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Afroz Alam
Pág. 263 - 275
Nilgiri hills being a part of biodiversity hot spot, is a home of colossal life forms including bryophytes. Bryophytes have a great diversity in Nilgiri hills which includes both terricolous and corticolous forms. This study deals with morphotaxonomy of ...
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Onkar Singh Brraich, Sunil Kumar Saini
Pág. 106 - 113
Diversity of fishes was evaluated at the Ranjit Sager Wetland and its three adjoining streams. Factors like altitude, bed gradient, dominated substratum and habitat types of the streams have also been studied. These streams fall under Type-B category on ...
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Caitlin Cunningham and Mohammad Gharipour
Wastewater treatment systems in urban areas of the United States have reached a critical replacement age. From century-old, deteriorating systems raw sewage overflows into basements, streets and surface waters. In economically depressed cities, sewage ov...
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Caitlin Cunningham and Mohammad Gharipour
Wastewater treatment systems in urban areas of the United States have reached a critical replacement age. From century-old, deteriorating systems raw sewage overflows into basements, streets and surface waters. In economically depressed cities, sewage ov...
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A. A. Grez, T. Zaviezo
Pág. 29 - 34
Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss may affect insect abundance. Generally, small and isolated plant fragments support a depressed abundance of insects because of a lower resource abundance compared to that in large ones. Nevertheless, immediately aft...
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Gasper L. Sechu, Bertel Nilsson, Bo V. Iversen, Mette B. Greve and Mogens H. Greve
Groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems (GWDTE) have been increasingly under threat due to groundwater depletion globally. Over the past 200 years, there has been severe artificial drainage of low-lying areas in Denmark, leading to a gradual loss of...
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Maurizio Pinna, Francesco Zangaro, Benedetta Saccomanno, Chiara Scalone, Fabio Bozzeda, Lucia Fanini and Valeria Specchia
In order to halt the loss of global biodiversity and considering the United Nations Decade for Ocean Conservation Agenda, increasing efforts to improve biomonitoring programs and assessment of ecosystem health are needed. Aquatic environments are among t...
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Kamiya Varshney, Maibritt Pedersen Zari and Nilesh Bakshi
Carbon sequestration (CS) and habitat provisioning (HP) through building-integrated vegetation are interlinked approaches that could potentially reduce climate change and biodiversity loss attributed to the built environment. However, a practical approac...
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Maria Rita Palombo
Extinction of species has been a recurrent phenomenon in the history of our planet, but it was generally outweighed in the course of quite a long geological time by the appearance of new species, except, especially, for the five geologically short times ...
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Afroz Alam
Pág. 58 - 67
Studies on the order Marchantiales of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR), Western Ghats, India, have revealed the occurrence of three taxa of genus Targionia L., namely Targionia hypophylla L., Targionia lorbeeriana K. Müll., and Targionia indica Udar et A....
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Afroz Alam
Pág. 58 - 67
Studies on the order Marchantiales of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR), Western Ghats, India, have revealed the occurrence of three taxa of genus Targionia L., namely Targionia hypophylla L., Targionia lorbeeriana K. Müll., and Targionia indica Udar et A....
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Chiara Facca, Francesco Cavraro, Piero Franzoi and Stefano Malavasi
Transitional waters are fragile ecosystems with high ecological, social and economic values, that undergo numerous threats. According to the information provided by European Member States in the framework of the European Directive 92/43/EEC (Habitat Dire...
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Janine M Castro, Aaron Beavers
Pág. 1 - 20
Aquatic organism passage barriers have been identified as one of the key impediments to recovery of salmonids and other migratory aquatic organisms in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. As such, state and federal agencies invest millions of doll...
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Janine M Castro and Aaron Beavers
Aquatic organism passage barriers have been identified as one of the key impediments to recovery of salmonids and other migratory aquatic organisms in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. As such, state and federal agencies invest millions of doll...
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Erica McClaren,Todd Mahon,Frank I. Doyle,William L. Harrower
Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis laingi) have been recognized as a species of management concern in western North America for over 20 years. One of the most significant factors threatening Northern Goshawk populations in coastal British Columbia is ...
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Hélène Vogt-Schilb, Philippe Geniez, Roger Pradel, Franck Richard, Bertrand Schatz
It is important to evaluate the loss of biodiversity caused by global changes. In the case of orchids, it is still unclear how long the monitoring duration should be chosen in order to achieve a good compromise between the reliability of the orchid dynam...
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Dimitrios Kalfas, Stavros Kalogiannidis, Olympia Papaevangelou and Fotios Chatzitheodoridis
The complex interplay between land use planning, water resource management, and the effects of global climate change continues to attract global attention. This study assessed the connection between land use planning, water resources, and global climate ...
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Alessio Marrone, Maria Cristina Mangano, Alan Deidun, Manuel Berlino and Gianluca Sarà
Habitat fragmentation (HF) is an ecological process, which is potentially also one of the main causes of diversity loss. Many studies have debated the best tools to adopt for assessing the effects of HF. The traditional application of biodiversity metric...
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Jatdilok Titioatchasai, Komwit Surachat, Ekkalak Rattanachot, Piyalap Tuntiprapas and Jaruwan Mayakun
Seagrass ecosystems have been declining, and restorations are conducted in many parts of the world to compensate for habitat loss and restore the ecosystem services seagrasses provide. Assessment of transplantation success requires the monitoring of the ...
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Daria Wieslawa Krasiewicz and Grzegorz Wierzbicki
The origin and dynamics of a 2010 pluvial flood in the valley of a large European river are described. In order to study how local people perceive this catastrophic event a small administrative unit (rural municipality) within the Holocene floodplain (th...
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