Xiaobing Tang. Global space and the nationalist discourse of modernity : the historical thinking of Liang Qichao

This article reviews the book Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao written by Xiaobing Tang

Land use, Settlement Patterns, and Collective Defense in the Titicaca Basin: The Constitution of Defensive Community

This paper discusses the interrelationship of settlement, community, defense, kinship, and ecology in the Lake Titicaca Basin during the Late Intermediate Period

Introduced Pathogens and Native Freshwater Biodiversity: A Case Study of Sphaerothecum destruens

A recent threat to European fish diversity was attributed to the association between an intracellular parasite, Sphaerothecum destruens, and a healthy freshwater fish carrier, the invasive Pseudorasbora parva originating from China. The pathogen was found to be responsible for the decline and local extinction of the European endangered cyprinid Leucaspius delineatus and high mortalities in stocks of Chinook and Atlantic salmon in the USA. Here, we show that the emerging S. destruens is also a threat to a wider range of freshwater fish than originally suspected such as bream, common carp, and roach. This is a true generalist as an analysis of susceptible hosts shows that S. destruens is not limited to a phylogenetically narrow host spectrum. This disease agent is a threat to fish biodiversity as it can amplify within multiple hosts and cause high mortalities