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Total biomass and annual yield of Drosera on cultivated Sphagnum in north-west Germany [PDF]
Sphagnum paludiculture farms, where Drosera species grow spontaneously under semi-natural conditions, may provide fresh Drosera raw material for the pharmaceutical industry as a sustainable alternative to collecting Drosera from natural peatlands.
Balázs Baranyai +3 more
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Seed germination and seedling survival of Drosera rotundifolia (L.) cultivated on Sphagnum: Influence of cultivation methods and conditions, seed density, Sphagnum species and vascular plant cover [PDF]
Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia L.) is a rare bog species that is commonly collected for the European herbal market in the wild, leading to the destruction of its natural populations.
Balázs Baranyai +3 more
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The aim of this study was to reconstruct the vegetation changes, fire history and local landscape dynamics of central Croatia (the western part of south-eastern Europe) from 9800 cal yr BP to the beginning of the Common Era.
Dario Hruševar +6 more
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Reconstruction of Holocene local fires according to the macrocharcoals content from the peat deposits in the Dubches river valley [PDF]
The results of the local fires reconstruction based on the stratigraphic analysis of the peat deposit in the right-bank part of the Dubches River valley (middle taiga of the Yenisei Siberia) in the Holocene are presented.
L. V. Karpenko +3 more
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Alzheimer’s disease researchers are a pretty dispirited lot these days. In the first half of the 20th century research on this malady and an understanding of its impact on society were limited in scope and intensity. The dementia described by Alois Alzheimer was felt to refer to a relatively rare disease of middle age and different from senile dementia
Michael, Shelanski, Roger, Lefort
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South African peatlands: a review of Late Pleistocene-Holocene developments using radiocarbon dating [PDF]
South Africa has a limited number of peatlands and most of them are relatively small compared to those in cooler temperate regions in the northern hemisphere.
S. Elshehawi +4 more
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Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old selves
Whether rewetting leads to effective restoration of drained peatlands is unclear. Here the authors analyse a large number of near-natural and rewetted fen peatland sites in Europe, finding persistent differences in plant community composition and ...
J. Kreyling +40 more
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of a time-of-flight (TOF) brain positron emission tomography (PET) providing high-quality images.
Kuntai Park +4 more
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The peatland map of Europe [PDF]
Based on the ‘European Mires Book’ of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), this article provides a composite map of national datasets as the first comprehensive peatland map for the whole of Europe. We also present estimates of the extent of
F. Tanneberger +4 more
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Drainage has turned 650,000 km2 of peatlands worldwide into greenhouse gas sources. To counteract climate change, large‐scale rewetting is necessary while agricultural use of rewetted areas, termed paludiculture, is still possible.
Kerstin Haldan +4 more
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