Biodiversity is a key criterion in nature protection and often indicates habitats localities rich endangered species. Our research, using 48 one-man one-day field trips, located an exceptional lichen diversity hotspot refugium for rare species, the Týřov National Nature Reserve (Czech Republic, central Bohemia). Within its 410 hectares, we detected 787 species of lichens related taxa (675 liche...

MANILA, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos took an early lead over challenger Corazon Aquino yesterday in the official canvass by the National Assembly of last w eek’s presidential election. In a brief television appearance, Marcos pledged to "honor, w ithout reservations, the people's verdict at the polls and to ex tend our hand in conciliation to those w ho have co n ­ tested the election...

A particular threat posed by climate change for biodiversity conservation, one which has scarcely been studied, is the overlap of potential distribution areas in phylogenetically closely related species. In this study, Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) was used to investigate changes Delphinium bolosii and D. fissum subsp. sordidum under future climatic scenarios. These two endangered endemi...

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis (NLFEA) of the inelastic behaviour of RC walls are often carried out for uni-directional (in-plane) horizontal cyclic loading. In this paper the behaviour of RC walls with different crosssections (T-shaped and U-shaped) subjected to bi-directional (in-plane and out-of-plane) loading is simulated by means of NLFEA. They are carried out with the software DIANA, u...