Up to 50% of organic C and 80% of organic N within soil can exist as amino acids, amino sugars and carbohydrates. To determine how potential microbial accessibility and turnover of these compounds is impacted by encroachment of woody plants into grasslands, we investigated changes in evolved CO2 during thermal analysis and in carbohydrate and amino compound chemistry after long term laboratory ...

Terrestrial isopods were collected in 13 forest fragments differing in area (within the range of 0.1 and 254.5 ha), shape and composition of forest vegetation (thermophilous oak, mesophilous oak-hornbeam, thermophilous oak-hornbeam, acidophilous oak, basiphilous oak, beech oak-hornbeam, moist mixed deciduous forest, plantations of deciduous and coniferous trees), all situated in the Český kras ...

Urbanization is a process globally responsible for loss of biodiversity and for biological homogenization. Urbanization may have a direct negative impact on species behaviour and indirect effects on species populations through alterations of their habitats, for example patch size and habitat quality. Woodpeckers are species potentially susceptible to urbanization. These birds are mostly forest ...

Habitat fragmentation often arises from human-induced alterations to the matrix that reduce or eliminate dispersal between habitat patches. Elimination of dispersal increases local extinction and decreases recolonization. These phenomena were observed in the eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris collaris), which lives in the mid-continental highland region of the Ozarks (Missouri, USA) ...

Forests provide many resources, ecosystem services and absorb carbon dioxide, which helps in climate regulation. In spite of the enormous benefits forests, issue deforestation is still ongoing. There has been a continuous decline forests globally forest area Boabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary (BFMS) Ghana facing similar threat. The aim study to determine different cover types changes BFMS. Satellit...

This demonstration shows parts of the Ambient Wood experience project which has taken place in an English woodland setting during the past year. The project provides a playful learning experience for schoolchildren on a digitally enhanced field trip. A WiFi network was installed in the woods to enable communication with PDAs and a collection of innovative devices was designed to aid interactive...

The Souss Basin is a dryland environment featuring soil, surface and climatic conditions enhancing processes of wind erosion mineral organic dust emissions while subject to frequent grazing, tillage driving. fine-grained compacted surfaces are covered by physical biological crusts stone cover sparsely vegetated open argan woodland patchily distributed bushes. Wind-tunnel experiments soil sampli...

Abstract The European Turtle Dove (turtle dove) is globally threatened after undergoing a sustained and generalised decline across its breeding range, with habitat loss suggested as the main driver. Here, we reviewed scientific literature on associations in relation to distribution, numbers, nesting substrates, food foraging habitats, identify optimal management measures. Large-scale distributi...