The success of European plant species as aliens worldwide is thought to reflect their association with human-disturbed environments. However, an explicit test including all human-made, seminatural and natural habitat types of Europe, and their contributions as donor habitats of naturalized species to the rest of the globe, has been missing. Here we combine two databases, the European Vegetation...

Worldwide, urbanisation has resulted in extensive replacement of natural habitats with man-made habitats. In Sydney Harbour, Australia, approximately half of the natural foreshore has been replaced by seawalls. Many of these have wharves built over part of their length, which could affect intertidal assemblages on seawalls beneath the wharves. This was tested by sampling and comparing assemblag...

Extensive artificial waterways have replaced natural wetlands and created new estuarine habitats on the southernQueensland coast, Australia. Economically important fish species found in adjacent natural wetlands of mangrove, saltmarsh and seagrass also occur in the artificial waterways. Stable isotope analyses (dC, dN)were used to test whether the relative importance of basal sources of energy ...

-To preserve and recover evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) of anadromous salmonids Oncorhynchus spp. in the Pacific Northwest, long-term and short-term ecological processes that create and maintain freshwater habitats must be restored and protected. Aquatic ecosystems throughout the region are dynamic in space and time, and lack of consideration of their dynamic aspects has limited the ef...

we report observations on the natural history of lizards in the gando protected area, within the sistan and baluchestan province, iran. the identity of the lizards is recorded, along with remarks on some meristic characteristics. brief descriptions of their habitats are also given with a distribution map. lizards (n = 132) were collected and photographed in 2008-09. twelve species belonging to ...

background & aim: in the present research, we investigated phytochemical characteristics of two important species of verbascum genus. enormous reconnaissance and field surveys were conducted to identify the most important natural habitats of verbascum species in kohgiluyeh va buyerahmad province, southern iran. experimental: the aerial parts of verbascum songaricum and v.  cheirantifolium w...