Woody plants are spreading in many alpine and subalpine ecosystems and are expected to continue increasing in response to land abandonment and global warming. This encroachment threatens species diversity, and considerable efforts have been deployed to control it. In this study, we combined a lattice model and field data to investigate the efficiency of different management strategies in contro...

eryngium caucasicum trautv. (apiaceae) is a perennial herbaceous plant with about one meter height, an endemic species that has been distributed in the northern parts of iran. the plant leaves are normally used in medicine and food industries in iran.the plant has several medicinal properties including enforcing generative power, diuretic, lenitive and appetizer. in this research differents par...

We present results of the inventory spider mites Massane Forest Nature Reserve made during several field samplings from 2013 to 2017. Nineteen species have been recorded, which represents more than one third known mite fauna in France. Among them, three new were disclosed and are described: Bryobia (Bryobia) alberensis sp. nov. collected on Phyteuma spicatum Helichrysum stoechas, B. (Periplanob...

Mathias Boström,1,2,3,* Simen Å. Ellingsen,1 Iver Brevik,1 Drew F. Parsons,3,† and Bo E. Sernelius2,‡ 1Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway 2Division of Theory and Modeling, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden 3Department of Applied Mathematics, Australia...