Seasonality in marine ecosystems: Peruvian seabirds, anchovy, and oceanographic conditions.

In fluctuating environments, matching breeding timing to periods of high resource availability is crucial for the fitness of many vertebrate species, and may have major consequences on population health. Yet, our understanding of the proximate environmental cues driving seasonal breeding is limited. This is particularly the case in marine ecosystems, where key environmental factors and prey abundance and availability are seldom quantified.

Nonlinear nonclassical elasticity applied to the analysis of low frequency flexural vibrations: theory and experiments.

Motivated by the increasing interest on nonlinear nondestructive damage detection, a comparison of the nonlinear elastic behavior of damaged samples and their intact state is presented. Flexural vibration is induced in thin glass plates with laser thermal shock induced micro-cracks by means of two thin piezo-ceramic patches glued in a bimorph configuration. The cases of direct excitation of a resonance and excitation of an internal resonance cases are considered.