scholarly journals Welcoming new editors for Forest Ecology and Management!

2022 ◽  
Vol 505 ◽  
pp. 119936
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecology

scholarly journals A Survey of the Knowledge of Truffles among Polish Foresters and Implications for Environmental Education

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 365
Author(s):  
Dorota Hilszczańska ◽  
Aleksandra Rosa-Gruszecka ◽  
Bogusław Kosel ◽  
Jakub Horak ◽  
Marta Siebyła
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Forest Ecology ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Hypogeous Fungi ◽  
The Public ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ecology Education ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Tuber Spp

While the use of truffles in Poland has a long tradition, for historical reasons this knowledge was almost lost. Currently, truffles and truffle orchards are again receiving public attention. For example, the Polish State Forests supported the establishment of truffle orchards by the Forestry Research Institute. In recent years, knowledge concerning these unique hypogeous fungi has been disseminated systematically through scientific and popular publications, films, and electronic media. This study investigates the awareness of economically and culinary valued truffle fungi (Tuber spp.) among more than 1400 Polish foresters. The results show that 70% of interviewees were familiar with historical and contemporary information about growing and using truffles in Poland. Based on respondents’ age, education, type of work, and gender we attempted to identify whether these elements were associated with the state of knowledge about truffles. The results indicated that younger foresters were better informed about the presence of truffles in Poland and also about their use in the past in Polish cuisine. Environmental education was an important source of knowledge about truffle harvesting and the soils that are conducive to truffle development. Foresters who have provided forest ecology education and who are 36–65 years of age generally possessed better knowledge about truffles than other age cohorts. More than 30% of respondents expressed interest in educational courses to improve their knowledge of truffles. The results point to the need for forestry education concerning truffles and indicate the need for fostering sustainable agroforestry-centered initiatives disseminating this knowledge to the public.

scholarly journals The mandrill in Gabon's rain forest—ecology, distribution and status

Oryx ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. S. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Ecology ◽  
Human Pressure ◽  
Forest Habitat ◽  
Hunting Pressure ◽  
Mandrillus Sphinx ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
In The Wild

Little is known about the mandrill Mandrillus sphinx in the wild. It is an elusive primate and thus difficult to study in its rain-forest habitat in equatorial Africa. As human pressure on its habitat grows it has become increasingly urgent to discover more about the species so that appropriate conservation measures can be planned. The author made a 15-month study of the mandrill in Gabon and discovered that it was not as widely distributed as had been believed. Although it is threatened by hunting pressure and habitat disruption, populations still remain and five reserves protect some of these.

Landscape patterns influence communities of medium- to large-bodied vertebrates in undisturbed terra firme forests of French Guiana

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 423-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Richard-Hansen ◽  
Gaëlle Jaouen ◽  
Thomas Denis ◽  
Olivier Brunaux ◽  
Eric Marcon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beta Diversity ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Forest Ecology ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Diversity Indices ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Line Transect ◽  
Terra Firme ◽  
Association Index

Abstract:Whereas broad-scale Amazonian forest types have been shown to influence the structure of the communities of medium- to large-bodied vertebrates, their natural heterogeneity at smaller scale or within the terra firme forests remains poorly described and understood. Diversity indices of such communities and the relative abundance of the 21 most commonly observed species were compared from standardized line-transect data across 25 study sites distributed in undisturbed forests in French Guiana. We first assessed the relevance of a forest typology based on geomorphological landscapes to explain the observed heterogeneity. As previously found for tree beta-diversity patterns, this new typology proved to be a non-negligible factor underlying the beta diversity of the communities of medium- to large bodied vertebrates in French Guianan terra firme forests. Although the species studied are almost ubiquitous across the region, they exhibited habitat preferences through significant variation in abundance and in their association index with the different landscape types. As terra firme forests represent more than 90% of the Amazon basin, characterizing their heterogeneity – including faunal communities – is a major challenge in neotropical forest ecology.

scholarly journals Newtonian boreal forest ecology: The Scots pine ecosystem as an example

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. e0177927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pertti Hari ◽  
Tuomas Aakala ◽  
Juho Aalto ◽  
Jaana Bäck ◽  
Jaakko Hollmén ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Scots Pine ◽  
Forest Ecology

scholarly journals Identification and functional characterization of two bamboo FD gene homologs having contrasting effects on shoot growth and flowering

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Smritikana Dutta ◽  
Anwesha Deb ◽  
Prasun Biswas ◽  
Sukanya Chakraborty ◽  
Suman Guha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Forest Ecology ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Functional Characterization ◽  
Constitutive Expression ◽  
Transcript Level ◽  
In Planta ◽  
Mobility Shift ◽  
Vegetative Development ◽  
Sequence Comparisons

AbstractBamboos, member of the family Poaceae, represent many interesting features with respect to their fast and extended vegetative growth, unusual, yet divergent flowering time across species, and impact of sudden, large scale flowering on forest ecology. However, not many studies have been conducted at the molecular level to characterize important genes that regulate vegetative and flowering habit in bamboo. In this study, two bamboo FD genes, BtFD1 and BtFD2, which are members of the florigen activation complex (FAC) have been identified by sequence and phylogenetic analyses. Sequence comparisons identified one important amino acid, which was located in the DNA-binding basic region and was altered between BtFD1 and BtFD2 (Ala146 of BtFD1 vs. Leu100 of BtFD2). Electrophoretic mobility shift assay revealed that this alteration had resulted into ten times higher binding efficiency of BtFD1 than BtFD2 to its target ACGT motif present at the promoter of the APETALA1 gene. Expression analyses in different tissues and seasons indicated the involvement of BtFD1 in flower and vegetative development, while BtFD2 was very lowly expressed throughout all the tissues and conditions studied. Finally, a tenfold increase of the AtAP1 transcript level by p35S::BtFD1 Arabidopsis plants compared to wild type confirms a positively regulatory role of BtFD1 towards flowering. However, constitutive expression of BtFD1 had led to dwarfisms and apparent reduction in the length of flowering stalk and numbers of flowers/plant, whereas no visible phenotype was observed for BtFD2 overexpression. This signifies that timely expression of BtFD1 may be critical to perform its programmed developmental role in planta.

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