The effects of drip irrigation and different cultivation methods on seedgermination and growth of Puccinellia tenuiflora in saline-sodic soils wereinvestigated in field experiments during 2008-2010 in the Songnen Plain, China.Drip irrigation was applied to waste saline-sodic P. tenuiflora grasslands for bothflat and ridge cultivation methods. Drip irrigation affected the distributions ofelectri...

The application of innovative technologies in water management, such as wastewater reuse, requires a deeper understanding of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals. This study presents a unique pilot site at Horní Beřkovice in Central Bohemia, where wastewater parameters are significantly influenced by the effluent from a local psychiatric hospital, and where the treated wastewater infi...

Superabsorbent polymers (hydrogels) have been studied for their ability to influence soil hydraulic conductivity because they can store and release water due swelling properties. However, concerns related the increased use of synthetic hydrogels necessitates a switch bio-based hydrogels, which are renewable more biodegradable in comparison hydrogels. In this study, we synthesized lignin-based h...

The huntsman spider Delena cancerides (Sparassidae, Walckenaer) encompasses a number of chromosomally distinct populations (karyomorphs), including forms with entirely telocentric chromosomes, and many populations saturated for centric fusions resulting in metacentric chromosomes. Where these fusions are sex-linked, males are fi xed heterozygotes, carrying one or two sex-linked chains of chromo...

Transmissivity is an important hydraulic parameter to determine the amount of water passed horizontally across a given saturated thickness of an aquifer. The techniques to quantify this parameter, such as grain size analyses or pumping tests, can have limitations of time/spatial scale, viability, or economically. One technique that can be used, but little adopted, is the capture zone analysis. ...