Eugene Sosnovsky

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Pre-glacial Asia-to-Europe plant migration path via the Balkans?

I would be grateful for sharing publications dealing with pre-glacial (Tertiary) plant migrations from Asia to Europe, both phylogeographic papers on particular taxa and more general discussions...

12 January 2018 4,296 3 View

Is hierarchical leaf surface structure common in Rhododendron?

Have you ever encountered a hierarchical structure of the leaf surface (papillae + superimposed wax crystals) in Rhododendron? I found this in one European montane species, R. myrtifolium. Here...

22 July 2017 3,567 5 View

Does anyone have a copy of the "Rmorph" package (Windows binary) and could share it?

I am starting a plant morphometric study and have got a lot of inspiration from Julien Claude's (2008) book. It uses the "Rmorph" package quite much, but I failed to find its copy on CRAN pages. I...

23 February 2016 7,424 4 View

Are there any precise single-criterion method and statistical program to analyse leaf shape variation in plant populations?

In a morphometric variability study of montane shrub species populations, which I have just launched, leaf shape would be quite a promising character. Although commonly used in such studies, leaf...

04 February 2016 3,461 3 View

Do spider mites penetrate plant tissues with only physical force, or they use enzymes to facilitate it?

Hello to everybody. My study is focused on host preference of sucking herbivorous arthropods and, in particular, how plant leaf structural traits affect the feeding choice of herbivores. The...

03 August 2014 1,423 6 View

Can anyone share a paper on how sucking arthropod herbivores pierce plant tissue and what factors affect their feeding choice after the probing?

I study host preference of herbivorous arthropods and the host-plant traits which may affect it. In particular, I work with greenhouse plants and sucking arthropod assemblages (spider mites,...

30 June 2013 3,149 1 View