Mangrove communities provide habitat for many terrestrial and aquatic species and act as nurseries and breeding grounds for fish, crustaceans, and birds. They also protect coastal areas from erosion and storm events. However, globally 35% of mangrove habitat has been degraded or destroyed, making mangroves one of the most endangered ecosystems on earth. Thus, there is a demand for methods to re...

We studied population extinction of the locally abundant fen plant Swertia perennis in Switzerland and used up to 127-year old herbarium records to relocate 63 sites that had once hosted this species. We recorded current site characteristics and related them to the absence or abundance of populations. Fifty-four sites (86%) were still traditionally used (extensively mown or grazed). Fifteen pop...

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Zusammenfassung Im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit sollte untersucht werden, warum der Baumstreifen in ausgewachsenen Elstar-Anlagen wesentlich weniger Aufwuchs aufweist als bei anderen Apfelsorten auf gleichen Unterlage am Standort. Daher wurde die Vegetation von ‘Elstar’-Anlagen im Vergleich zu drei 150 Vegetationsaufnahmen an Terminen einjährigen Untersuchungen Campus Klein-Altendorf bonitiert. Da...

Thrombocytopenia an abnormal term used to denote abnormal decreases or drop in platelets numbers. Thrombocytopenia is a common problem experience by cancer patients, which usually results from the use of conventional chemotherapy and at times is a dose limiting factor for chemotherapy administration. The incidence of thrombocytopenia among solid cancer patients is rather low i.e., ranging betwe...

Background Gomphrena perennis (Gpe) and G. pulchella (Gpu) are perennial glyphosate-tolerant amaranthaceous weeds of central northern Argentina where glyphosate-resistant soybeans grown with no-till. The study leaves morphoanatomy is important to understand environmental adaptation could be used explain herbicide absorption. Leaf surfaces species were previously described for phylogenetic studi...

We examined the effects of size and spatial isolation of fens on the isozyme variability of 17 populations of Swertia perennis. This long-lived perennial is a locally abundant fen specialist in Switzerland, where wetlands have been strongly fragmented. Isozyme variability was comparable to other outcrossing plants (A = 1.53, AP(p) = 2.01, P(p) = 42.5, H(o) = 0.113, H(e) = 0.139). F statistics i...

BACKGROUND The chasmosaurine ceratopsid Chasmosaurus is known from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Two valid species, Chasmosaurus belli and C. russelli, have been diagnosed by differences in cranial ornamentation. Their validity has been supported, in part, by the reported stratigraphic segregation of chasmosaurines in the Dinosaur...