Mediterranean Ecosystem
Frugivory and seed dispersal in the endemic cactus Eulychnia acida: extending the anachronism hypothesis to the Chilean Mediterranean ecosystem
... Our results indicate that fruits of E. acida are pecked by N. perdicaria and M. thenca, and eaten by the rodent O. degus. However, none of these species could be considered a legitimate seed disperser. Unlike L. ...
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Diversity of a semi-arid, intact Mediterranean ecosystem in southwest Australia
... Less than 15% of the study area is formally protected or allocated resources for conservation, with the majority of the region being land which has no statutory allocated ten- ure and is therefore technically the ...
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Drought reduces tree growing season length but increases nitrogen resorption efficiency in a Mediterranean ecosystem
... of Mediterranean plant species (Penuelas et ...overall ecosystem productivity, summer drought is the most limit- ing period (Niinemets, 2010; Lempereur et ...2016). Mediterranean trees are plastic ...
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Transfer parameters for ICRP's Reference Animals and Plants in a terrestrial Mediterranean ecosystem
... in Mediterranean ecosystems for 32 ele- ments (Ag, Al, As, B, Ba, Be, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu, Fe, I, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, P, Pb, Rb, S, Se, Sr, Ti, Tl, U, V and ...typical Mediterranean semi-natural ...
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Vegetation dynamics and soil water balance in a water limited Mediterranean ecosystem on Sardinia, Italy
... Abstract. Mediterranean ecosystems are commonly het- erogeneous savanna-like ecosystems, with contrasting plant functional types (PFTs, ...water. Mediterranean ecosystems are also commonly characterized by ...
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Simulating biomass assimilation in a Mediterranean ecosystem model using SOFA: setup and identical twin experiments
... Even if root mean squared differences are generally smaller in the assimilation run than in the free run, for all the four biochemical variables, inorganic nitrogen exhibits a clear improvement only at surface, while in ...
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Economic performance of small ruminant production in a protected area: a case study from Tell Ar-Rumman, a Mediterranean ecosystem in Jordan
... This paper discusses the qualitative impact of a grazing/herding management program on the profitability of Small Ruminant (SR) herds near the protected area of the Royal Botanic Garden [r] ...
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Impacts of Neotectonics and Salt Diaper on the Nile Fan Deposit, Eastern Mediterranean
... eastern Mediterranean is characterized by a large Nile fan deposit which has bordered by arc-shaped and wide sedimentary ...the Mediterranean Sea [1, ...the Mediterranean Sea water led to the ...
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An ecosystem approach to understanding and managing within-host parasite community dynamics
... within-host ecosystem may be consid- ered to be stable if there is little change in parasite commu- nity composition or structure (presence/absence or burden of species within that community) after the ...
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Assembly of Western European Union Proceedings, Fourteenth Ordinary Session, Second Part. Volume IV: Minutes, Official report of debates. Paris, February 1969
... Security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East ; Political implications of the Soviet intervention in the Mediterranean ; European security in the aftermath of the invasion of Czechos[r] ...
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Fisheries and aquaculture in Europe [Newsletter] August 2008 No 39
... In order to implement measures to restrict fishing effort, the fleet and gears must be counted and registered everywhere in the same way. A working group on assessment methodologies was created in 2005 and its task led ...
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Sponge Fauna in the Sea of Marmara
... Sponge species collected along the coasts of the Sea of the Marmara in 2012-2013 were identified. A total of 30 species belonging to 21 families were found, of which four species (Ascandra contorta, Paraleucilla magna, ...
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Tracking atmospheric and riverine terrigenous supplies variability during the last glacial and the Holocene in central Mediterranean
... But investigations of the marine propagation of the sapro- pelic layer from eastern toward western Mediterranean ev- idenced the absence of true sapropels and/or synchronous events (Mercone et al., 2000) in the ...
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Europe in the Middle East
... the Mediterranean into a cohesive new economic area of shared prosperity and security cooperation stemmed from the continuation of disputes between the partner states (not least the Arab–Israeli conflict), the ...
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Creating Business Agility How Convergence of Cloud, Social, Mobile, Video and Big Data Enables Competitve Advantage pdf
... scenarios. These business processes and models are applicable across industries and are rapidly deployed to provide agility and sustain- ability. Whether we are making hotel reservations, purchasing airline tickets, ...
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Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Regression Models in Mediterranean Forests Fires for Severity Mapping Using Landsat TM and ETM+ Data
... time using remotely sensed spectral indices imagery from Landsat data in a Mediterranean 481. ecosystem[r] ...
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Novel metrics based on Biogeochemical Argo data to improve the model uncertainty evaluation of the CMEMS Mediterranean marine ecosystem forecasts
... The MedBFM surface chlorophyll for the period 2016– 2017 is compared with satellite data in Fig. 3, while time series of model and satellite data are shown for four selected sub-basins in Fig. 4. The Mediterranean ...
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Agro Ecosystem Services – Governance Needs and Efficiency
... The low appropriability is often caused by unspecified or badly specified private rights [21]. In some cases, the most effective government intervention would be to introduce and enforce new private property rights – ...
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Twenty years of ecosystem services: how far have we come and how far do we still need to go?
... from ecosystem functions, to ecosystem ser- vices to benefits and then to value ...above. Ecosystem services are defined as the functions and processes of ecosystems that benefit humans, directly or ...
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Smallholder farmers’ perception on ecosystem-based approaches for remedying land degradation in Nabdam District, Ghana
... using ecosystem-based approaches, there is a direct relationship between NDVI/NPP through the use of sustainable land use and management practices and land improvement (the opposite of land ...of ecosystem ...
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