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Changing fortunes favour the Republic; In the first of two articles, Former Irish Prime Minister, Dr Garret FitzGerald looks at the gradual reversal of the economic fortunes between Northern Ireland and the Republic over the last 30 years.(Comment)
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Byline: Dr Garret FitzGerald
IT IS possible to measure the economic performance of Northern Ireland over a period of more than half-a-century, and to compare this progress with that of both Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
Official estimates of Northern Ireland's output do not go back as far as the early 1950s, but in December 1954 Professor Charles Carter of Queen's University made estimates of the Gross National Output of Northern Ireland for the year 1953. And, two years later, I used Professor Carter's data to make a comparison between the ...
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Lazarus taxa, refugia and relict faunas: Evidence from graptolites
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...such concepts as Lazarus taxa, refugia and relict faunas. The term Lazarus taxon was coined by Flessa...1999) related Lazarus taxa to biotic crises and subsequent...of biotic crisis many taxa go extinct, but others...using the name Lazarus taxon (e.g. Batten 1973...
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Should taxon names be explicitly defined?
Magazine article from: The Botanical Review
; ...1999; Greuter et al., 2000), each taxon name is assigned a rank (see Articles...nomenclature. Thus, when introducing new taxon names i nto scientific literature, biologists...guidelines are established in the formation of taxon names so that one can readily identify...
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Lazarus taxa and fossil abundance at times of biotic crisis
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...extinctions are often followed by intervals in which taxa disappear from the fossil record only to reappear again...of fossiliferous sites and the proportion of Lazarus taxa nor are missing taxa encountered in potential refuges. Therefore, the...
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Survey of State Criteria Used to Determine the Status of Plant Taxa.
Newspaper article from: Endangered Species Update
; ...respective native taxa (species, subspecies...assigning a plant taxon status for placement...habitat in regard to the taxon's entire main range...distantly-related taxa assigned the highest...when the status of a taxon on the list is deemed...separate lists of taxa of concern that ...
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Who's where in North America? Patterns of species richness and the utility of indicator taxa for conservation.
Magazine article from: BioScience
; ...distributions of eight taxa (mammals, birds, plants...South Africa. For each taxon, a rarity-based selection...pairwise comparisons among taxa; however, few studies have examined any one taxon's ability to predict species richness in all other taxa, which is an issue of...
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Round up the usual suspects: common genera in the fossil record and the nature of wastebasket taxa
Magazine article from: Paleobiology
; ...Neogene, whereas rare taxa show far less change...treat rare and common taxa separately. Vermeij and...relationships between taxon spatial distribution and...effects of common and rare taxa on the results of macroevolutionary...last appearances of a taxon (e.g., Sepkoski 2002...
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MDSI Selected By Denmark's Taxa Faellescentralen For Advantex-Taxi Solution.
PR Newswire
; MDSI and Taxa Faellescentralen team up to centralize dispatch...that it has entered into an agreement with Taxa Faellescentralen of Kolding, Denmark to...implementation of Advantex-Taxi will centralize Taxa Faellescentralen's dispatching and fleet...
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NEW TAXA OF TRANSVERSELY-TOOTHED LIZARDS (SQUAMATA: SCINCOMORPHA) AND NEW INFORMATION ON THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF "TEIIDS"
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology
; ...the transversely-toothed taxa with Bicuspidon as the sister taxon of Polyglyphanodontini new...group, Borioteiioidea new taxon, which is the sister taxon to the Teiioidea (Teiidae...interrelationships of these taxa requires the reevaluation...
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A preliminary study of the relationships of taxa included in the tribe poltyini (Araneae, Araneidae).
Magazine article from: Journal of Arachnology
; ...and the remaining Poltyini taxa, should also belong. However...found that some of Simon's taxa were seriously polyphyletic...provide a sensible out-group taxon for an analysis of the Australasian Poltys taxa. Most of the other putative...
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Morphological separation of host adapted taxa within the Hyalopterus pruni complex (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
Magazine article from: European Journal of Entomology
; ...produced three clusters corresponding to the taxa indicated by previous studies using allozyme...views, the present study showed that the taxa have their own distinct morphology. Lastly...for separating the adult apterae of the taxa are given. INTRODUCTION The adaptation...
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