Ecological sites are the basic entity used in rangeland health assessment. This study evaluates the synergistic use of multiand hyper-spectral satellite imagery for sub-pixel classification of ecological sites in semiarid rangelands. Hyperion and Landsat enhanced thematic mapper (ETM) data are included in a two-step procedure to mapping ecological sites in Patagonian rangelands of Argentina. Fi...

It is unclear whether Indo-European languages in Europe spread from the Pontic steppes in the late Neolithic, or from Anatolia in the Early Neolithic. Under the former hypothesis, people of the Globular Amphorae culture (GAC) would be descended from Eastern ancestors, likely representing the Yamnaya culture. However, nuclear (six individuals typed for 597 573 SNPs) and mitochondrial (11 complet...

The present study focuses on the mosaic-like occurrences of patches steppes and fore-steppes in Pannonian forest-steppe zone. We current vegetation, which is maintained including by human landscape use, i.e., grazing mowing. area complex for this reason it shows changes differences vegetation more diversely. wanted to answer questions: Do sand forest-steppes occur Ipoly Valley what location? Wh...

Nostoc flagelliforme, a filamentous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, is widely distributed in arid steppes of the west and northwestern parts of China. However, as a food delicacy this species has been overexploited from 1970 to 2000. Moreover, overgrazing, land reclamation and the removal of medicinal herbs have caused severely reduced vegetation coverage there. In this communication, a badly d...

Abstract This special issue is a collection of articles about the conservation, restoration and biodiversity Palaearctic grasslands was initiated by Eurasian Dry Grassland Group at 15th Conference (EDGC), held Graz, Austria in 2019. The papers this cover range grassland habitats from montane dry to lowland sandy grasslands, feathergrass steppes meadow steppes, focus on values, conservation issu...

Loxodontomys micropus (Waterhouse, 1837) is a cricetid commonly called the southern pericote. A moderately large, heavy-bodied rodent, it is 1 of the 2 species in the genus Loxodontomys. This cricetid occurs in southern Chile and southwestern Argentina. It prefers humid, dense grasslands, meadows, shrubby steppes, and mixed or open-canopied Nothofagus forests. L. micropus is categorized as of l...

Milk represents the essential source of nourishment of mammals during the neonatal period. Mare’s milk represents the essential source of nourishment of foals during the first months of life. Around 30 million people consume mare milk regularly throughout the world. In areas of central Asia steppes: Turks, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrygyz, Mongols, Yakuts and Uzbeks a lactic-alcoholic beverage called...

Nitrous oxide emissions during freeze/thaw periods contribute significantly to annual soil N2O emissions budgets in middle- and high-latitude areas; however, the freeze/thaw-related N2O emissions from waterlogged soils have hardly been studied in the Hulunber Grassland, Inner Mongolia. For this study, the effects of changes in land use/cover types on N2O emissions during freeze-thaw cycles were...