The use of revegetation techniques which lead to more rainforest-like structural conditions appears to be of over-riding importance in catalysing the rapid acquisition of volant rainforest beetle assemblages in the initial stages of restoration.
Of over-riding importance is stopping an at-risk inmate from getting hold of something they can use as a ligature.
This result can be expected because of the over-riding importance of large size for individual tree growth, notably in tropical-type forests (see inter alia Clark & Clark, 1999).
Despite these caveats, we demonstrate the over-riding importance of considering year-round dynamics for allocating conservation funds to habitat acquisition for migratory species.
Although an additive allelic model might explain variation across populations for physiological phenotypes like lung function ("passive" phenotype), 24, 25 the important effect that environmental exposures like smoking has on penetrance, might be of over-riding importance.
Phylogeographic patterns in temperate South America have also received relatively little attention, but recent studies point to the over-riding importance of two historic variables: the Andean mountain orogeny (starting approximately 23 Ma [ 4]) and the glacial cycles of the Quaternary (2.5 Ma - 10,000 bp).
However, a meta-analysis of genetic influences in AD has not supported the initial findings of cytokine gene variation as a risk factor for AD, but has instead emphasised the over-riding importance of the APOE gene polymorphism as the major genetic risk factor [ 27].
It is vital that such studies should use doses that can realistically be applied to humans, with appropriate metabolic scaling calculations, as opposed to dosing to a maximum effect that might not be possible in human studies where safety is of over-riding importance.
While such acceptance of social benefit over individual rights does not apply now to predictive and carrier testing for genetic abnormalities or to correcting genetic abnormalities – and indeed the analogy drawn here is not exact – in due course public health considerations may also achieve over-riding importance.
A middleaged man whose shabby riding gear belies his importance here maneouvres his horse expertly around the rocks.
