scholarly journals The role of diaspore banks for the restoration of floodplain meadows. Results of a long term monitoring on the Northern Upper Rhine (Germany)

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Erika Schneider-Binder
Keyword(s):  
Wild Boar ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Diaspore Bank ◽  
Upper Rhine ◽  
Term Monitoring

Abstract The reconnection of the inner area of the island Kühkopf/Northern Upper Rhine to the hydrological dynamic of the river was the beginning of a large scale restoration programme for turning back to the previous vegetation – floodplain meadows. From the various aspects of the restoration are presented the succession phases; species with their different type of dispersal are analysed as well. A special attention is given to the role of diaspores of the soil, which play an important role in the redevelopment of floodplain meadows. Species of the diaspore bank can recur after many years, if favourable conditions are available. These are related to floods, dryness and rooting up by wild boar with the development of micro-succession stages.

The role of exotic ladybeetles in the decline of native ladybeetle populations: evidence from long-term monitoring

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Bahlai ◽  
Manuel Colunga-Garcia ◽  
Stuart H. Gage ◽  
Douglas A. Landis
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

scholarly journals Long-term monitoring of classical swine fever in wild boar (Sus scrofa sp.) using serological data

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Rossi ◽  
Marc Artois ◽  
Dominique Pontier ◽  
Catherine Cruci�re ◽  
Jean Hars ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wild Boar ◽  
Sus Scrofa ◽  
Classical Swine Fever ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Serological Data ◽  
Term Monitoring

Large-scale, long-term monitoring of Caribbean coral reefs: Simple, quick, inexpensive techniques

1994 ◽  
Vol 421 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Aronson ◽  
P. J. Edmunds ◽  
W. F. Precht ◽  
D. W. Swanson ◽  
D. R. Levitan
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Caribbean Coral ◽  
Caribbean Coral Reefs ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

scholarly journals The Italian TREETALKER NETWORK (ITT-Net): continuous large scale monitoring of tree functional traits and vulnerabilities to climate change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Castaldi ◽  
Serena Antonucci ◽  
Shahla Asgharina ◽  
Giovanna Battipaglia ◽  
Luca Belelli Marchesini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Real Time ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Operation Mode ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Term Monitoring

<p>The  <strong>Italian TREETALKER NETWORK (ITT-Net) </strong>aims to respond to one of the grand societal challenges: the impact of climate changes on forests ecosystem services and forest dieback. The comprehension of the link between these phenomena requires to complement the most classical approaches with a new monitoring paradigm based on large scale, single tree, high frequency and long-term monitoring tree physiology, which, at present, is limited by the still elevated costs of multi-sensor devices, their energy demand and maintenance not always suitable for monitoring in remote areas. The ITT-Net network will be a unique and unprecedented worldwide example of real time, large scale, high frequency and long-term monitoring of tree physiological parameters. By spring 2020, as part of a national funded project (PRIN) the network will have set 37 sites from the north-east Alps to Sicily where a new low cost, multisensor technology “the TreeTalker®” equipped to measure tree radial growth, sap flow, transmitted light spectral components related to foliage dieback and physiology and plant stability (developed by Nature 4.0), will monitor over 600 individual trees. A radio LoRa protocol for data transmission and access to cloud services will allow to transmit in real time high frequency data on the WEB cloud with a unique IoT identifier to a common database where big data analysis will be performed to explore the causal dependency of climate events and environmental disturbances with tree functionality and resilience.</p><p>With this new network, we aim to create a new knowledge, introducing a massive data observation and analysis, about the frequency, intensity and dynamical patterns of climate anomalies perturbation on plant physiological response dynamics in order to: 1) characterize the space of “normal or safe tree operation mode” during average climatic conditions; 2) identify the non-linear tree responses beyond the safe operation mode, induced by extreme events, and the tipping points; 3) test the possibility to use a high frequency continuous monitoring system to identify early warning signals of tree stress which might allow to follow tree dynamics under climate change in real time at a resolution and accuracy that cannot always be provided through forest inventories or remote sensing technologies.</p><p>To have an overview of the ITT Network you can visit www.globaltreetalker.org</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Fluctuating food resources influence developmental plasticity in wild boar

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 20130419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlène Gamelon ◽  
Mathieu Douhard ◽  
Eric Baubet ◽  
Olivier Gimenez ◽  
Serge Brandt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wild Boar ◽  
Sus Scrofa ◽  
Developmental Plasticity ◽  
Food Resources ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Coin Flipping ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Reproductive Tactic ◽  
Term Monitoring

To maximize long-term average reproductive success, individuals can diversify the phenotypes of offspring produced within a reproductive event by displaying the ‘coin-flipping’ tactic. Wild boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) females have been reported to adopt this tactic. However, whether the magnitude of developmental plasticity within a litter depends on stochasticity in food resources has not been yet investigated. From long-term monitoring, we found that juvenile females produced similar-sized fetuses within a litter independent of food availability. By contrast, adult females adjusted their relative allocation to littermates to the amount of food resources, by providing a similar allocation to all littermates in years of poor food resources but producing highly diversified offspring phenotypes within a litter in years of abundant food resources. By minimizing sibling rivalry, such a plastic reproductive tactic allows adult wild boar females to maximize the number of littermates for a given breeding event.

Water quality changes in south-central Ontario lakes and the role of local factors in regulating lake response to regional stressors

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1038-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle E. Palmer ◽  
Norman D. Yan ◽  
Andrew M. Paterson ◽  
Robert E. Girard
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Acidic Deposition ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Quality Changes ◽  
South Central ◽  
Chloride Water ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

The long-term monitoring of eight lakes near Dorset, Ontario, indicates that the water quality has changed significantly over the last 30 years. However, trends in the Dorset lakes may not be representative of changes in other south-central Ontario lakes, as the Dorset lakes are within a small area and span a limited gradient of lake and watershed characteristics. To determine the regional extent of water quality changes, we assessed the chemical changes in 36 diverse lakes that were first sampled between 1981 and 1990 and were resampled in 2004–2005. Similar to trends in the Dorset lakes, changes in the regional lakes included decreasing acidity, calcium, conductivity, metals, and phosphorus, and increasing dissolved organic carbon, nitrogen, sodium, and chloride. Water quality changes were driven by regional stressors, including acidic deposition, climate, and lakeshore residential development. However, stressor-induced responses differed among lakes. Increases in sodium and chloride were greater in developed lakes that were close to winter-maintained roads. Site-specific characteristics, such as lake and watershed morphometry, could not explain heterogeneous changes in the remaining water quality parameters. These results indicate that other factors play an important role in regulating individual lake response to regional stressors.

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