Abstract Selecting appropriate candidates for genetic rescue mostly relies on previous research and monitoring, while ecological behavioural traits of the remnant source populations are rarely considered such conservation measures. Because their slow recovery, Eurasian lynx Lynx in Central Western Europe have been a repeated target reinforcements reintroductions past 50 years. Once inhabiting m...

Pollen and plant macrofossil analyses supported with radiocarbon dating were conducted on a Holocene core from the peat bog Beliya Kanton (1547 m a.s.l.) located in Western Rhodope Mountains (South Bulgaria). In early until ~10 000 cal. BP mountain slopes covered by Pinus, admixed Betula, Juniperus shrubland of Ephedra among herb communities dominated Poaceae, Cichorioideae, Achillea, Artemisia...

Ratites (ostriches Struthio camelus) and ungulates (red deer Cervus elaphus scoticus and goats Capra hircus) were presented with 14 indigenous shrubs in cafeteriastyle trials. The shrubs represented the spectrum of woody plant architecture, ranging from broadleaved monopodial species through to small-leaved highly branched divaricates. Trials were stopped when almost all shoots of the plant exp...

Tree species identification is important for a variety of natural resource management and monitoring activities including riparian buffer characterization, wildfire risk assessment, biodiversity monitoring, and wildlife habitat assessment. Intensity data recorded for each laser point in a LIDAR system is related to the spectral reflectance of the target material and thus may be useful for diffe...

Four new Hydnellum species are described. roseoviolaceum sp. nov . grows in dry pine heaths on acidic, sandy soil. It is close to H. fuligineoviolaceum , another pine-associated species, but differs by smaller spores, an initially rose-coloured instead of violet flesh fresh basidiomata and a mild taste. scabrosellum coniferous forests calcareous shares general morphology with scabrosum which al...

Forests are one of the key elements in ecological transition policies Europe. Sustainable forest management is needed order to optimise wood harvesting, while preserving carbon storage, biodiversity and other functions. Forest managers public bodies need improved cost-effective monitoring tools. Research studies have been carried out assess use optical radar images for producing height or bioma...

Despite the definition of social and cultural values as third pillar Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in 2003 guidelines for their implementation SFM 2007 issued by Ministerial Conference on Protection Europe (MCPFE), importance is not sufficiently transferred into forest planning conservation. Tuscany widely known quality its landscape, however, abandonment agro-pastoral surfaces a conseque...

Tree mortality is a key process underlying forest dynamics and community assembly. Understanding how tree mortality is driven by simultaneous drivers is needed to evaluate potential effects of climate change on forest composition. Using repeat-measure information from c. 400,000 trees from the Spanish Forest Inventory, we quantified the relative importance of tree size, competition, climate and...

The importance of understory vegetation cannot be denied as an integral component forest ecosystems, but there is a dearth studies to explore the effects environmental variables and canopy species on its diversity composition. Here we investigated overstory stand structure in old-growth Monotheca buxifolia dominated forests with considerable co-dominance other broadleaved by using ecologically ...

Background To facilitate climatic change adaptation, landscape and conservation managers require understanding of spatio-temporal patterns expansion potential dominant species. Studying past expansions canopy-dominant trees can contribute such understanding.Aims Test hypotheses about dominants using as a model the mid-Holocene forests dominated by Pinus sylvestris in Scottish Highlands.Methods ...