scholarly journals Updated distribution and species composition of the amphibians and reptiles along the Lower Danube, Bulgaria

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgi Popgeorgiev ◽  
Borislav Naumov ◽  
Yurii Kornilev ◽  
Vladislav Vergilov ◽  
Miroslav Slavchev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Danube River ◽  
The Past ◽  
First Time ◽  
Published Paper

In a recently published paper (Popgeorgiev et al. 2019), we compiled for the first time published and unpublished data on localities of the herpetofaunal species observed up to ca. 10 km south of the Bulgarian Danube River. Overall, we identified 687 published records belonging to 62 cells of the 10×10 km MGRS grid. Another 1918 records with real coordinates of our unpublished data from the past ca. 13 years belong to 1269 cells of the 1×1 MGRS grid. As a result, 34 native species – 15 amphibians (4 salamanders and 11 frogs) and 19 reptiles (1 turtle, 2 tortoises, 8 lizards and 8 snakes), and one invasive turtle, have been recorded; further species findings are unlikely. This study further identifies areas that are under-sampled and species such as Pelophylax lessonae that are cryptic. Our data are especially relevant concerning the high economic incentives to change the hydrology of the Danube, which will likely negatively impact the biodiversity along the river and its surrounding.

scholarly journals History of the studying of fauna of Ponticus decapods

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Anosov ◽  
S. M. Ignatyev
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Native Species ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

The history of the decapods crustaceans study in Pontus region over the past two centuries is described by analysis based on the source literary. The description shows how researcher’s attitudes at the composition and origin of the fauna of the Black Sea have changed over the time. The contribution of non-native species in biodiversity of decapods region is estimated. The results of the modern revision of the species composition of these crustaceans are made.

scholarly journals Xylotrophic basidiomycetes of the Donetsk Botanical Garden (Donetsk city, Ukraine): taxonomic structure and eсological features

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Т.С. Булгаков ◽  
И.В. Бондаренко-Борисова
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
Woody Plants ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Taxonomic Structure ◽  
Xylotrophic Basidiomycetes ◽  
First Time

Изложены основные результаты многолетнего изучения видового состава ксилотрофных базидиомицетов насаждений Донецкого ботанического сада (г. Донецк, Украина). Всего по итогам исследований 2014 2018 гг. обнаружено 84 вида ксилотрофных базидиомицетов, из которых 30 видов отмечены впервые (по сравнению с исследованиями 1970х гг.), а повторными находками подтверждено присутствие 47 из 54 указываемых ранее видов. Все выявленные виды распределяются по 59 родам, 29 семействам и 8 порядкам двух классов отдела Basidiomycota (преимущественно к классу Agaricomycetes 83 вида, 98,8) и могут быть отнесены к четырем морфологическим группам грибов: афиллофороидным 54 вида, агарикоидным 26, тремеллоидным 3 и гастероидным 1. Наиболее многочисленными по числу семейств, родов и видов являются порядки Agaricales (15 семейств, 21 род, 30 видов), Polyporales (5 семейств, 19 родов, 26 видов) и Hymenochaetales (3 семейства, 10 родов и 14 видов), на которые в сумме приходится большая часть (83,3) всех выявленных видов. Отмечено преобладание: 1) видов, развивающихся на неразрушенной и слаборазрушенной древесине (81), над видами, развивающимися на сильно разрушенной древесине (19) 2) эвритрофных видов (70,2) над стенотрофными (29,8) 3) фитопатогенных видов (60,7) факультативных сапротрофов и факультативных паразитов над облигатными сапротрофами (39,3) 4) видов с однолетними базидиомами (81) над видами с многолетними базидиомами (19) 5) аборигенных видов (92,9) над чужеродными видами (7,1), облигатно ассоциированными с древесными интродуцентами из других регионов. The article presents the main results of a longterm study of xylotrophic macromycete species composition in the Donetsk Botanical Garden (Donetsk city, Ukraine). In total, 84 species of xylotrophic macromycetes were found during 2014 2018, among which 30 species were recorded here for the first time (comparing to the studies of 1970s), and repeated findings confirmed the presence of 47 of 54 earlier recorded species. All found xylotrophic macromycetes belong to 59 genera, 29 families and 8 orders of 2 classes of the division Basidiomycota (mainly to the class Agaricomycetes 83 species, 98.8), and could be attributed to the 4 traditional artificial groups of fungi: aphyllophoroid 54 species, agaricoid 26 species, tremelloid ( gelly fungi ) 3 species, and gasteroid fungi 1 species. The most numerous orders (by the number of families, genera and species) are Agaricales (15 families, 21 genus, 30 species), Polyporales (5 families, 19 genera, 26 species), and Hymenochaetales (3 families, 10 genera, 14 species) that account for the majority (83.3) of all identified species. The quantitative prevalence of the following groups were observed: 1) species developing on undestroyed and poorly destroyed wood (81) over the species developing on heavily destroyed wood (19) 2) eurytrophic species (70.2) over stenotrophic ones (29.8) 3) phytopathogenic species (60.7),namely facultative saprotrophs and facultative parasites, over obligate saprotrophs (39.3) 4) species that have annual basidiomes (81) over species that have perennial basidiomes (19) 5) native species (92.9) over alien species (7.1), obligately related to alien woody plants introduced from other regions.

To the species composition of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Rivnensky Nature Reserve

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
O.S. Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Mite Species ◽  
Oribatid Mites ◽  
First Time

New data was added to the oribatid species composition of the Rivnensky Nature Reserve. Overall, 62 mite species were recorded for the territory of research in this study. The species Acrogalumna longipluma, Micreremus brevipes, Licneremaeus licnophorus, Oribatella reticulata, and Porobelba spinosa were not previously listed for the Western Polissia. Of the 60 species of Lower Oribatida mites that have been recorded by other authors in that area, only 18 are found again in the Rivnensky Nature Reserve, indicating that our results are intermediate. A representative of the genus Mainothrus Choi, 1996 (Mainothrus badius (Berlese, 1905)) is found in Ukraine for the first time.

Liverworts of the Uzon Volcano caldera (Kronotsky Nature Reserve, Kamchatka)

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 386-393
Author(s):  
A. D. Potemkin ◽  
E. Yu. Kuzmina ◽  
T. I. Koroteeva (Nyushko)
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Uzon Caldera ◽  
Red Data Book ◽  
Natural Feature ◽  
Data Book ◽  
First Time ◽  
Kronotsky Nature Reserve

Species composition of liverworts of unique natural feature of Kamchatka — Uzon Volcano caldera is listed. It includes 38 species. 29 of them are found for the first time for the Uzon caldera. Marsupella funckii, Nardia assamica, N. unispiralis included in Red Data Book of Kamchatka (2007).

scholarly journals Flexibility of joint production in mixed fisheries and implications for management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Briton ◽  
Olivier Thébaud ◽  
Claire Macher ◽  
Caleb Gardner ◽  
Lorne Richard Little
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Joint Production ◽  
Total Allowable Catch ◽  
Individual Transferable Quotas ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Commercial Species ◽  
Management Recommendations ◽  
Production Problems

Abstract Over the past decade, efforts have been made to factor technical interactions into management recommendations for mixed fisheries. Yet, the dynamics underlying joint production in mixed fisheries are generally poorly captured in operational mixed fisheries models supporting total allowable catch advice. Using an integrated ecological–economic simulation model, we explore the extent to which fishers are likely to alter the species composition of their landings in a mixed fishery managed with individual transferable quotas, the Australian Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery. Our simulations capture three different types of joint production problems, highlighting the flexibility that exists in terms of achievable catch compositions when quota markets provide the economic incentives to adapt fishing practices to quota availability. These results highlight the importance of capturing the drivers of fishing choices when advising TAC decisions in mixed fisheries. We also identify a hierarchy of species in this fishery, with harvest targets set for primary commercial species determining most of its socio-economic performance.

scholarly journals Temporal Stability and Biodiversity of Two Complex Antilisterial Cheese-Ripening Microbial Consortia

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 4012-4018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Maoz ◽  
Ralf Mayr ◽  
Siegfried Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Microbial Consortia ◽  
Cheese Ripening ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACT The temporal stability and diversity of bacterial species composition as well as the antilisterial potential of two different, complex, and undefined microbial consortia from red-smear soft cheeses were investigated. Samples were collected twice, at 6-month intervals, from each of two food producers, and a total of 400 bacterial isolates were identified by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and 16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Coryneform bacteria represented the majority of the isolates, with certain species being predominant. In addition, Marinolactobacillus psychrotolerans, Halomonas venusta, Halomonas variabilis, Halomonas sp. (106 to 107 CFU per g of smear), and an unknown, gram-positive bacterium (107 to 108 CFU per g of smear) are described for the first time in such a consortium. The species composition of one consortium was quite stable over 6 months, but the other consortium revealed less diversity of coryneform species as well as less stability. While the first consortium had a stable, extraordinarily high antilisterial potential in situ, the antilisterial activity of the second consortium was lower and decreased with time. The cause for the antilisterial activity of the two consortia remained unknown but is not due to the secretion of soluble, inhibitory substances by the individual components of the consortium. Our data indicate that the stability over time and a potential antilisterial activity are individual characteristics of the ripening consortia which can be monitored and used for safe food production without artificial preservatives.

FC14-01 - Internal losses and the creation of “Nowhere land”: psychodynamic themes of adults with ADHD discovered during drama-therapy

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1893-1893
Author(s):  
I. Manor ◽  
G. Yazpan
Keyword(s):  
Drama Therapy ◽  
Transitional Space ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chronic Disorder ◽  
Pharmacological Aspect ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Socioeconomic Strata ◽  
The Creation ◽  
First Time

ADHD is a well-known, chronic disorder that persists in adulthood. During the past 20 years its existence in adults is becoming clearer, yet its dynamic aspects are rarely discussed. The treatment of adults is vital, as much as that of children; however the literature discussing it, especially its non-pharmacological aspect, is scarce.We describe the results of our treatment with drama-therapy of two groups of adults with ADHD. These groups included 11 adults (from both groups), men and women, from most socioeconomic strata, aged ≥ 60 yrs., who were diagnosed as suffering from ADHD and were treated for it for the first time in their life. Drama-therapy was selected as we believed it to be a useful method with associative, distracted ADHD patients, since it enabled the use of transitional space through non-verbal images and acts.This presentation discusses the basic themes with which patients began therapy. Interestingly, all patients, however different, shared the same themes that were built on self doubt and the pre-presumption of disappointment. The impairment related to ADHD, that was felt, but not understood, led to a strong experience of heavy losses, which we tried to define separately: of a clear path, of control, of the inner perception of borders and of the loss of an integrative inner self. All these losses were accumulated in the transitional space in a place we named “Nowhere land”.We would like to present these themes of losses and of becoming lost and to discuss their meaning.

BRAZILIAN BISHOP OUTLINES "A PASTORAL STRATEGY IN TIMES OF REVOLUTION"

Exchange ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Keyword(s):  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
First Time

AbstractMons. Antonio Batista Fragoso has been bishop of Crateus in Northeast Brazil for the past ten years. Eighty percent of the 360,000 people in his diocese are impoverished peasants who engage in rudimentary farming. At least half of the peasants are landless. It is among these people that Bishop Fragoso has encouraged the formation of small grassroots Christian communities that are responsible for a profound change in the patterns of Christian living in his diocese. The following is LP's translation of excerpts from a talk that Bishop Fragoso gave to his fellow bishops and priests in Managua in October, 1980. This is the first time it has appeared in English. (Editor Latinamerica Press)

scholarly journals Historical discarding in Mediterranean fisheries: a fishers' perception

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (9) ◽  
pp. 2600-2608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Damalas ◽  
Christos D. Maravelias ◽  
Giacomo C. Osio ◽  
Francesc Maynou ◽  
Mario Sbrana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Sampling Protocol ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regulatory Constraints ◽  
Fishing Strategies ◽  
Commercially Important ◽  
Trawl Fisheries ◽  
Important Fish

Abstract Discarding of commercially important fish species in the bottom trawl fisheries in the northern Mediterranean Sea was investigated by soliciting the long-term recollections of fishers engaged or formerly engaged in such fisheries. The main aim of our investigation was to describe the prevalence of discarding and its evolution over the past 70 years using information gathered through individual questionnaire-based interviews with fishers from ports in Spain, Italy, and Greece, following a standardized sampling protocol. Although it proved impossible to derive absolute estimates of the volume of discarded catches over the period investigated, we conclude that over the past 70 years, discarding as a practice has gradually increased in the northern Mediterranean trawl fisheries and has been accompanied by a shift in the species composition of the discarded catch. While discarding can occur for a number of reasons, our investigations indicate that discarding in the past was mostly driven by market demand, but recent legal and regulatory constraints have led to changes in fishing strategies and became a significant reason for discards.

Economic Actors' Lobbying Influence on the Prospects for War and Peace

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government

AbstractPolitical scientists and economists have long been interested in the role of special interests in the policymaking process. In the past few years, a series of important new books have argued forcefully that the lobbying activities of economic actors have an important influence on the prospects for war and peace. All of these analyses claim that whether economic actors enhance or decrease the likelihood of conflict ultimately depends on the domestic political balance between economic actors who have a strong vested interest in pushing for peace versus those that do not. I advance two contrary arguments. At least among the advanced states, I posit there are no longer any economic actors who will be favorable toward war and who will lobby the government with this preference. All of the identified mechanisms that previously contributed to such lobbying in these states have been swept away with the end of colonialism and the rise of economic globalization. In particular, I show that the current structure of the global economy now makes it feasible for foreign direct investment to serve as an effective substitute for conquest in a way that was not possible in previous eras. My second argument concerns those economic actors in advanced states with a preference for peace. I posit that it has become unnecessary for them to directly lobby the government to avoid war on economic grounds because economic globalization—the accumulation of decisions by economic actors throughout the globe—now has sufficiently clear economic incentives for leaders.

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