Coastal resources are coming under increasing pressure from competition between recreational, commercial and conservation uses. This is particularly so in coastal areas adjacent to major population centres. Given high recreational and conservation values in such areas, economic activities need to be highly efficient in order to persist. Management of these industries must therefore also encoura...

The detailed investigation of a methanolic extract of aerial parts of Achillea nobilis resulted in the isolation of 10 flavonoids. A new C-glycosylflavone, luteolin-6-C-apiofuranosyl-(1'''-->2'')-glucoside, was isolated besides orientin, isoorientin, vitexin, isoschaftoside, luteolin-7-O-beta-glucuronide, luteolin-4'-O-beta-glucoside and quercetin-3-O-methyl ether and two rare flavonolglycoside...

the chemical composition of the essential oil obtained from the aerial parts of laurus nobilis l. has been examined by gas chromatography (gc) and gc- mass spectrometery (ms). the main components of the oil were identified. 1,8-cineole was the major component in the oil together with b-terpinyl acetate, terpinene-4-ol, a-pinene, b-pinene, p-cymene, linalool and terpinene-4-ylacetate. the essent...

the aim of this study was to determine the concentration of copper and hazard quotient (hq) in muscle of the carp aquaculture fishes (common carp) (cyprinus carpio), grass carp (ctenopharyngodon idella), big head carp (aristichthys nobilis) and silver carp (hypophthalmichthys molitrix)] in khuzestan province. 108 pieces farmed fish sampled was prepared from the azadegan warm water fish culture ...

laurus nobilis l. (sweet laurel) is one of the volatile oil bearing plants of lauraceae family. it is cultivated in different parts of iran and its leaves and fruits have been used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. there are a few reports about the effects of some environmental conditions on the quality and quantity of laurel volatiles. the goal of our work was to search the sea...

Until the late 2010s spiny fan-mussel Pinna rudis shared habitat in many Mediterranean sites with endemic nobilis, which dominated abundance but that has gone locally extinct most of its distribution area due to a recent widespread disease outbreak. In Columbretes Islands Marine Reserve (NW Mediterranean) both species coexisted until 2017, when P. nobilis populations completely disappeared. spr...

The concentrically-layered photonic structure found in the tropical fruit Margaritaria nobilis serves as inspiration for photonic fibers with mechanically tunable band-gap. The fibers show the spectral filtering capabilities of a planar Bragg stack while the microscopic curvature decreases the strong directional chromaticity associated with flat multilayers. Elongation of the elastic fibers res...