Studies on original mortars can greatly assist archaeological interpretations, as elucidating the composition of such mortars gives clues on the origin of raw materials, manufacturing technology, and the construction phases of a site. This article presents the multi-analytical characterisation of 24 mortars and plasters from the Żejtun Roman Villa, Malta, to support archaeological hypotheses on the history of the construction...

Determining statistical patterns irrespective of interacting agents (i.e. macroecology) is useful to explore the mechanisms driving population fluctuations and extinctions in natural food webs. Here, we tested four predictions of a neutral model on the distribution of community fluctuations ( CF ) and the distributions of persistence times ( APT ). Novel predictions for the food web were generated by combining (1) body size–de...

Aim To analyse the dependence of phytoplankton species richness on temperature within the framework of the metabolic theory of ecology ( MTE ) with explicit consideration of its assumptions and predictions. Location Lakes from the S outhern H emisphere – S outh A merica ( A rgentinean P ampa to T ierra del F uego) and A ntarctica – and N orthern H emisphere – N orth A merica ( USA ) and E urope ( D enmark to S pain). Methods T...

In arthropods, the intracellular bacteria W olbachia often induce cytoplasmic incompatibility ( CI ) between sperm and egg, which causes conditional embryonic death and promotes the spatial spread of W olbachia infections into host populations. The ability of W olbachia to spread in natural populations through CI has attracted attention for using these bacteria in vector‐borne disease control. The dynamics of incompatible W ol...