scholarly journals Myosotis refracta Boiss. (Boraginaceae), an Unexpected Forget-me-not in the Slovene Flora

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Strgulc Krajšek ◽  
Marko Accetto ◽  
Nejc Jogan
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
North West ◽  
New Localities

Abstract Myosotis refracta Boiss. is reported as a new and unexpected finding for the Slovene flora. The species was found in three collections stored in the Herbarium LJU from south-east Slovenia, in the Kolpa river valley bordering Croatia. All plants thrived under overhanging dolomite rocks. On account of an earlier misidentification, the respective plant community had been described as the association Arabido alpinae-Myosotidetum strictae Accetto 2008, which is here corrected to Arabido alpinae-Myosotidetum refractae Accetto 2008 corr. Strgulc Krajšek, Accetto & Jogan 2016. Myosotis refracta has a disjunct Mediterranean-southwest Asian distribution. The reported new localities extend its known range more than 500 km in north-west direction, from its nearest known occurrences on the southern Balkan peninsula.

Stanowiska reliktowego gatunku Betula humilis (Betulaceae) w Dolinie Górnego Nurca na Nizinie Północnopodlaskiej

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kołos
Keyword(s):  
Drainage Ditches ◽  
North West ◽  
Hay Meadows ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Betula Humilis ◽  
Trees And Shrubs

Betula humilis Schrank (shrubby birch) is among the most endangered shrub species in Poland. All localities are in the eastern and northern parts of the country, where the species reaches the western border of its geographical range in Europe. Betula humilis is disappearing in Poland due to wetland melioration and shrub succession. Over 80% of the localities described in Poland have not been confirmed in the last 20 years. Five new localities of B. humilis in the North Podlasie Lowland were recorded from 2008 to 2019 in the Upper Nurzec Valley (Fig. 1): 1–1.5 km south-west of Pawlinowo village (in the ATPOL GC7146 plot) and 1.5–2 km north-west of Żuki village (ATPOL GC7155, GC156 and GC166). The population near Pawlinowo (locality 1) is currently composed of ~80 individuals (101 individuals were noted in 2010) and is one of the largest populations in north-eastern Poland. Betula humilis grows there within patches dominated by Salix rosmarinifolia and megaforbs. The population at locality 5 is composed of 18 individuals. At the remaining localities, only 1–4 individuals were found, scattered along drainage ditches surrounded by hay meadows. At some of these localities the species is threatened with extinction. It is suggested to remove competitive trees and shrubs (mainly Populus tremula, Betula pubescens and Salix cinerea) in order to maintain the local populations.

scholarly journals Changes and contemporary trends in the annual amounts of precipitation in Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Hristo Popov ◽  
Jelena Svetozarevich
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Annual Precipitation ◽  
Precipitation Data ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
The Republic ◽  
River Valleys ◽  
Annual Amount ◽  
The Sava River

The Republic of Serbia is а continental country located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, in Southeast Europe. In terms of physical characteristics, Serbia is divided into two parts: Pannonian part and mountainous part. The northern part of the country is located in the valley of the Middle Danube, the Sava River valley and the Tisza River valley. In the middle part of the country, the river valleys of the Drina, the Kolubara and the Morava are located. For the purposes of this research, the authors have used the annual precipitation data from 15 meteorological stations distributed throughout the Republic of Serbia. The data from these meteorological stations for the period between 1991 and 2019 has been provided by The Serbian Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology. This data has been used to calculate the annual amount of precipitation, and the trends in annual precipitation.

scholarly journals The Serbs in Croatia before and after the break-up of Yugoslavia

2006 ◽  
pp. 253-270
Author(s):  
Jovan Ilic
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
World War ◽  
Independent State ◽  
North West ◽  
West Part ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Ethnic War

The Serbs are first mentioned in the west part of the Balkan peninsula in 822. They populated the regions east of the river Cetina, mountain Pljesevica and the area between the rivers Una and Kupa. It means that the significant part of the present Republic of Croatia had been populated by the Serbs since the settlement of the Slavs. The main regions mostly populated by the Serbs were north-west Dalmatia, the larger part of Lika and Kordun, Banija, west Slavonia and smaller sections in east Slavonia, west Srem and Baranya. Social-political circumstances for the life of the Serbs in Croatia were mostly very unfavorable. Extremely unfavourable circumstances were during World War II in The Independent State of Croatia, when the Croatian ustasha fighters carried out an extensive, systematic, comprehensive and bestial genocide, that is ethnocide over the Serbs. The second genocide, that is ethnocide over the Serbs in Croatia was carried out in the civil ethnic-religious war 1991-1995, specially in 1995. In these years, the nationalist- chauvinist, antiserbian movement and war suddenly flared up in Croatia. The Serbs living there were forced to defend, so on December 19 1991 they proclaimed The Republic of Srpska Krajina. However, the Croatian armed forces were military stronger. The Serbs were defeated and punished by the total destruction of their property and mass expulsion. In that cruel civil-ethnic war, about 276.000 Serbs were expelled from Croatia, several thousand of them were killed. About 40.000 Serbian houses were destroyed and 380 Serbian villages were burnt. Hundreds of Serbian-Orthodox religious edifices were burnt or destroyed. The value of the destroyed or plundered Serbian property in Croatia was estimated at about 30 billion euros. According to the official Croatian data, in the last several years about 60.000 Serbs-refugees returned from Serbia to their native land, mostly older persons or those who returned to sell their property and leave Croatia again. About 40.000 of them went to live abroad. However, the Serbs-returnees still live in very difficult conditions, discriminated in all segments of life primarily when it comes to employment.

scholarly journals Pleistocene Geology of the South-West Yukon Territory, Canada

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (40) ◽  
pp. 385-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Krinsley
Keyword(s):  
Yukon Territory ◽  
River Valley ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
White River ◽  
North East ◽  
South West ◽  
M 12

Abstract A morainal sequence in south-west Yukon Territory, Canada, records at least four major, successively less extensive glaciations from ice fields in the St. Elias Mountains south of the glaciated area. The Nisling Moraine flanks the Klondike Plateau in a belt t km. wide to an altitude of 1,040 m., 12 km. north-east of Snag. The northernmost lobe of this moraine terminates at the junction of the Donjek and White Rivers, 120 km, from the nearest source of ice, Klutlan Glacier. 11 km. north-east of Snag, the prominent front of the Donjek Moraine lies 180 m. below the front of the Nisling Moraine. The northernmost lobe of the Donjek Moraine terminates 106 km. north of Klutlan Glacier and occupies the lower courses of canyons cut into the Nisling Moraine. The front of the Snag Moraine crosses the White River valley 210 m. below the front of the Donjek Moraine and 96 km. north of Klutlan Glacier. The Tchawsahmon Moraine, 38 km. north-west of Klutlan Glacier. consists of a series of concentric ridges, the oldest of which impounded Tchawsahmon Lake. Provisional correlations suggest that the Nisling Moraine is pre-Illinoian; the Donjek, Illinoian; the Snag, pre-classical Wisconsin; and the Tchawsahmon, classical Wisconsin.

scholarly journals Pleistocene Geology of the South-West Yukon Territory, Canada

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (40) ◽  
pp. 385-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Krinsley
Keyword(s):  
Yukon Territory ◽  
River Valley ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
White River ◽  
North East ◽  
South West ◽  
M 12

AbstractA morainal sequence in south-west Yukon Territory, Canada, records at least four major, successively less extensive glaciations from ice fields in the St. Elias Mountains south of the glaciated area.The Nisling Moraine flanks the Klondike Plateau in a belt t km. wide to an altitude of 1,040 m., 12 km. north-east of Snag. The northernmost lobe of this moraine terminates at the junction of the Donjek and White Rivers, 120 km, from the nearest source of ice, Klutlan Glacier. 11 km. north-east of Snag, the prominent front of the Donjek Moraine lies 180 m. below the front of the Nisling Moraine. The northernmost lobe of the Donjek Moraine terminates 106 km. north of Klutlan Glacier and occupies the lower courses of canyons cut into the Nisling Moraine. The front of the Snag Moraine crosses the White River valley 210 m. below the front of the Donjek Moraine and 96 km. north of Klutlan Glacier. The Tchawsahmon Moraine, 38 km. north-west of Klutlan Glacier. consists of a series of concentric ridges, the oldest of which impounded Tchawsahmon Lake.Provisional correlations suggest that the Nisling Moraine is pre-Illinoian; the Donjek, Illinoian; the Snag, pre-classical Wisconsin; and the Tchawsahmon, classical Wisconsin.

scholarly journals Genetic evidence for occurrence of Macrovipera razii (Squamata, Viperidae) in the central Zagros region, Iran

Herpetozoa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamzeh Oraie
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Distance ◽  
Cytochrome B ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
North West ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome B ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Zagros Region

This study presents the first molecular evidence of Macrovipera razii from central Zagros, more than 300 km north-west of its prior records in southern Iran. Molecular analyses based on mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences identified the individuals from central Zagros as a lineage of M. razii. Specimens from the new localities are separated by a genetic distance of 1.46% from the known populations of M. razii. The results extend the known distribution range of M. razii as an endemic species of Iran.

scholarly journals New localities of rare for the Arkhangelsk region speciesin the Lyamitsky landscape of the Onega peninsula

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-442
Author(s):  
Oleg Morozov ◽  
Olga Markova
Keyword(s):  
Rare Species ◽  
Northern Taiga ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Taiga Zone ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
North West ◽  
Arkhangelsk Region ◽  
The North ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Living Organisms

The Onega Peninsula is located in the north-west of Russia in the Arkhangelsk Region, juts out into the White Sea, is located in an area of a transitional climate from an oceanic to a continental temperate climatic zone, belongs to the central sector of the northern taiga zone. The flora and fauna of the peninsula are very diverse. A significant part of natural complexes is highly preserved and is ideal for biosphere monitoring. In connection with intensive industrial logging on the peninsula, there is a need to identify rare species of living organisms and determine measures for their protection. The article provides data on the finds of habitats of 11 rare species discovered by the author during field routes along the Lyamitsky landscape in the period from 2009 to 2020. Finds of 10 out of 11 species have not been previously published. In 2020, the state of a group of individuals of 1 of 11 species that had not yet formed a stable population was reexamined, the find of which was previously published. This species (derbyanka spikate) is new for the Arkhangelsk and all adjacent regions and needs to be entered into the Red Book of the Arkhangelsk Region, which includes the remaining 10 species. 4 species of them are also included in the Red Book of the Russian Federation. The finds of the species belong to the lands of different purposes: to the forbidden zone of forests and to the lands of the forest fund leased by a logging company. The article discusses the number of discovered species and such a limiting factor as logging. The assessment of the feasibility of measures for the protection of species has been carried out. It was revealed that some of them (splachnums) increase in number due to felling, the number of others is not threatened by felling (common viper, etc.), to preserve the number of the third, special protection measures are required (pulmonary lobaria, truncated horn, etc.). The information obtained is processed cartographically using geoinformation technologies and can be used to replenish the database of the Red Book species and to organize their protection.

Contribution to the moss flora of tundra zone of the Kola Peninsula (North-West of Russia)

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
O. A. Belkina ◽  
A. Yu. Likhachev
Keyword(s):  
Kola Peninsula ◽  
Barents Sea ◽  
Tundra Zone ◽  
North West ◽  
Red Data Book ◽  
Murmansk Region ◽  
The World ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Data Book ◽  
Northeastern Coast

Moss flora of surroundings of the Drozdovka and Ivanovskaya bays on the northeastern coast of the Kola Peninsula (Barents Sea) was studied in 2016. A list of 203 species of mosses is presented, 13 of them are new for tundra zone of the Murmansk Region. 135 species were collected within the Nature monument “Guba Ivanovskaya”. Some rare variations and forms of mosses were collected. New localities of 6 species included in the Red Data Book of the Murmansk Region (2014) were found. Populations of Cynodontium suecicum, rare in the world species, was revealed near Drozdovka River. The studied bryoflora is similar to the other local moss floras of the tundra zone of the Murmansk Region.

Two New Rock-cut Tombs in the Bārāndūz Valley, Iran

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-361
Author(s):  
Roberto Dan ◽  
Behrouz Khan Mohammadi ◽  
Keomars Haji Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The article presents a newly discovered site with a fortress and a rock-cut complex in the Lake Urmiya basin. The site is located approximately 1 kilometre north-west of the village of Sydk/Sīdak in the Bārāndūz River valley, about 30 km south-west of the city of Urmiya.

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