New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (April 2015)

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New records of Muscidae (Diptera) from Mediterranean countries

New records are provided for Muscidae from four different Mediterranean countries, with new distribution records for species in ten different genera. Seven species are newly recorded for Croatia, four species for Montenegro and one species for Bosnia & Herzegovina. In this paper we give the first confirmation of an aquatic larval stage for Lispocephalabrachialis (Rondani, 1877), Lispocephalaspu...

Persian-translation vol. 12, no.2, April 2015

Workers’ Memorial Day — April 28, 2015

411 Work-Related Asthma Cluster at a Syntactic Foam Manufacturing Facility — Massachusetts 2008–2013 415 Tracking Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, 2013–2014 421 Optimal Serum and Red Blood Cell Folate Concentrations in Women of Reproductive Age for Prevention of Neural Tube Defects: World Health Organization Guidelines 424 Announcements 427 QuickStats Workers’ Memorial Day — April...

Biodiversity, roads, & landscape fragmentation: Two Mediterranean cases

The most pervasive threats to biological diversity are directly or indirectly linked to the road networks. For this reason, over the last few decades, interest in the study of the ecological characteristics of the edges associated with roads has increased. This work aims to investigate the effect of roads as a humaninduced disturbance on the plant diversity in two managed Mediterranean forest s...