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Dissertation: 17.6. Plant biodiversity in boreal wood-pastures: lmpacts of grazing and abandonment (Oldén) (University of Jyväskylä)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016
Here I studied the biodiversity of vascular plants and bryophytes in 24 boreal wood-pastures that are still grazed and in 24 wood-pastures that have been abandoned during the past decades. The grazed sites had higher species richness of vascular plants, as well as of bryophytes that grew on soil or on rocks ... Bryophyte richness on trees and decaying ......

Ashes to ashes (Keele University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. Keele University) ... Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is native throughout most of the British Isles ... According to Dr Thomas ... More than 1,000 species are associated with ash or ash woodland including 12 birds, 55 mammals, 78 vascular plants, 58 bryophytes, 68 fungi, 239 invertebrates and 548 lichen species, many of which are threatened or endangered and likely to decline in number and potentially become locally extinct ... - ends - ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4....

Air emissions risk assessment for your environmental permit (The Environment Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Mar 2016
Ammonia 1 microgram per cubic metre where lichens or bryophytes (including mosses, landworts and hornwarts) are present, 3 micrograms per cubic metre where they're not present Annual. Sulphur dioxide 10 micrograms per cubic metre where lichens or bryophytes are present, 20 micrograms per cubic metre where they're not present Annual....

UNAK is looking for PhD student to study arctic microbial ecology (University of Akureyri)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jan 2016
(Source. University of Akureyri). 28. January 2016. We seek a highly motivated, exceptionally qualified PhD student to investigate bacteria in symbiotic associations with selected lichens and bryophytes in permafrost-marginal Arctic wetlands. Palsa mires and other wetland complexes at the margins of permafrost zones are among the habitats under threat from Arctic warming ... ......

Where Science Meets Art (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jan 2016
(Source. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery). Exquisitely detailed illustrations of some of the Tasmanian Herbarium's important Antarctic botanical specimens are now on show at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) ... Professor Seppelt of is one of Australia's most accomplished botanical illustrators, and Where Science Meets Art presents several of his illustrations of bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) ... Where Science Meets Art ... Image....

Distribution of rotifers and other meiofauna in the bryophytes and...

Edit Topix 12 Jan 2016
Distribution of rotifers and other meiofauna in the bryophytes and hyporheic zone of a karst hydrosystem - an example of a nested community Tvrtko DraA3 4ina A B , Maria A poljar A , Biserka Primc A and Ivan Habdija A A Division of Zoology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. B Corresponding author ... ....

The tough life of a soil crust (CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) ...

Edit Public Technologies 10 Nov 2015
(Source. CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). Soil crusts can take hundreds of years to become fully functioning, biodiverse communities. Like cake replicas, they can be destroyed in seconds ... Their story is my story ... Natalie has reimagined a natural soil crust assemblage of twigs, pebbles and bryophytes ... Natalie has reimagined a natural soil crust assemblage of twigs, pebbles and bryophytes ... Video credit....

Another Life: Saving the angel’s nosegay, or why we protect petalwort

Edit The Irish Times 24 Oct 2015
Let us choose for the wreath a flower so small ... Eye on Nature ... Its subject is a rare – or rareish – liverwort, one of those miniature beauties of botany called bryophytes, often best admired by humans through a magnifying lens ... Indeed, of the 300-odd “rare and threatened” bryophytes of Ireland, grouped in a recent heavyweight tome (the postman had to knock), Petalophyllum ralfsii is one of those accorded “least concern” ... ....

LSU Boyd Professor Emerita Shirley Tucker Gives $2M to Plant Systematics Program (Louisiana State University) ...

Edit Public Technologies 15 Oct 2015
(Source. Louisiana State University). 10/15/15. BATON ROUGE - LSU Boyd Professor Emerita Shirley Tucker has given $2 million to the LSU Herbarium and plant systematics program in the College of Science Department of Biological Sciences ... Shirley C ... 'LSU's history of excellence in plant biology is in large part due to Dr ... We cannot thank her enough,' said F ... Her research collections also include vascular plants, bryophytes, algae and fungi....

Democratic conservation of biodiversity is must

Edit The Times of India 17 Aug 2015
PUNE. India ranks among the top ten species rich nations in the world and is known for its rich biological diversity and high endemism ... As per BSI, India has about 47, 791 species of plants comprising Virus/Bacteria (1, 071), Algae (7, 309), Fungi (14, 936), Lichens (2, 434), Bryophytes (2, 531), Pteridophytes (1, 274), Gymnosperms (77) and Angiosperms (18, 159) already identified and classified so far ... ....

400-Year-Old Arctic Plants Frozen by Glaciers Come Back From the Dead

Edit Inhabitat 16 Aug 2015
While on a recent expedition, the University of Alberta team discovered something that had a “greenish tint.” It turned out to be ancient bryophytes sprouting new growth after 400 years of dormancy!. Image via Shutterstock. The bryophytes “are flourishing under lab conditions,” BBC News reports ... Dr ... Via BBC News. Lead image of byrophytes,. 3 ... ....

Endangered Species (Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Republic of India)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Aug 2015
(Source. Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Republic of India). Press Information Bureau. Government of India. Ministry of Environment and Forests ... As per BSI, India has about 47, 791 species of plants comprising Virus/Bacteria (1, 071), Algae (7, 309), Fungi (14, 936), Lichens (2, 434), Bryophytes (2, 531), Pteridophytes (1, 274), Gymnosperms (77) and Angiosperms (18, 159) already identified and classified so far ... ***. HK ... (noodl....

BioBlitz: A Race Against Time (University of Connecticut)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Jul 2015
(Source. University of Connecticut). A group of BioBlitz 2015 participants and volunteers walk to the Hillside Environmental Education Park wetlands near North Campus. (Sheila Foran/UConn Photo). UConn's BioBlitz 2015 - a 24-hour biological treasure hunt on and around the Storrs campus - yielded nearly 1,200 species. Species count (1,181 total).. Algae 91. Birds 80. Bryophytes (such as moss) 42. Fish 6. Fungi, including lichens 147 ... Mammals 24....
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