A late-Holocene vegetation record is presented from the southwest coast of New Caledonia. Lac Saint Louis is a freshwater swamp at 3m a.s.l. adjacent to the River Coulee delta. Pollen analysis, charcoal analysis, radiocarbon dating and stratigraphic analyses have been used to reconstruct the vegetation and sedimentary history of the swamp. The sediment record commences at 6000 BP and reflects r...

Soil redox potential (Eh), concentrations of oxygen (O2) and three greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, and N2O) were measured in the soil profile of a coastal forest at ridge, transition, and swamp across a hydrological gradient. The results delineated a distinct boundary in soil Eh and O2 concentration between the ridge and swamp with essentially no overlap between the two locations. Critical soil Eh ...

A survey of the density and population size of Bornean orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) was carried out in 1995 and 1996 in an area of peat swamp forest in the Sungai (River) Sebangau catchment, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Densities were calculated for four forest sub-types by counts of orang-utan sleeping platforms (nests) along line transects. Densities were found to be highest in the tall inte...

EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATIONS of the ecological relationships of soil microfungi with soil types, pH, moisture, horizon, temperature, and macrovegetation have been published (Parkinson and Waid, 1960; Alexander, 1961; and Burges and Raw, 1967). It is a well-established principle that soil fungi are influenced by specific soil environments. Mangroves occupy a littoral habitat, characterized almost in...

A solar drying was investigated as one of perspective techniques for fish processing in Cambodia. The solar drying was compared to conventional drying in electric oven. Five typical Cambodian fish species were selected for this study. Mean solar drying temperature and drying air relative humidity were 55.6 °C and 19.9%, respectively. The overall solar dryer efficiency was 12.37%, which is typic...

We have found that the generic name Paraseuratoides Moravec, Salgado-Maldonado et Aguilar-Aguilar, 2002 is a junior homonym to Paraseuratoides Wang, 1984. Therefore, a new name, Gibsonnema nom. n., is proposed to replace it (the new genus is named in honour of David I. Gibson, a wellknown English helminthologist). These two genera are monotypic, belonging to the seuratoid family Quimperiidae Ge...

This study quantified the seasonal pattern of reproduction in a swamp-dwelling population of the African cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae. In the hypoxic waters of the Lwamunda Swamp, Uganda, P. multicolor was reproductively active throughout the year, even during the peak of the dry seasons. However, the degree of activity was seasonal, with rainfall providing a predictor of the ...

Tree stumps of arborescent lycopods were discovered in situ at the contact of the Herrin (No. 6) Coal and the Energy Shale Members, near the Walshville paleochannel, the major river channel running through and draining the Herrin coal swamp. The stumps are associated with, and in one case attached to, fallen trunks identified as a Lepidodendron similar to L. aculeatum. The stumps and trunks occ...

The Asian buffalo or the Water buffalo is classified in the genus Bubalus, species bubalis. Taming occurred at recent times (5,000 years ago) compared to taming of Bos Taurus and Bos Indicus (10,000 years ago). Asian buffalo includes two subspecies named also types: the River and the Swamp, the morphology and the purposes of which are different as well as the genetics. The River buffalo has 50 ...

The present study was performed to determine the infection status of swamp eels with Gnathostoma sp. larvae in Myanmar. We purchased total 37 Asian swamp eels, Monopterus albus, from a local market in Yangon in June and December 2013 and 2014. All collected eels were transferred with ice to our laboratory and each of them was examined by the artificial digestion technique. A total of 401 larval...