Apodemus sylvaticus in the UK. Abstract The presence of the cyclophyllidean cestode Rodentolepis straminea (Cestoda, Hymenolepididae), was confirmed by molecular DNA analysis from a wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) population inhabiting urban woodland in Salford, Greater Manchester (UK) with a prevalence of 27.8%. It would appear that the only previous published record of this species in A. syl...

Large organic food falls to the deep sea--such as whale carcasses and wood logs--are known to serve as stepping stones for the dispersal of highly adapted chemosynthetic organisms inhabiting hot vents and cold seeps. Here we investigated the biogeochemical and microbiological processes leading to the development of sulfidic niches by deploying wood colonization experiments at a depth of 1690 m ...

Studies are reviewed that demonstrate the leaching of Cu, Cr, and As from pressure-treated wood in aquatic environments. The metals leached out accumulate in sediments near the wood (particularly bulkheads, which have more surface area for leaching than dock pilings). The metals also accumulate in organisms, including epibiota that live directly on the wood and benthic organisms, which live in ...

Resin acids in many pulp mill effluents are primary sources of toxicity to fish. Inconsistent biological detoxification of chlorinated and nonchlorinated resin acids in secondary treatment of pulp mill effluents is a continuing source of concern. An alternative approach to effluent detoxification is to remove or modify the toxic compounds present in wood chips prior to pulping. Results from exp...

Wood-decaying Basidiomycetes are among the most efficient degraders of plant cell walls, making them key players in forest ecosystems, global carbon cycle, and bio-based industries. Recent insights from -omics data revealed a high functional diversity wood-decay strategies, especially traditional white-rot brown-rot dichotomy. We examined mechanistic bases conifer-specialists Armillaria ostoyae...

Hundreds of wood-inhabiting fungal species are now threatened, principally due to a lack of dead wood in intensively managed forests, but the consequences of reduced fungal diversity on ecosystem functioning are not known. Several experiments have shown that primary productivity is negatively affected by a loss of species, but the effects of microbial diversity on decomposition are less studied...

Abstract The overall aim of this study was to investigate the durability acetylated beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) laminated veneer lumber (LVL) against wood-destroying basidiomycetes. secondary objective test whether specimen size affects mass loss and assessment wood-material under test. based on pre-standard prEN 113-3. Six materials (acetylated LVL, untreated solid wood, pine sapwood Pinus syl...

Xylotrophic basidiomycetes are an essential component of any biogeocoenosis. It is due to these organisms that one the most important processes occurs throughout biosphere, namely decomposition organic substances and, first all, cellulose, which synthesized by producers. However, phytopathogens bring significant losses forestry, making wood unsuitable for industrial use. At same time, sufficien...

An interesting wood-inhabiting pyrenomycete was discovered while collecting for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory currently being conducted in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This species is unique in possessing superficial ascomata with reddish tubercles and ascospores that develop an apical swollen brown cell and a long, basal hyaline cell. Because these ascospore characters fit th...