I have received a grant from NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program titled: "Acquisition of a Capillary Genetic Analyzer for Research at Universidad del Turabo" The instrument will be available at a minimal cost to any student and scientist in the Luquillo LTER for sequencing, and TRFLP analyses. Also, identifications of fungi and bacteria from pure culture will be possible using MicroSeq.
I would like to announce the IX Latin American Botanical Congress will be held
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from June 19-25, 2006.
The following manuscripts have been accepted and will come out as a Special Issue of Biological Invasions (Earthworms as invasive species) in early 2006.
González, G., C.Yu Huang, X. Zou and C.Rodríguez. Earthworm invasions in the tropics. Biological Invasions (Special Issue).
Callaham, M.A. Jr., González, G., Hale, C.M., Heneghan, L., Lachnicht, S.L., and X. Zou. Pol icy and management responses to earthworm invasions. Biological Invasions (Special Issue).
Hendrix, P.F. Baker, G., Barois, I., Callaham, M., Damoff, G., Fragoso, C., Fraser, T., González, G., James, S., Lachnicht, S., Winsome, T., and X. Zou. Invasion of Exotic Earthworms Species into Native Earthworm Communities. Biological Invasions (Special Issue).
Shiels, A.B., L.R. Walker, and D.B. Thompson. Organic matter inputs create variable resource patches on Puerto Rican landslides. Plant Ecology, in press.