scholarly journals Present or Absent? About a Threatened Fern, Asplenium adulterinum Milde, in South-Eastern Carpathians (Romania)

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-307
Author(s):  
Attila BARTÓK ◽  
Irina IRIMIA
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Herbarium Material ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Available Information

Asplenium adulterinum Milde is one of the rarest and most threatened representatives of the Aspleniaceae family in the Carpathians. Botanical literature mentioned the ladder spleenwort in many localities in South-Eastern Carpathians in the past, but during the last decades the species has not been collected and deposited in public herbaria by any botanist. All existing herbarium material in Romanian herbaria (including Asplenium trichomanes and A. trichomanes-ramosum) was revised and all available information from botanical literature was critically compiled in order to clarify the distribution of Asplenium adulterinum in the South-Eastern Carpathians. After almost 80 years since the first mention of the species in the Carpathians, this paper reports the recent identification of Asplenium adulterinum in three new locations in South-Eastern Carpathians (Ţesna Valley, Vânturătoarea Waterfall and Şugăului Gorges).

scholarly journals Hygrocybe salicis-herbaceae (Agaricomycetes, Hygrophoraceae): an arctic-alpine species new to the South-Eastern Carpathians (Romania)

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Anna Ronikier
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Alpine Zone ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
Alpine Species ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Micromorphological Characters

New localities of <em>Hygrocybe salicis-herbaceae</em> were observed during the research on the fungi of the alpine zone in the Carpathians. This is the first record of this arctic-alpine fungus in the South-Eastern Carpathians. Macro- and micromorphological characters of the Carpathian collections are compared with the descriptions from other regions. A revision of literature data indicates that the sites in the Parâng Mts. reported here are the only known localities of the species from the entire Carpathian range.

scholarly journals New faunistic data on the family Capniidae (Plecoptera) from the Carpathians (Romania and Ukraine)

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Anna Dénes ◽  
Dávid Murányi ◽  
Ádám Soós ◽  
Emőke Szőcs ◽  
Lujza Keresztes
Keyword(s):  
Active Species ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

Zwicknia acuta is reported for the first time from the South-Eastern Carpathians (Romania and Ukraine). Additionally, another stonefly species, Zwicknia kovacsi, previously described from Romania, is added to the Plecoptera fauna of Ukraine. New faunistic data are presented for two other winter-active species, Capnia vidua rilensis and Zwicknia bifrons. Based on a combination of personal and literature data we present a checklist of Capniidae from Romania and provide a key for them.

scholarly journals Heavy rains and extreme rainfall-runoff events in Central Europe from 1951 to 2002

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Müller ◽  
M. Kašpar ◽  
J. Matschullat
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Extreme Rainfall ◽  
Simultaneous Occurrence ◽  
The South ◽  
Eastern Area ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
Thermodynamic Conditions ◽  
Heavy Rains ◽  
Precipitation Events

Abstract. Runoff data were used to better select historically significant precipitation events. The suggested criterion Qx expresses the increase of a stream runoff over up to four days in a row. Tests confirmed that Qx maxima correspond to maxima of areal precipitation in the respective catchment. Ten significant precipitation events in summer half-years from 1951 to 2002 were selected in 25 catchments each, and further studied in respect to spatial extent, simultaneous occurrence in various river basins, seasonal distribution, and temporal variability. Four regions were recognised within Central Europe that show related seasonality and simultaneous occurrence of events. The main coincidence of significant precipitation events was confirmed between the Austrian Alps and Bohemia and Saxony on one hand, and Moravia, Silesia, and Western Slovakia on the other hand. Significant events typically emerge here during peak summer, in the south-eastern area of the Alps during autumn months, in the South-Eastern Carpathians from May to July, and in Western Germany in spring or autumn. Episodes with less significant precipitation events (around 1960 and 1990) alternate with inverse episodes (1970's, second half of the 1990's). A reasonable selection of reference events opens the door to a quantitative evaluation of dynamic and thermodynamic conditions typical for heavy rains in various parts of Central Europe.

Architecture of the south-eastern Carpathians nappes and Focsani Basin (Romania) from 2D ray tracing of densely-spaced refraction data

2009 ◽  
Vol 476 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 512-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Bocin ◽  
Randell Stephenson ◽  
Victor Mocanu ◽  
Liviu Matenco
Keyword(s):  
Ray Tracing ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
Refraction Data

scholarly journals Fire, vegetation and Holocene climate in the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau: a multi-biomarker reconstruction from Paru Co

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Callegaro ◽  
Felipe Matsubara Pereira ◽  
Dario Battistel ◽  
Natalie M. Kehrwald ◽  
Broxton W. Bird ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Biomass Burning ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Vegetation Changes ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Eastern Tibetan Plateau ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Concentrations

Abstract. The fire history of the Tibetan Plateau over centennial to millennial timescales is still unknown. Recent ice core studies reconstruct fire history over the past few decades but do not extend through the Holocene. Lacustrine sedimentary cores, however, provide continuous records of large-scale and local environmental modifications due to their accumulation of specific organic molecular markers throughout the past millennia. In order to reconstruct Holocene fire events and vegetation changes occurring on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding areas, we improved and integrated previous analytical methods. The multi-proxy procedure was applied to samples retrieved from Paru Co, a small lake located in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains (29°47'45.6" N; 92°21'07.2" E; 4845 m a.s.l.). The investigated biomarkers include n-alkanes as indicators of vegetation, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as combustion proxies, faecal sterols and stanols (FeSts) as indicators of the presence of humans or grazing animals and finally monosaccharide anhydrides (MAs) as specific markers of vegetation burning processes. Relatively high concentrations of both MAs and PAHs demonstrate intense local biomass burning activity during the early Holocene (10.9–10.7 cal ky BP), which correspond to a drier climate following deglaciation. High concentrations of MAs but not PAHs between 10.7–9 cal ky BP suggest a period of regional biomass burning followed by a decreasing fire trend through the mid-late Holocene. This fire history is consistent with local vegetation changes reconstructed from both n-alkanes and regional pollen records, where vegetation types depend on the centennial-scale intensity of monsoon precipitation. FeSts were below detection limits for most of the samples, suggesting limited direct human influences on fire regime and vegetation changes in the lake's catchment. Climate is the main influence on fire activity recorded in Paru Co over millennial timescales, where biomass burning fluctuates in response to alternating warm/humid and cool/dry periods.

Observations of warming on the Western Australian continental shelf

2007 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Pearce ◽  
Ming Feng
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Warming Trend ◽  
Eastern Indian Ocean ◽  
The South ◽  
Leeuwin Current ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Western Australian

Global temperature datasets indicate a warming trend in the south-eastern Indian Ocean of ~0.02°C year–1. This is supported by in situ temperature measurements at a coastal monitoring station on the Western Australian continental shelf that have shown a mean temperature rise of 0.013°C year–1 since 1951, corresponding to ~0.6°C over the past 5 decades. Measurements from three other shallow stations between 1985 and 2004 indicated warming trends of 0.026–0.034°C year–1. It is suggested that enhanced air–sea heat flux into the south-eastern Indian Ocean may be a key factor in the rising temperature trend. There has also been a steady rise in salinity over the past half-century. At interannual scales, coherent temperature variability at the various stations indicates that larger-scale processes are influencing the shelf waters and are linked with El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related events in coastal sea level and hence the Leeuwin Current.

A genetic portrait of the South-Eastern Carpathians based on autosomal short tandem repeats loci used in forensics

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. e23139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Benvisto ◽  
Francesco Messina ◽  
Andrea Finocchio ◽  
Luis Popa ◽  
Mihaela Stefan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Short Tandem Repeats ◽  
Tandem Repeats ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
Autosomal Short Tandem Repeats ◽  
Short Tandem

scholarly journals Tebat Rasau Geopark: Ethnobiology and Ethnogeology of a Pleistocene River in Belitung, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-149
Author(s):  
Ary Prihardhyanto Keim ◽  
Fithrorozi Fithrorozi ◽  
Tukul Rameyo Adi ◽  
R. Indarjani ◽  
Fauzi Akbar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
River System ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
Herbal Tea ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People

Belitung is an island on the south eastern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Geologically, Belitung is an continental island and during Pleistocene was united with Sumatra and Borneo to form a subcontinent named Sundaland indicated by the existence of an archaic Pleistocene river located in Tebat Rasau in the East Belitung Regency with the presence of Asiatic arowana (Scleropages formosus) and non-poisonous freshwater pufferfish from the genus Pao, which is identified here as resembling Pao hilgendorfii. The existence of these biota strengthening the concept of Sundaland and has put Belitung tributaries closer to mainland Borneo’s river system rather than that of Sumatra’s. Fascinating discoveries found in this current study are the fact that the people of Tebat Rasau acknowledge based on the presence of the Asiatic arowana and non-poisonous pufferfish about the union of Belitung with the mainland Borneo and Sumatra in the past long before the concept of Sundaland itself was formulated and published. This knowledge has put the people of Tebat Rasau more aware on the conservation of the area and fully supports the appointment of the Tebat Rasau vicinity as a National Geopark. The local products have also produced from the vicinity including the well-known herbal tea from the leaves of Pelawan tree (Tristaniopsis merguensis; Myrtaceae) known as “Pelawan Tea”.

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