Military training area in Kras (Slovenia)

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kogovšek ◽  
M. Knez ◽  
A. Mihevc ◽  
M. Petrič ◽  
T. Slabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Military Training ◽  
Training Area

scholarly journals Dose-response relationships of harlequin duck behaviour to noise from low-level military jet over-flights in central Labrador

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. IAN GOUDIE ◽  
IAN L. JONES
Keyword(s):  
Dose Response ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Residual Effects ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Time Activity ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Lake Outlet ◽  
Harlequin Ducks ◽  
Training Area

Concern for the lack of field studies on the effects of low-level military jet over-flights on wildlife resulted in directed research in the Military Training Area of Labrador, 1999–2002. At Fig River, a tributary of the Lower Churchill River, a before-after-control-impact (BACI) study design quantified effects of aircraft over-flights on behaviour of individual harlequin ducks (Histrionicus histrionicus) in the 130 000 km2 Military Training Area of central Labrador. Noise generated from low-level passes (30–100 m above ground level) by military jets was sudden in onset and high in amplitude (>100 dBA), substantially above background sound levels both at Fig Lake outlet (40–50 dBA) and rapid sections of Fig River (60–70 dBA). Harlequin ducks reacted to noise from military jets with alert behaviour, showing a positive dose-response that especially intensified when noise exceeded 80 dBA. Residual effects, in other words, deviations from normal behaviour patterns after initial responses, were decreased courtship behaviour for up to 1.5 h after, and increased agonistic behaviour for up to 2 h after military jet over-flights. Direct behavioural responses to military jet over-flights were of short duration (generally <1 min), and were unlikely to affect critical behaviours such as feeding and resting in the overall time-activity budgets of breeding pairs. However, the presence of residual effects on behaviour implied whole-body stress responses that were potentially more serious; these require further study because they are potentially more detrimental than immediate responses, and may not be detected in studies that focus on readily observed overt responses. A dose-response curve relating particular behaviours of harlequin ducks to associated noise of over-flights could be a valuable conservation tool for the research and mitigation of environmental impacts of aircraft and other noise.

scholarly journals Discovery of Cocirculating Ross River Virus and Barmah Forest Virus At Wide Bay Military Training Area, Northeastern Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-223
Author(s):  
Jo Kizu ◽  
Christina Neuman ◽  
Luke Le Grand ◽  
Wenjun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Ross River Virus ◽  
Chain Reaction ◽  
Culex Annulirostris ◽  
Australian Defence Force ◽  
Polymerase Chain ◽  
Human Infections ◽  
Training Area

ABSTRACT An arbovirus surveillance military exercise was conducted to assess the risk of Ross River virus (RRV) and Barmah Forest virus (BFV) in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Wide Bay training area (WBTA), northeastern Australia, in April 2018. Of the 5,540 female mosquitoes collected, 3,702 were screened for RRV and BFV by quantitative reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction in a field laboratory. One pool of Verrallina funerea was positive for RRV and 8 pools (7 pools of Aedes vigilax and 1 pool of Culex annulirostris) were positive for BFV. Phylogenetic analysis of the complete nucleotide sequence of the E2 protein subgrouped both RRV and BFV with viruses previously isolated from human infections, indicating the potential risk of RRV and BFV infection to ADF personnel while training in WBTA. This is the 1st time that both RRV and BFV have been detected in a military training area.

scholarly journals Territorial nature protection in the former military training area Ralsko

Geografie ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
Miroslav Honců
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
National Nature Reserve ◽  
Training Area

In the region of the former military training area Ralsko 11 small scale protected areas were declared. One of them belongs to the national nature reserve category, 3 to the nature reserve category and 7 protected areas were placed in the nature monument category. The paper contains a detailed overview of all 11 declared small scale protected areas, 3 temporarily protected areas and proposals for some localities to be declared as protected.

Severe decline and partial recovery of a rare butterfly on an active military training area

2017 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantina Zografou ◽  
Mark T. Swartz ◽  
Virginia P. Tilden ◽  
Erika N. McKinney ◽  
Julie A. Eckenrode ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Military Training ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
Training Area

Occurrence of Ross River Virus and Barmah Forest Virus in Mosquitoes at Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area, Queensland, Australia

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Frances ◽  
R. D. Cooper ◽  
K. L. Rowcliffe ◽  
N. Chen ◽  
Q. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Military Training ◽  
Ross River Virus ◽  
Training Area
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