A study was conducted during 2013-2015 in 13 Tunisian reservoirs. A total of six fish species belonging to three families were collected using multi-mesh gill nets (EN 14575 amended) for the first time. Fish sampling was made in the most important Tunisian reservoirs for analysis of fish...

This study revised taxonomically some previously misidentified Aristolochia species in Vietnam. As a conclusion, these specimens were previously misidentified as A. heterophylla, A. indica, A. westlandii and A. zollingeriana, are here corrected to A. longgangensis, A. cambodiana, A. fangchi and A....

The flora were investigated and analyzed in Pingtan Island, Fujian Province. According to primarily statistics, there are 541 species of seed plants belonging to 369 genera of 127 families, including 330 species of native plants in 234 genera of 91 families and 211 species of exotic plants in 160...

The studies of flora in 5 towns in the southern Cis-Urals within the Republic of Bashkortostan (Sterlitamak, Salavat, Ishimbay, Meleuz, Kumertau) were conducted in 2008-2015 within their administrative boundaries. The towns possess a developed infrastructure and are characterized by an intense...

Perceptions of stakeholders can influence who is included and excluded from environmental policy-making processes. Repertory grid technique is a qualitative method that captures how a person differentiates objects according to dimensions of similarity. Used in a qualitative way, repertory grids...

Alien invasive species can affect large areas, often with wide-ranging impacts on ecosystem structure, function, and services. Prunus serotina is a widespread invader of European temperate forests, where it tends to form homogeneous stands and limits recruitment of indigenous trees. We hypothesized ...

Juglans L. (walnuts and butternuts) is an economically and ecologically important genus in the family Juglandaceae. All Juglans are important nut and timber trees. Juglans regia (Common walnut), J. sigillata (Iron walnut), J. cathayensis (Chinese walnut), J. hopeiensis (Ma walnut), and J....

The aim of this study was to quantify the genetic variances among provenances and progenies of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis to increase the wood productivity in northwestern of Paraná State, Brazil. The trial was established with seed from Guatemala and Honduras, in a randomized complete block...

As habitat loss and fragmentation place growing pressure on endangered nonhuman primate populations, researchers find increasing evidence for novel responses in behavior. In western Uganda between the Budongo and Bugoma Forests, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) inhabit a mosaic...

The present work consisted of presenting some of the main results about the use of taper models in different native and exotic species, except for pinus and Eucalyptus, in the different regions of Brazil. Many works were carried out, mainly, in the South, North, Southeast and Center-West....