Even in more temperate times, the basic mode of civic discourse there involves a lengthy question about campaign-finance reform posed by an older man wearing an L.L. Bean barn jacket.
This is the group at its most temperate and anodyne, a mode it's successfully shaken loose of in the last couple of years, but which must still seem like the correct default setting for a collection of holiday embraces.
Like this study, new natural history data on mating systems and reproductive modes in both temperate and tropical frog species are likely to challenge preconceived notions of how and why these complex reproductive behaviors evolved, Bell said.
Conversely, forest matrix invading canopy species are associated with diameter growth productivity under the resource-buffered metabolic performance trade-off mode more prominently suited to temperate zone conditions (Seydack et al. 2011, 2012).
The majority of bacteriophages are strictly lytic, in that they propagate by killing and consuming their host, but a minority of bacteriophages, called "temperate" phages, are capable of switching from the lytic mode into a dormant mode, called lysogeny, during which their genomes are passively replicated as "prophages" by the otherwise normal host cells, called "lysogens".
Haemulines are diverse in shape (elongate or stout), ecology (different feeding modes and prey items), and habitat (temperate reefs, coral reefs, sandy and muddy bottoms) [ 8- 12].
This also held when the North American's spectrum was compared with that of a geographically restricted population within the temperate region of Europe, like the Po Plain in Northern Italy (mode = 16 AFLP fragments).
Tempted by temperate climes?
Climate: Temperate and damp.
