The browsing of wild ungulates can have profound effects on the structure and composition forests. In Swiss National Park, density ungulates, including red deer (Cervus elaphus), ibex (Capra ibex), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), is exceptionally high due to strict protection absence large predators. We examined count data larch (Larix decidua), cembra pine (Pinus cembra), spruce (Picea abies), ...

Speciation mechanisms, including the role of interspecific gene flow and introgression in emergence new species, are major focus evolutionary studies. Inference taxonomic relationship between closely related species may be challenged by past hybridization events, but at same time, it provide knowledge about mechanisms responsible for maintenance integrity despite flow. Here, using nucleotide se...

This paper presents a study on automated habitat delineation and classification using very high spatial resolution (VHSR) optical remote sensing data in an alpine environment. Two overlapping study sites, which are situated in the Berchtesgaden National Park (SE Germany) represent a mountainous area, characterized by high habitat diversity. Habitat classification and delineation used to be acco...

www.thelancet.com Vol 389 April 29, 2017 1689 Nelly Mugo has happy memories of growing up in a large Kenyan family as one of eight children. They moved to Nairobi when she was a child and she recalls how an early high school interest in plant science and farming switched to medicine as she found herself thinking “what are the most important things I can know to take care of my family?” She bega...

In this work, we investigated the relationship between habitat types (HTs) and selected environmental factors in highlands at altitudes of 1800–2558 m Kamnik-Savinja (KS) Alps Slovenia. For 275 sampling sites, identified seven HTs their typical form 11 ecotones, provided field modelled data for 14 factors. HTs-environment relationships were analysed using multivariate ordination methods. additi...