Vegetation-site relationships of roadside plant communities in West Virginia, USA

Vegetation–site relationships of roadside plant communities in West Virginia, USA

J. S. RENTCH,* R. H. FORTNEY,† S. L. STEPHENSON,‡ H. S. ADAMS,§ W. N. GRAFTON* and J. T. ANDERSON* * Division of Forestry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; † Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA; ‡ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA; and § Dabney S. Lancaster...

Venereal disease education in West Virginia, USA.

A venereal disease educational programme entitled Venereal Disease Education in West Virginia was constructed. It consisted of a preliminary test to assess the level of general knowledge of venereal diseases, a value survey list, a lecture illustrated by colour slides, and a final test. The programme was presented to 3210 students in Northcentral West Virginia who ranged in age from 12 to 20 ye...

Plant Communities: Native Vegetation of Nebraska

At the Crossroads: Does the Configuration of Roadside Vegetation Affect Woodland Bird Communities in Rural Landscapes?

In agricultural regions worldwide, linear networks of vegetation such as hedges, fencerows and live fences provide habitat for plant and animal species in heavily modified landscapes. In Australia, networks of remnant native vegetation along roadsides are a distinctive feature of many rural landscapes. Here, we investigated the richness and composition of woodland-dependent bird communities in ...

Relationships between Environmental Factors and Plant Communities in Enclosure Rangelands (Case study: Gonbad, Hamadan)

Exclusion and not using of rangeland in the long term affects the composition and homogeneity of vegetation and consequently leads to the improvement of plants status. In this study, the characteristics and structural changes of the rangeland of Gonbad, Hamadan province, Iran, in 2014 (after 20 years of enclosure) were evaluated using Braun-Blanquet plot, Phytosociology and multivariate analysi...