Seminal works on vascular plants in Pennsylvania include the Flora of Pennsylvania (Porter 1903), Wild Flowers of Western Pennsylvania and the Upper Ohio Basin (Jennings and Avinoff 1953), and Atlas of the Flora of Pennsylvania (Wherry et al. 1979). Given the age of Porter's work and the fact that Jennings and Avinoff's publication included only western Pennsylvania, the major reference work on...

BACKGROUND Countries following the traditional Mediterranean Diet, particularly Southern European countries, have lower prostate cancer incidence and mortality compared to other European regions. The beneficial effect has been attributed to a specific eating pattern. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this review is to examine the evidence to date on the effects of adherence to a Mediterranean Diet on ...

Fish products are widely consumed in different European countries for their nutritional composition, such as high protein content, omega-3 fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, and low carbohydrate content. Therefore, fishing provides important income commercial opportunities Mediterranean coastal countries. As the increased consumption of fish is leading to negative ecological impacts on marine flo...

In France, REPHY (Observation and Surveillance Network for Phytoplankton Hydrology in coastal waters) REPHYTOX (Monitoring Phycotoxins marine organisms) have been contributing to long-term time series on ocean health more than 30 years. The aim of this paper is describe these networks highlight their key results. Over the last 20 years, phytoplankton flora analysis French coasts from Channel Me...

Abstract Here, we explore the importance of export productivity versus anoxia in formation sedimentary layers with enhanced total organic carbon (TOC) content. We use geochemical, sedimentological and micropaleontological records from two SW Sicily outcropping successions, Lido Rossello (LR) Punta di Maiata (PM), over three Early Pliocene precession‐forced climate cycles (4.7–4.6 million years ...

This work aims to study cultivable actinobacterial isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Artemisia herba-alba Asso; an important component Mediterranean dry steppe flora. The isolates functional attributes with respect antifungal, in vitro growth-promotion properties and enzymatic capacities, were studied. A total eleven strains identified as Streptomyces species by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. po...

Geotourism is a form of nature-oriented tourism devoted to the knowledge and understanding landscape forms geological processes; flora fauna cultural, historical human heritage. The great morphological variability Avellino Province, also called Irpinia, in southern Italy makes this province particular interest for geotourists. Irpinia has unique set geosites, sites cultural interest, archaeolog...