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Plant Ecology and Evolution: contribution to biodiversity conservation Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
With its focus on wild plants and their habitats, Plant Ecol-ogy and Evolution is a journal dealing with all areas of plant biology relating to ecology, evolution and systematics of all groups of plants (in the traditional sense, including algae, cyanobacteria, fungi, myxomycetes). It includes topical mat-ters such as biodiversity, phylogenetic reconstruction, con-servation and global change. Plant Ecology and Evolutionoccupies its own niche in ...
The Human Ecology of the Danube Delta Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We present a case of environmental transformation, in the Romanian Danube Delta, driven by the interplay of state power, technological intervention, geomorphological processes, and local practices. Through the presentation of a cartographic archive (1856–2017), together with participant observation and historical research, we detail the various stages of transformation in the deltaic environment and show the relative interplay of driving ...
Understanding vector and human ecology for improving malaria vector control Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Ecology and Evolution of Fishes of the Southern Ocean – A multidimensional molecular approach KU Leuven
The Antarctic and the surrounding Southern Ocean contain delicate and unique ecosystems, characterised by a cold climate, a seasonal photoperiod, remote location and a endemic fauna. Compared to other oceans, the Southern Ocean exhibits low species richness, but despite this, the Southern Ocean is still characterized as an evolutionary hotspot. The adaptive radiation of the notothenioids, the predominant clade of fishes in the Southern Ocean ...
Incidence and ecology of rust disease (Hemileia vastatrix) on wild Coffea arabica in moist Ethiopian mountain forests KU Leuven
Coffea arabica L. (Family Rubiaceae) remains as a backbone of Ethiopian economy and plays an important and significant role in the country's economy and employment opportunity and accounted for 5 and 25 %, respectively. Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea arabica has great coffee genetic diversity in Southwestern part of the country in the Afromontane forests, which will be a potential for identifying wild Coffea arabica resistant to Coffee leaf ...
Similar ecology, different morphology: Three new species of oral-mollusc shellers from Lake Edward KU Leuven
Lake Edward, East Africa, harbours a largely understudied assemblage of haplochromine cichlids that displays a range of adaptions to various specialised trophic niches. In this system, we discovered specimens of Haplochromis with morphologies similar to those of oral-mollusc shellers from Lake Victoria. These morphologies are characterised by short oral jaws with stout teeth that are used either to crush molluscs or to grab the soft bodies of ...
Diversity, dynamics and reproduction in a community of small mammals in Upper Guinea, with emphasis on pygmy mice ecology Universiteit Antwerpen
As part of a large survey on reservoirs of Lassa fever in Guinea, three villages were investigated in high endemic zone, close to Sierra Leone border. Biodiversity of the small mammal community is presented in this study through a standardized trapping in houses, cultivations and forest. Identification of the small mammals was based on morphology and by molecular technique for sibling species. Of the 1123 specimens collected in 20032005, we ...
Impact of the fish Garra on the ecology of reservoirs and the occurrence of Microcystis blooms in semi-arid tropical highlands: an experimental assessment using enclosures KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
1. Many man-made reservoirs in the semi-arid highlands of Northern Ethiopia (Tigray) are characterised by the occurrence of intensive blooms of cyanobacteria and a dominance of small riverine fishes belonging to the genus Garra. 2. We carried out enclosure experiments to test for the effect of these small fish on abiotic characteristics, phytoplankton biomass and zooplankton community structure in the pelagic of two reservoirs (Gereb Awso and ...
The nominal group technique in ecology & conservation: Application and challenges Universiteit Hasselt
The nominal group technique (NGT) is a qualitative method to elicit judgement from stakeholders. This paper reviews its application in the field of ecology and conservation. We aim to identify patterns in methodological variants, topics covered, scope, advantages and limitations of the technique. Although still not widely used, NGT has been used in ecology and conservation to achieve four main goals: to support biodiversity management, to ...