Asia and Australasia

tuberosus is maintained in scattered collections across Asia and Australasia. The Australian Tropical Crops and Forages Genetics Resources Centre, Biloela, Queensland, maintains one wild/weedy accession, originating from the U.S. (IPGRI, 2006). 

The Central Agricultural Research Institute (Gannoruwa, Peredeniya, Sri Lanka) has previously been recorded as holding one Jerusalem artichoke accession (Lawrence et al., 1986). 

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Species in this group occur in Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australasia. Their usual habitats are forests, more-open woodlands, riparian zones, and some types of agricultural areas. Most species are tropical, but some migratory species occur in temperate regions. 

Roy M. MacLeod is professor of history at the University of Sydney. Educated at Harvard, the LSE, and at Cambridge, where he took his Ph.D., he has written extensively in the history of science, medicine and technology. He has held senior appointments at the universities of Sussex and London and visiting appointments at many universities in Europe and the United States. He teaches military history, nuclear history, and the history of museums in Europe, Asia and Australasia. He has written or edited sixteen books, of which the most recent are Darwin s Laboratory Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific (Honolulu University of Hawaii Press, 1994), Technology and the Raj Technical Transfer and Technological Change in British India, 1780-1945 (New Delhi Sage, 1995), and Public Science and Public Policy in Victorian Britain (Aldershot Variorum, 1995). In 1996, he was Edelstein International Fellow in the History of Chemistry. 

Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913) British naturalist, who in 1848 went on an expedition to the Amazon, and in 1854 travelled to the Malay Archipelago. There he noticed the differences between the animals of Asia and Australasia and devised Wallace s line, which separates them. This led him to develop a theory of evolution through natural selection, v ch coincided with the views of Charles Darwin their theories were presented Jointly to the Linnaean Society in 1858. 

Allergic dermatitis is rarer than irritant dermatitis but can be more severe, potentially threatening the gardener s livelihood. Poison ivy and related members of the Anacardiaceae are important allergens in the USA with a few representatives in South Africa, Asia and Australasia they are rare sensitisers in western Europe (Dannaker and Maibach 1993). Prevention is difficult, and attempts at hyposensitisation have been frustrating. Barrier preparations are of temporary value (Marks et al. 1995). 

Wolfe JA (1979) Temperature parameters of the humid to mesic forests of eastern Asia and their relation to forests of other regions of the Northern Hemisphere and Australasia. US Geol Surv Prof Pap 1106 1-37 Wolfe JA (1990) Palaeobotanical evidence for a marked temperature increase following the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Nature 343 153-156... 

I wish you d look at the map on the next page. It s a map of the Old World, or what the geopoliticians call the World Island. It includes the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. Eighty-two per cent of the people of the world live in Europe, Asia or Africa. Only eighteen per cent live on the rest of the earth s land surface—that is. North and South America, the British Isles, Australasia and the Pacific Islands. 

Human beings have evolved in a hostile environment in which food has always been scarce. It is only in the last half-century, and only in Western Europe, North America and Australasia, that there is a surplus of food. As discussed in Chapter 8, food is still short in much of Africa, Asia and Latin America. 

Tularaemia is caused by the tiny intracellular Gram-negative coccobacillus Francisella tularensis and is primarily carried by small mammals. Several different infective biovars exist. The disease does not occur naturally in the UK but is common in parts of rural Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia. Tularaemia is considered to be one of the most highly communicable bacterial pathogens known. 

This is a family of southern and southeastern Asia, Australasia, and South America. It furnishes a few ornamentals. 

Species of psittacids occur in Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar, South and Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand. The greatest richness of species occurs in Australasia and SouthAmeri-ca. No native species of the parrot family now breed in North America, although one previously abundant species, the Carolina parakeet, is recently extinct. 

The cockatoos are large birds with mobile crests, occurring in Australasia and parts of Southeast Asia. These are in the family Cacatuidae, and are not members of the Psittacidae, although they are very similar animals. 

North America Latin America Western Europe Africa, Asia, Australasia and Japan... 

Australian Mineral Industries Research Association (AMIRA) http //www.amira.com.au/ (accessed July 12,2010). AMIRA International is an industry association and not-for-profit, private sector company that manages collaborative research for more member companies in the minerals industry in Australasia, Asia, Europe, Africa, and North and South America. The association provides a forum for the minerals industry to meet, network, and cooperate in areas of common interest. AMIRA develops and manages jointly funded research projects on a fee-for-service basis on behalf of its members. 

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