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Effects of Red-Backed Salamanders on Ecosystem Functions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Ecosystems provide a vast array of services for human societies, but understanding how various organisms contribute to the functions that maintain these services remains an important ecological challenge.
Babbitt, Kimberly J., Hocking, Daniel J.
core   +3 more sources

What does coexistence mean? Insight from place‐based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The recovery of large carnivores in Europe raises issues related to sharing landscape with humans. Beyond technical solutions, it is widely recognized that social factors also contribute to shaping coexistence. In this context, scholars increasingly stress the need to adopt place‐based approaches by analysing how humans and wildlife interact ...
Alice Ouvrier   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological, Typological Properties and Photosynthetic Activity (FAPAR) of Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Ecosystems in Croatia

open access: yesSouth-East European Forestry, 2017
Background and purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the structural and functional properties of common beech forest ecosystems in Croatia across a wide macro-climatic gradient (Mediterranean, Alpine and Continental) and to gain insight into ...
Ivan Pilaš   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Location and Landscape in Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis and F. Scott Fitzgerald [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Well into the twentieth century, western American literature was still dismissed as regional or was boxed in by the genre expectations of pulp Westerns.
Sumner, David T.
core   +1 more source

Incidence of beech bark disease resistance in the eastern Acadian forest of North America

open access: yesThe Forestry Chronicle, 2013
Beech bark disease (BBD) is a fatal affliction of American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) in North America. Although natural resistance to BBD has been observed, reports vary with respect to incidence of resistance, with 1% being most commonly acknowledged.
Anthony R. Taylor   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Impact of climate anomalies on the functionality of beech trees in a mixed forest in the Italian south-eastern Alps

open access: yes, 2020
The increased frequency and severity of extremes climatic events determined by the current and predicted scenarios of global climate changes have a large potential impact on the functionality of forest ecosystems and on their capacity of providing ...
Luca Belelli Marchesini   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does a decision support tool designed to depict West Nile virus risk explain variation in ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus use of managed forests?

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Infectious diseases are commonly cited as significant contributors to wildlife population declines. It is, therefore, important to investigate the extent to which tools designed to mitigate the effects of infectious diseases explain wildlife responses to habitat management.
Jacob Goldman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Termo-Mekanik Yoğunlaştırma ve Isıl İşlemin Doğu Kayını (Fagus Orientalis L.) Odununun Bazı Fiziksel Özelliklerine Etkisi

open access: yesDüzce Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 2015
Çalışmada, Doğu kayını (Fagus orientalis L.) odununun bazı fiziksel özelliklerine termo-mekanik (TM) yoğunlaştırma ve ısıl işlemin etkisi belirlenmiştir.
Hüseyin PELİT, Abdullah SÖNMEZ
doaj   +2 more sources

Genome-wide association study identifies a major gene for beech bark disease resistance in American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.)

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2017
Background The American Beech tree (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.), native to eastern North America, is ecologically important and provides high quality wood products.
Irina Ćalić   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Benefit or ecological trap? Monitoring the effects of small clear‐cuts on capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and its mammalian predators

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The shift to ‘close to nature forestry' as the dominating forestry regime in western‐European forests has resulted in increasing timber volume and denser forests with negative effects on photophilic species. Hence, there is an increasing focus on active habitat management measures to support these species.
Maria Kochs   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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