Specialized horse killers in Europe: Foetal horse remains in the Late Pleistocene Srbsko Chlum-Komín Cave hyena den in the Bohemian Karst (Czech Republic) and actualistic comparisons to modern African spotted hyenas as zebra hunters

2010 ◽  
Vol 220 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 174-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cajus G. Diedrich
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Spotted Hyenas ◽  
Bohemian Karst

Silicification, moganite and diagenesis of SiO2 minerals in the oldest spelean sinters of the Koněpruské jeskyně Cave, the Bohemian Karst (Czech Republic)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Václav Suchý ◽  
Vladimír Machovič ◽  
Ladislav Lapčák ◽  
Lenka Borecká ◽  
Margit Žaloudková ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Bohemian Karst

Evaluation of the European method for mapping lichen diversity (LDV) as an indicator of environmental stress in the Czech Republic

Biologia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Svoboda
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Environmental Stress ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Lichen Diversity ◽  
Bohemian Karst ◽  
European Method

AbstractThe European method for mapping lichen diversity (LDV) as an indicator of environmental stress/quality in the Czech Republic was evaluated to determine its applicability in this country. A modified Hawksworth & Rose qualitative scale for determining air pollution levels was used for comparative purposes. The study was undertaken in a partially forested and reasonably polluted region of the Bohemian Karst in central Bohemia during 2003. Measurements obtained by the LDV method yielded values in the range 18–65; measurements obtained by the modified Hawksworth & Rose method indicated zones 4–7, with a high correlation with the LDV results. The LDV method proved to be applicable in the region, but its implementation may be limited by the lack of suitable trees and specific landscape ecology.

Relict Pleistocene calcareous tufa of the Chlupáčova sluj Cave, the Bohemian Karst, Czech Republic: A petrographic and geochemical record of hydrologically-driven cave evolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 385 ◽  
pp. 110-125
Author(s):  
Václav Suchý ◽  
Jiří Zachariáš ◽  
Hsien-Chen Tsai ◽  
Tsai-Luen Yu ◽  
Chuan-Chou Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Calcareous Tufa ◽  
Bohemian Karst

Soft rock pediments in South Moravia, Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 91 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 215-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Czudek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Middle And Late Pleistocene ◽  
South Moravia

AbstractSoft rock pediments developed in South Moravia in some places as early as the Tertiary, in other places as late as the Pleistocene. Depending on local environmental factors the pediments developed either due to backwearing or downwearing. The most suitable conditions for the evolution of the Pleistocene pediments were during transitional periods between warm and cold climate phases and especially during periglacial conditions between cold and warm periods in the Middle and Late Pleistocene. In agricultural landscapes, the studied relief features continue to develop also at present.

Glacial/Interglacial Size Variation in Fossil Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) from Britain

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Klein ◽  
Katharine Scott
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Temperature Variation ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Size Variation ◽  
Crocuta Crocuta ◽  
Bergmann’S Rule ◽  
Spotted Hyena ◽  
Bergmann's Rule ◽  
Spotted Hyenas ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe lower carnassial lengths of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) in 12 late Pleistocene samples from Britain indicate that, on average, local hyenas of the last (Devensian) glaciation were significantly larger than their last-interglaciation (Ipswichian) counterparts. Together with the tendency for spotted hyena carnassial length to increase with latitude in present-day Africa, this suggests that spotted hyena body size is inversely related to temperature, as predicted by Bergmann's rule. The implication is that spotted hyena carnassial length can be used as an independent gauge of Pleistocene temperature variation, though the combined African and British data imply that the relationship between carnassial length and temperature is curvilinear, such that as temperature declines, equal amounts of further decline produce progressively smaller increases in average carnassial length.

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