Search results for "lowland"

Diversity and endemism of woody plant species in the Equatorial Pacific seasonally dry forests

2009

The biodiversity hotspot of the Equatorial Pacific region in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru comprises the most extensive seasonally dry forest formations west of the Andes. Based on a recently assembled checklist of the woody plants occurring in this region, we analysed their geographical and altitudinal distribution patterns. The montane seasonally dry forest region (at an altitude between 1,000 and 1,100 m, and the smallest in terms of area) was outstanding in terms of total species richness and number of endemics. The extensive seasonally dry forest formations in the Ecuadorean and Peruvian lowlands and hills (i.e., forests below 500 m altitude) were comparatively much more specie…

The genome sequencing of an albino Western lowland gorilla reveals inbreeding in the wild

2013

This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.-- et al.

Materiały do poznania fauny Kampinoskiego Parku Narodowego: Apionidae i Nanophyidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

2013

New localities of 35 species of Apionidae and 2 species of Nanophyidae in the Kampinos National Park are presented, among them respectively 26 and 2 species new for the studied area. Regarding Apionidae, 8 of 9 species recorded from the Kampinos National Park in literature, were confirmed to occur there. Perapion oblongum (GYLL.) has been recorded from the Mazovian Lowland for the first time

Nowe dla Niziny Mazowieckiej i rzadkie gatunki ryjkowcowatych (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) z Kampinoskiego Parku Narodowego

2013

New data on the occurrence of 16 weevil species from the Kampinos National Park are presented, of which 7 species are recorded from the Mazovia Lowland for the first time. Among them two, Otiorhynchus repletus BOHEMAN and Larinus sturnus (SCHALLER) figure in the "Polish Red List".

O utworzeniu Parku Narodowego "Puszcza Śląska"

2016

National Park is in Рolish law one of the most important protection form that is dedicated to areas sustained in natural conditions, having fairly untouched vegetation and biodiversity. Despite that the Silesian Forest-Nature District has a unique areas in terms of nature values as well as cultural and biodiversity heritage, no national parks were established here until now. In the proposed national park of Silesian Forest 50 legally protected plant species were noted, in this 16 listed as threatened in Polish Red Data Book. More than 130 plant species were found rare within the area. Approximately 250 legally protected animal species are found within park borders that are permanent residen…

The search for reference conditions for stream vegetation in northern Europe

2008

Summary 1. The European Water Framework Directive provides a framework for improving the ecological quality of stream ecosystems, with deviation from reference used as a measure of ecological status. 2. Here we examine the possibility of using less impacted stream sites from Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to establish a Danish reference network for macrophyte assemblages, and as a guiding image for identification of possible references sites within Denmark. Both approaches were evaluated using historical Danish records. 3. Four different macrophyte assemblages were identified for mid-sized streams in the Central and Eastern Lowland ecoregions. Macrophyte assemblages could not be delineated us…

The agency of non-human entity in the recent anthropology of the Indigenous Lowland South America

2015

In the last twenty years, agency has entered the field of anthropological studies of Lowland South America Indigenous Peoples as a term and a topic of concern. Ethnographical and theoretical treatment of this notion has intertwined here with the revisiting of the concept of animism, Viveiros de Castro’s statements about “amerindian perspectivism” and a broader “ontological turn” in research orientation. In the paper I discuss this trend, focusing on how different notions of agency are used to talk about topics as shamanism and ontological status of artifacts as well as, more generally, of other non-human categories of beings. I pay attention too to dissonances and consonances in this field …

The place of livestock in human-nonhuman relationship among the Wayuu

2020

In the ethnology of indigenous LSA, the Wayuu case has always been considered a peculiar one. Among the main features which make difficult to insert it in the comparative debate on indigenous models of sociality and cosmology in this area, one can mention: pristine introduction of cattle raising; maintenance of political semi-autonomy till very recent times; development, already in the colonial period, of forms of social hierarchy based on ownership of livestock and other material goods; articulation of these forms with a system of matrilineal descent groups; interplay among the inclusive character of the descendants of mixed unions and the shifting of the traits selected for marking ethnic…

Tra alterità e domesticazione: il mare tra i Wayuu

2011

Walory ekoturystyczne Przesieki Śląskiej w okolicach dawnego (zapomnianego) miasta Schwirz (woj. opolskie, Polska)

2019

The present work outlines the natural, historical and cultural values of the selected fragment of Silesian Przesieka located in the southern part of a locality called Miejsce (the former town of Schwirz) (Świerczów municipality, Namysłów сounty, Opole Province, Poland). Here, the natural values are also mixed with unique historical, cultural and landscape values. The authors reconstruct the original riverbed of the Stobrawa River using a Digital Elevation Model. They describe border castles and their location by addressing the repeated records stating that these constitute earlier rudiments of a castle belonging to the same duchy. They describe the history of the locality Miejsce in its cur…