Les Produits Forestiers Non Ligneux d’origine végétale à usage aphrodisiaque sont surexploités pour la commercialisation au Bénin. L’objectif de cette étude est d’évaluer disponibilité et l’abondance des plantes aphrodisiaques dans les jardins case forêt classée l’Ouémé-Boukou Centre-Bénin. La méthodologie utilisée a consisté l’installation 142 relevés d’inventaire carrés 400 m2 l’intérieur des...

Aims : To link the Braun-Blanquet units of EuroVegChecklist (EVC) with upper levels International Vegetation Classification (IVC), and to propose a division level classification for Europe. Study area Methods We established tabular linkage between EVC classes IVC formations identified mismatches these two levels. then proposed organize classes. Results organized into 21 30 divisions. flagged th...

Theatrical metaphors abound within the literature on nurse education and perhaps it is no accident that they do so. However much of the nursing literature implies that clinical learning involves the student in developing performance skills, and infers that this type of learning is inferior and superficial. This paper emerges from a discussion between the authors: a nurse educator, and an educat...

To evaluate the role of deer in regulating the abundance of the deer tick (Ixodes dammini) we attempted to treat with acaricide, but eventually removed, about 70 percent of deer from Great Island, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Deer were captured in box traps, a corral, an entanglement net, and with rifle-fired tranquilizer. Failure of these attempts, combined with ineffective acaricides, led us to d...

Species distribution models (SDMs) are a general suite of models that relate the frequency of species occurrences (presence only or presence/absence) to sets of environmental variables. These relationships can then be used to generate predictions of the geographic areas where the species are expected to occur, making SDMs powerful and widely used tools in conservation biology, biogeography and ...

The aim of this study was to assess the influence of trout farm effluents on water quality parameters in the Dohezar Stream. In this study two trout farms and 7 stations were selected and physiochemical of water, including air and water temperatures, dissolved oxygen concentration (DO), pH, electrical conductivity (EC), water flow and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) were measured every 30 days ...