Quantitative estimates of change primeval European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests at the landscape scale over time are scarce due to both few remnants such and absence repeated sample plot inventories. This forest ecosystem is thought be relatively stable time, but it remains unclear what drivers contribute this stability. Here, we studied temporal in one largest forests. Our analysis based...

Madhuca bourdillonii (Gamble) Lam. and Syzygium travancoricum Gamble, considered almost extinct but later found to be occurring in small numbers in their home range in Western Ghats, south of Palghat Gap, have been now discovered in some of the relic primeval evergreen forests of Uttara Kannada, over 700 km north. These relic forests also shelter scores of other rare endemic elements of flora a...

More than 30 years aft er the discovery of split genes the problem of intron origin is not yet completely solved. To study the possible germ of life on Earth we developed a quite diff erent point of view – the third way of origin of genes – as an alternative to the Exon theory of genes and the Insertional theory of intron origin. In accordance to the elaborated model the precursors of primeval ...

The article offers a non-anthropocentric reading of Simona Kossak’s Saga Puszczy Białowieskiej. It also examines the context scholarly research into human activity in Białowieża Primeval Forest (Otton Hademann, Tomasz Samojlik). author looks at generic characteristics this volume and observes that by using her knowledge nature history, Kossak gives saga character palimpsest deconstructs certain...

in this study, the notions of homelessness and unhomeliness are studied in 2 novels by naipaul: half a life (2001) and magic seeds (2004). naipaul has been viewed by many postcolonial critics as an imperially complicit writer, for his controversial views of places and societies, particularly his disdain for non-western societies. this study examines whether the imperatives of the postcolonial c...