Riparian zones are fragile, dynamic, and complex habitats, especially insular ones. We developed an approach relating 71 environmental variables from the rivers of Ilhabela (Brazil) through a rapid assessment protocol adapted to their adjacent environments. The prominent disturbances were related changes in physical structure riparian ecotone. Height type vegetation, stability riverbanks, sedim...

This study aims to determine public flats preferences of low-income household respondents using conjoint analysis, so that it can be identified the relative importance attributes and utilities’s value attribute levels affect respondent’s choice. Survey was conducted on 35 squatter’s who live in Banjir Kanal Timur Semarang Riverbanks 86 already dwelled Kudu Pondok Boro rental provided by City Go...

Over 3,300 unscreened agricultural water diversion pipes line the levees and riverbanks of the Sacramento River (California) watershed, where the threatened Southern Distinct Population Segment of green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, spawn. The number of sturgeon drawn into (entrained) and killed by these pipes is greatly unknown. We examined avoidance behaviors and entrainment susceptibility...

Tropical forests are the only forest biome to have experienced increased rates of forest loss during the past decade because of global demands for food and biofuels. The implications of such extensive forest clearing on the dynamics of tropical river systems remain relatively unknown, despite significant progress in our understanding of the role of trees in riverbank stability. Here, we documen...

Myricaria laxiflora is distributed along the riverbanks of the Yangtze River valley. The Three Gorges Dam has dramatically changed the habitat of M. laxiflora, which has evolved to develop increased resistance to flooding stress. In order to elucidate the relationship between plant endophytic fungi and flooding stress, we isolated and taxonomically characterized the endophytic fungi of M. laxif...

Airflow along rivers might provide a key mechanism for ventilation in cities: important for air quality and thermal comfort. Airflow varies in space and time in the vicinity of rivers. Consequently, there is limited utility in point measurements. Ground-based remote sensing offers the opportunity to study 3D airflow in locations which are difficult to observe with conventional approaches. For t...

The aim of the natural investigations carried out in two archaeological sites in the SE Poland was to determine their TL age (15 samples) and characterize the vegetation cover with the use of pollen analysis (10 samples) of loess and loess-like deposits sampled in the sites and their close environs. Micromorphological features of loess were examined in one of the sites. The research was carried...

Even highly mutually beneficial microbial-plant interactions, such as mycorrhizal- and rhizobial-plant exchanges, involve selfishness, cheating and power-struggles between the partners, which depending on prevailing selective pressures, lead to a continuum of interactions from antagonistic to mutualistic. Using manipulated grass-endophyte combinations in a five year common garden experiment, we...