This research was concerned with the way that passerine bird species use odour cues in isolation and in combination with colour cues to make decisions about new foods. Galliformes are known to demonstrate a disproportionately ...

Spinal cord injury is a tragically debilitating event affecting up to 5 or more out of every 100,000 people in many countries across the globe. Axotomised neurons in the mammalian CNS are unfortunately unable to regenerate ...

Despite the decreasing water quality and the occurrence of the crayfish plague, the unique conditions present in Ireland offer a good opportunity to study aspects of the ecology of the white-clawed crayfish. Ireland is now ...

Chydorids (Branchipoda, Anomopoda) were sampled from twenty nine Irish lakes between June 1996 and July 1997, in order to assess the usefulness of this group as indicators of lake ecological quality. The lakes represented ...

Bumble bees are eusocial insects that play a key role in ecosystem function as essential pollinators for many flowering plants (Alford, 1975). The importance of their diseases, for example damage caused by the microsporidian ...

Neuronal regeneration is extremely limited in the central nervous system (CNS) of mature amniotes. On the other hand, many anamniotes, such as some fish, display rapid morphological and functional recovery after CNS injury, ...

The tracheal mite, Acarapis woodi (Rennie), is an obligate parasite of the honeybee. It was first discovered in 1919 by Rennie during his investigation into the widespread deaths of honeybee colonies in Europe in the early ...

Ascaris suum and Ascaris lumbricoides are widespread geohelminths of pigs and humans, respectively, resulting in severe morbidity and possible mortality. The contribution of migrating A. suum larvae to liver damage has ...

Spatially explicit approaches (differing from the traditional stock assessment theory) to the assessment of scallop off the southeast coast of Ireland were developed. Different stock assessments methods were presented with ...