Biological Observations on the Salsola tragus L. Weed Feeder Conorhynchus kindermanni Faust, 1904 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Ağrı Mountain Lowland Area

2021 ◽  
Vol 147 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neslihan Gültekin ◽  
Ramazan Gürbüz ◽  
Celalettin Gözüaçik
Keyword(s):  
Lowland Area

Ages of carbonatites and other alkaline rocks in Quebec

1968 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1401-1407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Doig ◽  
Jackson M. Barton Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Northern Boundary ◽  
Alkaline Rocks ◽  
Continuous Structure ◽  
Boundary Fault ◽  
Igneous Activity ◽  
Lowland Area

Potassium-argon ages have been determined for alkaline rocks, including carbonatites, from some fifteen localities in Quebec. Nine centers of intrusion, including two previously documented localities, yield ages in the range 400 to 600 million years. All but two of these are located on or very near the northern boundary fault of the St. Lawrence graben system. Included in this group are four carbonatites with remarkably similar ages of intrusion (565 m.y.). The existence of this widespread coeval igneous activity along a 1200-mile segment of the lowland area and its westward extension supports the hypothesis that the St. Lawrence graben is a continuous structure, and indicates that the system has been active for at least 600 million years.

scholarly journals Topoclimate Mapping Using Landsat ETM+ Thermal Data: Wolin Island, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2712
Author(s):  
Marta Ciazela ◽  
Jakub Ciazela
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Boundary Layer Processes ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Glacial Landforms ◽  
Climatic Pattern

Variations in climatic pattern due to boundary layer processes at the topoclimatic scale are critical for ecosystems and human activity, including agriculture, fruit harvesting, and animal husbandry. Here, a new method for topoclimate mapping based on land surface temperature (LST) computed from the brightness temperature of Landsat ETM+ thermal bands (band6) is presented. The study was conducted in a coastal lowland area with glacial landforms (Wolin Island). The method presented is universal for various areas, and is based on freely available remote sensing data. The topoclimatic typology obtained was compared to the classical one based on meteorological data. It was proven to show a good sensitivity to changes in topoclimatic conditions (demonstrated by changes in LST distribution) even in flat, agricultural areas with only small variations in topography. The technique will hopefully prove to be a convenient and relatively fast tool that can improve the topoclimatic classification of other regions. It could be applied by local authorities and farmer associations for optimizing agricultural production.

The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Hamblin ◽  
Brian L. Pitcher
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
Testing Class ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Maya Collapse

Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathematical patterns that have been found to characterize large-scale conflicts in historical societies. The information used in the evaluation involves the time series data on the duration of rule by Classic elites as inferred from the production of monuments with Long Count dates at a sample of 82 ceremonial centers. The analyses confirm that the Maya data do exhibit the temporal and geographical patterns predicted from the class conflict explanation of the Classic Maya collapse. Alternative predictions from the other theories are considered but generally not found to be supported by these data.

Studies of House Leaving and Outside Resting of Anopheles gambiae Giles and Anopheles funestus Giles in East Africa. I.—The Outside Resting Population

1954 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Gillies
Keyword(s):  
Anopheles Gambiae ◽  
Anopheles Funestus ◽  
Drastic Reduction ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Resting Sites ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Anopheles Gambiae Giles ◽  
Gravid Females ◽  
Periodic Examination

The behaviour of Anopheles gambiae Giles and A. funestus Giles was studied under natural conditions in a lowland area of Tanganyika.Studies on the outside resting population were carried out by direct searching for natural resting sites, and by the use of artificial box shelters partly buried in the ground in shaded localities. Catches in these give a valid sample when set up at some distance from houses.Fed and gravid females comprised 67 per cent. of the outside resting gambiae population, the latter group being between 12 and 4·5 times as numerous as the former. Rather less than half the funestus females caught were unfed, the remainder of the population being mainly composed of gravid females.Precipitin tests on the small numbers of fed females caught outside were nearly all positive for man.The identification of gravid funestus females was confirmed by periodic examination of the eggs.Entry of females into outside shelters did not occur solely in the period around sunrise. An appreciable number of funestus females did not enter before 07.00 hours and this was particularly so in shaded shelters.The building of a hut in the vicinity of a box shelter caused a drastic reduction in the numbers of mosquitos resting in the latter.Outside biting activity in these two species is of negligible importance as a source of females resting outside.

Genetic diversity and differentiation of Siberian stone pine populations at the southern range margin in the West Siberia lowland area

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 449-459
Author(s):  
E. A. Petrova ◽  
S. N. Velisevich ◽  
M. M. Belokon ◽  
Yu. S. Belokon ◽  
D. V. Politov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
Stone Pine ◽  
The West ◽  
Siberian Stone Pine ◽  
Range Margin ◽  
Siberian Stone ◽  
Lowland Area

scholarly journals Leaching and residual activity of imidazolinone herbicides in lowland soils

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Paulo Refatti ◽  
Luis Antonio de Avila ◽  
José Alberto Noldin ◽  
Igor Pacheco ◽  
Rodrigo Ribeiro Pestana
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa L ◽  
Residual Activity ◽  
Underground Water ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Treatment Control ◽  
Irrigated Rice ◽  
Leaching Potential ◽  
Phytotoxic Activity ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Imidazolinone Herbicides

ABSTRACT: Herbicides used in the Clearfield® rice (Oryza sativa L.) production system have a potential for leaching. This can result in contamination of underground water resources and cause injury to not tolerant crops that are sown in a succession and/or crop rotation. The objective of this study was to determine the leaching potential and the residual activity of the herbicides used in the Clearfield® rice system. The experiment was conducted over a period of two years and consisted of conducting a field test to be followed by two bioassays with a year of difference between their implementation. Initially an experiment was conducted in lowland area where it was planted the cultivar of rice ‘PUITA INTA CL’. Approximately one and two years thereafter, soil samples from each plot were collected at intervals of 5cm to a depth of 30cm (B factor) for the bioassay to evaluate persistence of herbicides. Factor A was composed of mixtures formulated of imazethapyr + imazapic (75 + 25g a.i. L-1), imazapyr + imazapic (525 + 175g a.i. kg-1) in two doses, imazethapyr (100g a.i. L-1) and treatment control without application. Basing on results, it was concluded that the mixtures imazethapyr + imazapic, imazapyr + imazapic and imazethapyr leached into the soil, reaching depths of up to 25cm in lowland soil. Imidazolinone herbicides used today in the irrigated rice Clearfield® system are persistent in soil, and their phytotoxic activity can be observed up to two years after application.

Interdisciplinary Research into Iron Metallurgy along the Drava River in Croatia

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Iron Production ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Drava River ◽  
Scientific Project

This volume presents the results of the scientific project ‘Production of Iron Along the Drava River During Antiquity and Middle Ages: Creation and Transfer of Knowledge, Technology and Commodities - TransFER project (IP – 2016 - 06 - 5047)’ funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. The research presented explores the evidence for and nature of iron production in the lowland area of the central Drava River basin in Croatia during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, from the turn of the 4th to the early 9th centuries. The wide-ranging methodology of the project features non-destructive archaeological site identification (surface survey and geophysics), archaeological excavation of sites with attested bloomery iron production and processing along with their associated dwelling and settlement structures, as well as experimental archaeology. The record of bloomery iron production and processing is explored via an interdisciplinary approach which examines the technology used as well as the natural resources (bog iron ores, wood and plant remains) exploited in the production process. The results of the research testify to the importance and longevity of iron production in the area of the Drava river valley.

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