Ecological connectivity of bee communities in fragmented areas of Volcano Etna (Sicily, Italy) at different degrees of anthropogenic disturbance (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) by Salvatore Bella, Roberto Catania, Pierluigi La Greca, Vittorio Nobile, Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi, Vera D'Urso

“…The selected areas include two different urban parks in the city of Catania (Parco Gioeni and Parco degli Ulivi), a Nature Reserve (Complesso Immacolatelle e Micio Conti, San Gregorio di Catania), and an agroecosystem (a citrus orchard, Aci Catena). …”
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WOODLAND MAPPING AT SINGLE-TREE LEVELS USING OBJECT-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) IMAGES by A. Chenari, Y. Erfanifard, M. Dehghani, H. R. Pourghasemi

“…In this study, UAV orthoimagery was classified using object-oriented classification method for mapping a part of wild pistachio nature reserve in Zagros open woodlands, Fars Province, Iran. …”
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Effects of warming on the seedling adaptation and growth of Machilus gamblei in a subtropical forest by Liru Zhao, Qingqiu Zhou, Shuo Cao, Wanjin Liao, Jianping Wu

“…To elucidate how the establishment and physiological characteristics of Machilus gamblei seedlings will respond to future global warming, artificial warming experiments (infrared warming, +0.75 ℃, +1.5 ℃, +3 ℃, +4 ℃) were conducted at the Ailao Mountain National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, China. The responses of seedling establishment and their physiological adaptation to different warming conditions were studied, and the contents of nutrients, chlorophyll, and nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) in the leaves were measured. …”
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In vitro propagation and reintroduction of the endangered Renanthera imschootiana Rolfe. by Kunlin Wu, Songjun Zeng, Danni Lin, Jaime A Teixeira da Silva, Zhaoyang Bu, Jianxia Zhang, Jun Duan

“…Highest percentage survival (79.67%) was observed in Yuanjiang Nature Reserve two years after reintroduction, followed by Huolu Mountain forest park (71.33%). …”
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Soil conditions under great cormorant and grey heron colonies in a wetland: Effect on soil nematode abundance and trophic structure by Dawid Kozacki, Krassimira Ilieva-Makulec, Marek Hryniewicz, Grzegorz Makulec

“…This study aimed to investigate how great cormorants and grey herons affect the density and trophic diversity of soil nematodes under breeding colonies located in Stawy Raszyńskie Nature Reserve (central Poland). Soil samples from the colonies were compared to control samples from adjacent areas unaffected by birds. …”
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Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum by Annabel Wolf, Jonathan Lloyd Baker, Rik Tjallingii, Yanjun Cai, Alexander Osinzev, Mariya Antonosyan, Noel Amano, Kathleen Rose Johnson, Vanessa Skiba, Jeremy McCormack, Ola Kwiecien, Olga Yakovlevna Chervyatsova, Yuri Viktorovich Dublyansky, Roman Saidovich Dbar, Hai Cheng, Sebastian Franz Martin Breitenbach

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A study of the relationship between wetland vegetation communities and water regimes using a combined remote sensing and hydraulic modeling approach by Tan Zhiqiang, Zhang Qi, Li Mengfan, Li Yunliang, Xu Xiuli, Jiang Jiahu

“…For the typical sub-wetlands of the Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve (PLNNR), only the influence of IDU on the distribution of vegetation communities was significant. …”
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Ecosystem service assessment under ecological restoration programs: A systematic review of studies from China by Junyan Liu, Junyan Liu, Jie Du, Chenfeng Zhang, Jindong Zhang, Hongbo Yang, Marion L. Donald, Yan Wu, Tingfa Dong

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Ranging patterns and foraging patch utilization of Assamese macaques inhabiting limestone forests in southwest Guangxi, China by Yuhui Li, Guangzhi Ma, Qihai Zhou, Zhonghao Huang

“…We studied the ranging behavior and foraging patch utilization of Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) in the limestone forest of Nonggang National Nature Reserve, southwest Guangxi, China, using the grid cell method, from September 2012 to August 2013. …”
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Characteristics and Response of Soil-leaf Ecological Stoichiometry of Suaeda Microphylla and Apocynum Pictum Under Different Salt Habitats by Yang Huan, He Xuemin, Reyihan ·Abulizi, Li Jinbao, Hu Qirong, Bahebe Lede

“…[Methods] The euhalophyte Suaeda microphylla and the pseudohalophyte Apocynum pictum were selected from Ebinur Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve. Soil pH value, water content, salinity, available phosphorus, ammonium nitrogen, organic carbon, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, plant leaf organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus were measured in the selected halophytes. …”
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Physiological responses of two common mosses to simulated nitrogen deposition in Jiuzhaigou by Rui LEI, Jiacheng ZOU, Jie DU, Zhuanghai WEN, Zhi LUO, Ningfei LEI

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Research activity induces change in nest position but does not affect nest success in a vulnerable babbler by Lanlan Zhang, Yufeng Wang, Benping Chen, Wenbo Liao, Zhengwang Zhang, Yiqiang Fu

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Herpetofauna of Sevastopol city (southwestern Crimea): species composition, zoogeographic analysis, landscape-zonal distribution, current status and protection by Oleg V. Kukushkin, Alexander G. Trofimov, Ilya S. Turbanov, Victor Ya. Slodkevich

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Elevational pattern of bird species richness and its causes along a central Himalaya gradient, China by Xinyuan Pan, Zhifeng Ding, Yiming Hu, Jianchao Liang, Yongjie Wu, Xingfeng Si, Mingfang Guo, Huijian Hu, Kun Jin

“…This study examines the relative importance of six variables: area, the mid-domain effect, temperature, precipitation, productivity, and habitat heterogeneity on elevational patterns of species richness for breeding birds along a central Himalaya gradient in the Gyirong Valley, the longest of five canyons in the Mount Qomolangma National Nature Reserve. We conducted field surveys in each of twelve elevational bands of 300 m between 1,800 and 5,400 m asl four times throughout the entire wet season. …”
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Effects of Population Bottleneck and Balancing Selection on the Chinese Alligator Are Revealed by Locus-Specific Characterization of MHC Genes by Teng Zhai, Hai-Qiong Yang, Rui-Can Zhang, Li-Ming Fang, Guo-Heng Zhong, Sheng-Guo Fang

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Decreasing genetic connectivity in the endangered tree Magnolia patungensis in fragmented forests by Xiang-Rong Fan, Godfrey K. Wagutu, Xiang-Ying Wen, Shao-Lin Chen, Yan-Ling Liu, Yuan-Yuan Chen

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Snakes are the principal nest predators of the threatened reed parrotbill in a coastal wetland of eastern China by Pan Chen, Taiyu Chen, Bin Liu, Manyu Zhang, Changhu Lu, Yanhong Chen

“…In this study, we monitored reed parrotbill nests in the core area of the Yancheng Nature Reserve, Jiangsu Province, China. We tracked the final fate of each nest and determined the identity of the predators using infrared cameras. …”
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Taxonomic revision of the genus <i>Thereianthus</i> (Iridaceae: Crocoideae) by J. C. Manning, P. Goldblatt

“…Thereianthus: T. bulbiferus Goldblatt & J.C.Manning, known from three populations along the West Coast, is distinguished by the unique development of cormels in the lower leaf axil, and by its actinomorphic perianth with white marks at the base of each tepal and ± declinate stamens; and T. elandsmontanus Goldblatt & J.C.Manning, known from a single population in Elandsberg Nature Reserve near Wellington, has distinctive cream-coloured, moderately long-tubed flowers with unusually narrow, linear tepals heavily marked with purple near the base. …”
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Inter-Specific Variation in the Potential for Upland Rush Management Advocated by Agri-Environment Schemes to Increase Breeding Wader Densities by Leah A. Kelly, David J. T. Douglas, Mike P. Shurmer, Karl L. Evans

“…Across two upland regions of England [South West Peak (SWP) and Geltsdale nature reserve, Cumbria], we surveyed waders over four visits in fields where rush was managed according to AES prescriptions (treatment; n = 21) and fields without rush management that were otherwise ecologically similar (control; n = 22) to assess how the densities of breeding wader pairs respond to rush management in the short-term. …”
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Climate-affected Multi-decadal Variations of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in Pinus tabuliformis Growth Rings by Zhenjiang Li, Ting Wang, Shengyun Liu, Yafeng Yang, Liu Yang, Chenyi Yu, Guanjie Wang, Yi Hui, Zongshan Li, Ximei Li

“…Therefore, tree rings from Pinus tabuliformis (two stem disks and 40 tree cores) were collected in the Taihang Mountain Macaque National Nature Reserve of China. These samples were divided into seven 5-year resolutions over the 34-year period 1985 to 2018. …”
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