipper detail, denim mini skirt, hoop earrings, and a skull and crossbones necklace. There's no need to put another dime in the jukebox &ndsah; she's motion activated. You've gotta love that spiked rocker hair!. Requires 3 AA batteries (not included). Our animated, singing, Bone Jet skeleton figure strikes ...
Life-like Scary PeeperReg $59.00 Now $49.00
QuicklookLife-like Scary PeeperReg $59.00 Now $49.00Eerily real in size and features, with lifelike, sparkling eyes, heâs the stuff nightmares are made of. Shockingly realistic face with cupped hands "dressed" in a classic hoodie. Eerily real in size and features, with lifelike, sparkling eyes â Scary Peeper is the stuff nightmares are made of. Easily hangs on any window - indoors or out - with an attached suction cup. Vinyl construction with a real fabric hoodie. When you really want to ...
Lucille Witch Figure$89.00
QuicklookLucille Witch Figure$89.003' tall witch figure, dressed in Halloween orange and black. Plush construction featuring high-quality fabrics. Weighted bottom allows Lucille to easily sit in the optional wood Rocking Chair (sold separately). Thelma Witch Figure is made with the same level of detail and makes a perfect companion. Somehow, like Halloween magic, artist Joe Spencer transforms the witch from chilling to charming with his delightful Lucille Witch Figure. An impressive 3 ft. tall, with a highly expressive, ...
Bat Poncho with JewelsReg $69.00 Now $19.00
QuicklookBat Poncho with JewelsReg $69.00 Now $19.00Figurative bat wing poncho trimmed in red and black acrylic jewels. Tailored from black jersey knit fabric. One-size fits most. Bat poncho creates the perfect backdrop for showcasing our wickedly fashionable Raven Necklace and Raven Bracelet jewelry. Imported. Look positively fantastic for fright night, or a Halloween party, with minimal effort, by donning our hauntingly simple and stylish Bat Poncho with Jewels. So easy and comfortable, it's scary. Slip poncho over any ensemble for an ...
Disfigured DuckReg $49.00 Now $14.00
QuicklookDisfigured DuckReg $49.00 Now $14.00Static, painted duck figure with a partially exposed skeleton. Intricately detailed and painted in green, orange, and brown hues. Sculpted from durable resin for display indoors or out. Disfigured duck works in naturally haunting harmony with our Animated Sharp Dressed Skeleton figure. Our Disfigured Duck is disturbing proof simple doesn't necessarily mean any less scary. With its exposed skeleton and (eek!) eyeball in its beak, he'll have even the most seasoned Halloween revelers scurrying ...
Petal PumpkinReg $99.00 Now $59.00Available in Burgundy
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Orange Designer Pumpkin$39.00
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Wicked Letters$39.00
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Katherine's Collection Day of the Dead Table TopperReg $199.00 Now $149.00
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LED Twig Tree with Snow$129.00
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Kringle Stockings$39.00
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I work in a small pediatrics department where we rarely see kids with cancer. A few days ago, I overheard a child with a glioma tell her mom she was scared. The mom replied, "I know, sweetie, I'm scared too." I wasn't sure what to say but her response didn't seem helpful. What would you have said?-R.C., COLO.
I'm sure the mother was expressing her own truth by admitting that she also was frightened. But that doesn't provide much reassurance for the little girl who's undergoing terrifying treatments.
Children know when they're not going to get well. They deserve honest answers to all of their questions. When the truth's withheld, they're likely to conjure up what they believe the truth to be, which may be even worse than the reality.
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Christie Digital Projectors Power Immersive MoMA Exhibition
Christie® projectors have been selected by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for their presentation of the exhibition Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves, a moving image installation by the renowned artist and filmmaker on view in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium from November 25, 2013 through February 17, 2014. Working with MoMA, Christie partner Michael Andrews Audio Visual Services (MAAVS) selected eight Christie WU14K-M WUXGA DLP® projectors and one Christie HD14K-M 1080 HD DLP® projector to meet the needs of the exhibition and realize the ambitious vision of the artist.
Ten Thousand Waves premiered at the 2010 Sydney Biennial, and has been exhibited internationally to wide acclaim. The original inspiration for the 50-minute presentation was the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, in which 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned on a flooded sandbank off the coast of northwest England. The Christie projectors will display the installationâs beautifully crafted visuals, which incorporate images of archival footage recorded by a police helicopter the night of the tragedy, accompanied by audio recordings of distress calls from the scene. With this tragedy at the center of the work, Julien poetically interweaves images of contemporary Chinese culture with its ancient myths.
Christie Delivers for MoMA and the Artist
The technology used to present Ten Thousand Waves is essential to its exhibition at MoMA. A total of nine Christie projectors will display the work onto nine doubled-sided screens ranging in sizes from 16 feet wide up to 23 feet wide, all hung at multiple levels and locations throughout the atrium. The exhibition is intended to be viewed not only from ground level, but also from the upper floors, which themselves are at various heights and angles to the display and look down on the space. These multiple perspectives encourage audiences to move through, and interact with, the sights and sounds of the installation from their personal points of view.
Eight Christie WU14K-M projectors light up eight screens of various sizes, while one Christie HD14K-M projector lights up the ninth, and largest, screen. The intricacy of these arrangements required the use of cutting-edge audio-visual display technology to deliver powerful and bright images, as well as crisp and clear sound, to create a large-scale immersive experience. The projectors also had to be exceptionally bright to overcome the challenges of the high ambient light environment.
According to Michael Wright, President of Michael Andrews Audio Visual Services, it was paramount that the state-of-the-art display technology chosen run smoothly and bring all aspects of the installation together to achieve its full visual impact. The Marron Atrium is an expansive, high ceilinged, public space where the museum has less control of ambient light and sound, requiring a technological solution that could overcome these challenges.
âWe choose Christie high performance projectors because they offer the most reliability and flexibility, and always deliver the excellence our customers demand in their visual displays,â said Wright. âThe installation required full design flexibility, so that they could be arranged to fit the artistâs needs within the atrium space. Since the moving images are projected from challenging angles, the projectors also needed to match the images and colors flawlessly, making the Christie M Series a perfect fit for this project. Working on such a large scale and with so many projectors, the museum used the new Christie InControl⢠App to individually control and calibrate every aspect of each projector wirelessly.â
âAt Christie, we help our customers create and share the worldâs best visual experiences, and we proudly support the works of innovative artists such as Isaac Julien, who are experimenting with unique ways to tell their stories to the world,â said Mike Garrido, senior product manager, Business Products, Christie. âTen Thousand Waves is a great example of how advanced visual display technology can help facilitate an artistâs creative vision, and we are thrilled to provide Christie projectors for this exciting project at MoMA.â
Part of the Christie M-Series 3-chip DLP® projector platform, the Christie WU14K-M and Christie HD14K-M offer high resolution (1920 x 1200 WUXGA and 1920 x 1080 HD respectively), and feature embedded warping, blending, and color matching capabilities for ultimate design flexibility. Drawing a maximum power of 1500W with two lamps instead of four, they are also highly efficient, with low operating costs.
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