Interand intra-site variability in faunal assemblages from Epipalaeolithic sites in the southern Levant are investigated to identify broad patterns of human hunting efficiency and specific human activities at individual sites. The examination of eleven assemblages from the Mediterranean phytogeographic zone of Israel indicates a decline in human hunting efficiency across the Epipalaeolithic per...

The current trend of declining epiphytic richness caused by human activities (forest fragmentation, logging , agriculture, and livestock grazing) and the greater efforts required to sample and identify the most inconspicuous species have necessitated the use of indicators of the species richness. In this study, we examined the potential of predicting epiphytic lichen richness based on the richn...

Published information on airborne algae and cyanobacteria worldwide and the related human health effects is scarce. Since 1844, a total of 353 morphological taxa (genera or species) have been identified in aerobiological studies. However, due to diverse methodologies and different microorganisms targeted in these studies, direct comparisons on the occurrences of airborne algae and cyanobacteria...

phytoplankton taxa composition of the caspian sea were evaluated by using samples collected at 12 stations along the iranian coast of the caspian sea between 1996 and 2010. this study identified 158 phytoplankton species consisted of diatoms (70 species), dinoflagellates (23 species), chlorophytes (29 species), cyanophytes (31 species), and euglenoids (5 species). the dominant species were the ...

This study focuses on the analysis of wood charcoal from Cova del Vidre (Roquetes, Tarragona, Spain). cave, located at an altitude 1000 m a.s.l., is a key site for understanding transition hunting and gathering to farming in mountainous region north-eastern Iberia so far unexplored by archaeobotany. The anthracological based four archaeological levels Epipalaeolithic Early Neolithic dated betwe...

The large-scale deep-sea biodiversity distribution of the benthic fauna was explored in the Mediterranean Sea, which can be seen as a miniature model of the oceans of the world. Within the framework of the BIOFUN project ("Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Contrasting Southern European Deep-sea Environments: from viruses to megafauna"), we investigated the large spatial scale variabilit...

a total of 90 species, belonging to 29 genera and 15 families, observed from an urban wetland of meghalaya is the species-rich rotifera assemblage known till date from any sub-tropical ecosystem of the indian sub-region. total richness (s) merits biodiversity value as ~56.0, ~ 38.0 and ~23.0 % of the species recorded from meghalaya, northeast india (nei) and india, respectively while several ro...

The cytochrome b gene of three European taxa of the family of Procellariidae was amplified from total DNA and sequenced. The sequence comparison shows that the Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) is significantly distinct from shearwaters, whereas Cory's (Calonectris diomedea) and Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) are closely related. Although the populations of C. diomedea can be distinguished morph...