scholarly journals Changeability of Air Pollution in Katowice Region (Central Europe, Southern Poland)

10.5772/22013 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mieczysaw Lesniok
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Southern Poland

Melanism in Biston betularius from north-west Europe (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Clinal Variation ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
Melanic Form ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Nw Europe

AbstractRandom samples of B. betularius males show a clinal variation in the degree of melanism: from high melanic frequencies in Denmark and south-west Sweden to almost no melanism in south Finland. Old samples from Denmark dating back to the end of the 19th century have strikingly lower melanic frequencies than recent samples showing an increase in melanism during the 20th century in NW Europe. Levels of air pollution and melanic frequency coincide fairly well indicating that the spread of melanism is a response to increased air pollution as also is demonstrated elsewhere. In Britain, in central Europe, and in USA a black morph has evolved whereas in NW Europe the grey morph (insularius) is the predominating melanic form indicating that evolution of melanism in B. betularius has followed its own course in NW Europe.

Air pollution and forest decline in Central Europe

1995 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Kandler ◽  
John L. Innes
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Forest Decline

Response of Evernia prunastri to urban environmental conditions in Central Europe after the decrease of air pollution

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna LACKOVIČOVÁ ◽  
Anna GUTTOVÁ ◽  
Martin BAČKOR ◽  
Peter PIŠÚT ◽  
Ivan PIŠÚT
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Photosynthetic Pigments ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Physiological Status ◽  
Epiphytic Lichens ◽  
Evernia Prunastri ◽  
Epiphytic Lichen ◽  
Lichen Diversity ◽  
Positive Correlations

AbstractThe epiphytic lichen Evernia prunastri is sensitive to air pollution and reacted by total retreat to the worsening of air quality during the peak of SO2 pollution in Central Europe (1950s–1990). Since 1990, after a significant decrease in air pollution, epiphytic lichens recolonized previously polluted areas, including E. prunastri. We investigated the physiological status of E. prunastri, transplanted for six months in 34 sites in the urban area of Bratislava (Slovakia) under current conditions. The content of chlorophylls, cortical and medullar secondary metabolites and soluble proteins were explored. We then examined the relationship of these parameters with the environmental quality status, reflected by the diversity of epiphytic lichens. The results showed that the physiological status of E. prunastri did not change significantly after exposure. Positive correlations were found between lichen diversity in the sampling sites and physiological parameters (photosynthetic pigments and phaeophytinization quotient) in the transplants. Transplants from sampling sites with a greater proportion of nitrophilous lichens displayed a decrease in photosynthetic pigments. Sites where E. prunastri naturally occurred had a lower proportion of nitrophilous species in comparison to sites where E. prunastri was not present. This suggests that the indicator species E. prunastri may also recolonize sites with low eutrophication in urban environments under decreased air pollution, and the information on its presence can help to assess the pressure caused by nitrogen excess.

A review of air pollution and atmospheric deposition dynamics in southern Saxony, Germany, Central Europe

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 671-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Zimmermann ◽  
Herbert Lux ◽  
Willy Maenhaut ◽  
Jörg Matschullat ◽  
Kirsten Plessow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Atmospheric Deposition ◽  
Central Europe

scholarly journals A reassessment of ‘<i>Globigerina bathoniana</i>’ Pazdrowa, 1969 and the palaeoceanographic significance of Jurassic planktic foraminifera from southern Poland

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm B. Hart ◽  
Wendy Hudson ◽  
Christopher W. Smart ◽  
Jarosław Tyszka
Keyword(s):  
Water Column ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Carbonate Sediments ◽  
Calcareous Nannofossils ◽  
Planktic Foraminifera ◽  
Geological Record ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Southern Poland

Abstract. ‘Globigerina Ooze’, Foraminiferal Ooze or Carbonate Ooze as it is now known, is a widespread and highly characteristic sediment of the modern ocean system. Comparable sediments are much less common in the geological record although, as we describe here, a number of Middle Jurassic carbonate sediments with distinctive assemblages from Central Europe fulfil many of the criteria. One important component of these assemblages in the Middle Jurassic is ‘Globigerina bathoniana’ Pazdrowa, 1969, first described from the Bathonian sediments near Ogrodzieniec (Poland). The generic assignment of this species and other coeval Jurassic taxa is discussed. This species and many of the other early planktic foraminifera evolved in the Aragonite ll Ocean, together with the other two oceanic carbonate producers: the calcareous nannofossils and the calcareous dinoflagellates. The preservation of carbonate sediments with abundant planktic foraminifera on the sea floor indicates that, by the mid-Jurassic, the carbonate/aragonite compensation depths (and associated lysoclines) must have developed in the water column.

scholarly journals Invertebrates in contemporary coniferous resins – an insight into the ecosystem?

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Natalia KASZYCA ◽  
◽  
Angelina KUBUSIAK ◽  
Bartosz BARAN ◽  
Arkadiusz IMIELA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Picea Abies ◽  
Pinus Sylvestris ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Ethanol Solution ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Insight Into

A study aiming at the description of invertebrate fauna trapped in contemporary, coniferous resins was undertaken in a mixed forest of Central Europe (Southern Poland). Resins were collected predominately from spruce (Picea abies), but also from pine (Pinus sylvestris) and larch (Larix decidua), the cadavers were extracted from the ethanol solution of resin. As many as 394 specimens were extracted, consisting mainly of insects, but also arachnids, crustaceans and single mollusc were found. Among the collected specimens, some were identified to species, and a few mutual, ecological interrelationships could be traced. Although the amount of collected resins is far from being comparable with the amount of particular types of amber studied in the world so far, the Discussion focuses on similarities and differences in insect inclusions composition in resins and known amber collections.

A dendroclimatological study of east- and west-facing slopes in mountainous areas subjected to strong air pollution (the Sudetes, Central Europe)

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Opała-Owczarek ◽  
Marek Błaś ◽  
Piotr Owczarek ◽  
Mieczysław Sobik ◽  
Michał Godek
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
East And West
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