The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems.

Resilience underpins the sustainability of both ecological and social systems. Extensive loss of reef corals following recent mass bleaching events have challenged the notion that support of system resilience is a viable reef management strategy. While resilience-based management (RBM) cannot prevent the damaging effects of major disturbances, such as mass bleaching events, it can support natural processes that promote resistance and recovery.

Protein-losing pseudomembranous colitis with cap polyposis-like features.

Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) is characterized by loss of serum proteins into the gastrointestinal tract. It may lead to hypoproteinemia and clinically present as protein deficiency edema, ascites, pleural or pericardial effusion and/or malnutrition. In most cases the site of protein loss is the small intestine.

[Pareses, myalgias, and massive CK elevation: a severe neurological disorder?].

Case Report: The authors report on a 51-year-old patient with transient pareses, myalgias, and a massive creatine kinase elevation which had led to an intensive neurological work-up by the general practitioner. Despite refractory hypertension, primary aldosteronism was not excluded. At the authors' clinic, the patient was diagnosed to have Conn's syndrome.

The effect of exercise on motor performance tasks used in the neurological assessment of sports-related concussion.

Sports-related concussion is assessed using both cognitive and motor performance tasks. There is limited understanding of how exercise affects these measures. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of moderate-intensity exercise on three selected measures of motor performance.

Arborescent palm seed morphology and seedling distribution.

This study examines how the seed morphology of two large arborescent palms, Attalea maripa (Aubl.) Mart. and Astrocaryum aculeatum G.