background: traditionally, morphological features of rhipicephalus (boophilus) annulatus from closely-related ticks have been considered for their identification and differentiation. however, it is difficult and requires expertise in order to accurately identify and differentiate engorged female ticks and some developmental stages such as larva and nymph from other similar ticks. hence, molecul...

No information currently exists on the floristic structure and richness of Artemisia alba scrubs in Romania their regional/local environmental drivers. We aimed to fill these knowledge gaps by also considering physiognomically similar communities from Hungary, Serbia Bulgaria. A total 89 phytosociological relevés, including 43 performed Romania, were analysed through clustering, constrained ord...