Common reed (Phragmites communis) is a natural host of important cereal viruses in the Trakya region of Turkey

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 441-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Havva Ilbağı
Keyword(s):  
Common Reed ◽  
Natural Host ◽  
Phragmites Communis

Timing of breeding, habitat preference and reproductive success of marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus)

Biologia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iva Němečková ◽  
Vojtěch Mrlík ◽  
Pavel Drozd
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Success ◽  
Reproductive Output ◽  
Common Reed ◽  
Breeding Birds ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
Breeding Period ◽  
Phragmites Communis ◽  
Circus Aeruginosus ◽  
Heterogeneous Habitat ◽  
The Common

AbstractDuring 2002–2005 we analyzed Lack’s Hypothesis about the timing of the breeding of marsh harriers (Circus aeruginosus) in the Poodří to the breeding period and preference of heterogeneous habitat. An analysis of 43 nests revealed quantitative differences. Birds which started breeding earlier, reached significantly higher reproductive success than later breeding birds regardless of nesting habitat (P = 0.003, n nests = 43). Even when the birds invested into their offspring the same way, their breeding success was not always the same. When the females nested in the common reed (Phragmites communis), they reached higher reproductive output than females nesting in cattail (Typha sp.) (P = 0.01, n cattail = 18, n common reed = 25). The habitat of the common reed is characterized by higher and denser vegetation cover than cattail vegetation (P < 0.001, n measurements = 174 for both variables).

Shasta ground sloth food habits, Rampart Cave, Arizona

Paleobiology ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Food Habits ◽  
Grand Canyon ◽  
Common Reed ◽  
Phragmites Communis ◽  
Acacia Greggii ◽  
Gross Energy ◽  
Digestible Protein ◽  
Ephedra Nevadensis ◽  
Ground Sloth

The feces of the Shasta ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastense), preserved by the arid climate of the lower Grand Canyon, were collected at various levels and examined by microhistological analyses to identify and quantify plant taxa in the diet. Over 500 pieces of different Shasta sloth coprolites were examined. Sloth dung from the nearby Muav Caves was examined and compared with that from Rampart Cave.Seventy-two genera of plants were identified in the sloth dung deposited discontinuously from over 40,000 to about 11,000 yr BP. The major plant taxa in the Rampart Cave sloth diets were desert globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua = 52%), Nevada mormontea (Ephedra nevadensis = 18%), saltbushes (Atriplex spp. = 7%), catclaw acacia (Acacia greggii = 6%), Cactaceae spp. (= 3%), common reed (Phragmites communis = 5%), and yucca (Yucca spp. = 2%).Six of the most abundant plants in sloth diets were collected in the environs of Rampart Cave and were analyzed for their energy, fiber and nutrient values. The simulated diets of Rampart Cave sloths averaged 1679 cal/g in digestible gross energy and 7.9% for digestible protein. Apart from a substantial increase in digestible energy and in mormontea there was no unusual change in the sloth diet immediately prior to the time of their extinction.The ecological role of Nothrotheriops shastense is less dramatically different from that of extant desert herbivores than was previously believed.

Phragmites communis (Common reed)

2019 ◽  
pp. 1848-1849
Author(s):  
K. Subramanya Sastry ◽  
Bikash Mandal ◽  
John Hammond ◽  
S. W. Scott ◽  
R. W. Briddon
Keyword(s):  
Common Reed ◽  
Phragmites Communis

Phytoremediation of Oilfield Soils

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Шулаев ◽  
N. Shulaev ◽  
Пряничникова ◽  
V. Pryanichnikova ◽  
Кадыров ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Typha Latifolia ◽  
Common Reed ◽  
Model Solution ◽  
Phragmites Communis ◽  
Statistical Data Processing ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
Preliminary Preparation ◽  
Produced Waters

A way for restoration of soils polluted at oil production using plants has been described. Experiments on a research related to influence of oil and produced waters’ various volumes on mace reed (Týpha latifólia) and common reed grass (Phragmites communis) seeds viability have been carried out. These perennial plants’ reaction nature on soils pollution by salts’ model solution corresponding on structure to produced waters of fields has been studied. Statistical data processing has been carried out, and germinating ability-pollution content relationships have been described. Indicators for dynamics of germinating ability suppression have been presented. The obtained data demonstrates a possibility for use of hygrophilous vegetation’s described species at re-cultivation related to sites of oilfield soils with increased moistening as independently, and with preliminary preparation through other treatment technologies.

scholarly journals Improving quality of common reed (Phragmites communis Trin.) silage with additives

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 1747-1755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keigo Asano ◽  
Takahiro Ishikawa ◽  
Ayako Araie ◽  
Motohiko Ishida
Keyword(s):  
Common Reed ◽  
Phragmites Communis

Observations On the Oviposition Behaviour of Polemon Liparae Gir

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Mook
Keyword(s):  
Common Reed ◽  
Oviposition Behaviour ◽  
Egg Recognition ◽  
Phragmites Communis ◽  
Larval Parasite ◽  
Laboratory Conditions ◽  
Egg Shell ◽  
Important Parasite

AbstractPolemon liparae Gir. is an important parasite of the chloropid fly Lipara lucens Mg. which induces the formation of a gall on Common Reed (Phragmites communis Trin.). The females of Polemon search for the eggs of Lipara, that are attached to the leaves and stem of the plant. They walk up and down the reed culms with the antennae touching as great a part of the surface of the plant as possible. When an egg is found the insect shifts its position in such a way that the mouthparts touch the far end of the spindle-shaped egg. Next the abdomen is bent forward under the thorax and the egg shell is stroked by the ovipositor. The stroking may be followed by oviposition. This always occurs at the end of the egg. It is suggested that the stroking serves egg recognition and the distinction of parasitized from unparasitized eggs. Contacts with unparasitized eggs lead to oviposition in a much greater proportion of cases than those with eggs that are already parasitized. Only about one half of an egg is tested at a time in this way. The result is that, under laboratory conditions, some host eggs are parasitized two times, receiving a parasite egg at either end. Polemon is an egg larval parasite.

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