In the effort to determine if hydrologic restoration in Knuthsen Meadow affects root abundance and soil moisture, we gathered preliminary data to determine the optimal experimental design and sample size necessary to detect a 25% increase in root biomass and soil moisture following restoration. We found high variability in root biomass, with upstream meadow reaches having substantially greater ...

Fabaceae species play a key role in ecosystem functioning through their capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen via their symbiosis with Rhizobium bacteria. To increase benefits of using Fabaceae in agricultural systems, it is necessary to find ways to evaluate species or genotypes having potential adaptations to sub-optimal growth conditions. We evaluated the relevance of phylogenetic distance, a...

Temperate inland salt marshes, formerly used as meadows or pastures, are priority habitats in Europe and threatened by intensifying anthropogenic activites. They particularly important because of their biogeographical location on the North German Plain, which is westernmost hotspot continental halophytic vegetation Eurasia. In spite remarkably long history floristic research, there disproportio...

The ecosystem formed by the marine flowering plant Posidonia oceanica is a biodiversity reservoir and provides many services in coastal Mediterranean regions. Marine meiofauna also major component of that biodiversity, its study can be useful addressing both theoretical applied questions ecology, evolution, conservation. We review meiofaunal diversity meadow P. combining literature case study. ...

There exists increasing evidence that top-down ecological processes, such as herbivory are key in controlling marine ecosystems and their community structure. Herbivory has the potential to be altered by numerous environmental and ecological factors that operate at a variety of temporal and spatial scales, one such spatial factor is the influence of the marine landscape. We know little about ho...

Meadows are alternatives for fields with a purely equational axiomatization. At the basis of meadows lies the decision to make the multiplicative inverse operation total by imposing that the multiplicative inverse of zero is zero. Divisive meadows are meadows with the multiplicative inverse operation replaced by a division operation. Viewing a fraction as a term over the signature of divisive m...

With the development in egocentric vision, skill measurement has been recently proposed as a novel topic in this emerging field. In this report, we record the the experimenter’s first-person videos in Wet labratories (wetlab), and measure his/her operative skills. Specifically, given the videos of expert and amateur, we analyze their head motions, hands motions, eye-hand coordinations and key-m...

The importance and significance of the conservation Emerald Object “The lower part Uda River Valley” (UA0000295) in botanical general ecological aspects is discussed detail. It located on outskirts Kharkiv with an area 13,381.0 ha. studied combines floodplains regions occupied by meadows, shrub fragments forest vegetation, pine forests artificial plantations. Areas loess plateau arable land dec...

There is rich biodiversity and biomass in wetlands and these areas are important in ecosystems. Assessment of the environment of wetlands is critical in the management of pivotal ecosystems. The energy ecological footprint (EEF) is an improved form of the ecological footprint method based on the theory of energy value. EEF can be a useful tool for comparing and monitoring environmental impacts....

Abstract The paper presents results of the analysis land use map compiled for transboundary Lake Khanka Basin using remote sensing data and geoinformation systems. reflects distribution 12 categories in basin 2017 (arable land, abandoned arable paddy field, shrubs sparse growth, forest open pit, settlements, meadows pastures, wet marshes, water bodies, cuttings fire sites). structure whole Lake...