De politieke geschiedenis van Nederland en België zoals bestudeerd in de BMGN had verschillende gezichten. Aanvankelijk domineerde een zekere traditionele geschiedschrijving over beide landen, die als steeds dunner wordende rode draad door inhoud afgelopen vijftig jaar loopt. Vanaf het midden jaren tachtig verschoof nadruk naar Nederlandse politiek, ontwikkelde zich tot platform voor vernieuwin...

Starting 16000 years ago, the Neolithic lifestyle known as Jomon culture spread across Japanese archipelago. Although extensively studied by archaeology and physical anthropology, little is about genetic characteristics of people. Here, we report entire mitogenome partial nuclear genome skeletal remains from initial period that were excavated Higashimyo shell midden site at Saga City, Kyushu Is...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine response patterns and mechanisms of soil respiration to precipitation increases in subtropical regions. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Field plots in three typical forests [i.e. pine forest (PF), broadleaf forest (BF), and pine and broadleaf mixed forest (MF)] in subtropical China were exposed under either Double Precipitation (DP) treatment o...

Ancestral semi-natural meadows, locally called “Lameiros”, are an essential element of the mountain landscapes in Northern Portugal. These meadows are frequently located in areas of high water availability, loamy soils and over 700-800m hight. In association with these meadows can be found traditional irrigation systems, in which the water is applied all year around, to assure the crop water re...

In recent years, the importance of trace metal mobile fractions rather than total contents in environmental matrices is increasing in risk assessment evaluation of contaminated sites. In this study different leaching/extraction tests, aimed at the measurements of mobile fractions of trace metals and standardized at European Committee for Standardization (CEN) for the characterization of waste, ...