A case of cannibalism in Podarcis siculus campestris De Betta, 1857 (Reptilia, Lacertidae)

Author(s): Mauro Grano | Augusto Cattaneo
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Year: 2011

Some aspects on the reproductive cycle of European conger eel, Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) (Osteichthyes, Anguilliformes, Congridae) captured from Western Algerian coasts: a histological description of spermatogenesis

Author(s): Abi-ayad Sidi-Mohammed El-Amine
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Year: 2011

Notes on the distribution of Castnia invaria penelope Schaufuss, 1870 (Lepidoptera, Castniidae)

Author(s): Roberto Vinciguerra
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Year: 2011

A new subspecies of Perotis lugubris Fabricius, 1777 from Southern Italy (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

Author(s): Francesco Izzillo | Ignazio Sparacio
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Year: 2011

INTRODUCTION A National park is an area set aside by a national government for the preservation of the natural environment. The World Conservation Union defines a National park as a natural area designated to protect the ecological integrity of one or more ecosystems for present and future generations. In Pakistan, the earlier ecological studies were generally observational. The earlier studies, generally appeared in 1950’s, were confined to visual description of the vegetation, and no attempts were made to recognize community types and to correlate them with the relevant environmental factors. On the contrary, advanced multivariate techniques of ordination and cluster analysis had been routinely used in Europe and other parts of the world. There are numerous ordination methods accessible in plant bionetwork, some of which have been extensively used, e.g. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) (Hill & Gauch, 1980), whereas some others only sporadically used (Zhang, 2004). A series of studies using different ordination techniques were carried out in Pakistan by Ahmad et al., 2009; Ahmad, 2009; Jabeen & Ahmad, 2009; Pirzada et al., 2009; Ahmad et al., 2010a, b; Ahmad, 2011. In Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) the floristic statistics and the environmental variables can be assimilated within the ordination (Kashian et al., 2003). Within the Ayubia National Park, the study area was the moist temperate forest in Rawalpindi, NE-Pakistan (Fig. 1), showing a high diversity of susceptible plant and animal species. The geographical location of the park is 330° 52' N and 730° 90' E (Farooque, 2002). The aim of this research was to quantify the vegetation in Ayubia National Park using ordination techniques and to determine the soilvegetation relationship to provide basic awareness for preservation of nationally significant native flora. A list of plant species present in the study area is provided in Table 1. Apart from their importance from ecological point of view few species are used as medicinal herbs by local inhabitants. Observed biodiversity of occuring species indicate that this area can be used for conservation of native flora. Exploring the vegetation dynamics and community assemblage in Ayubia National Park, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, using CCA

Author(s): Sheikh Saeed Ahmad | Qurat Ul Ann
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Year: 2011

A check list of the freshwater algal flora of Sierra Leone, Tropical West Africa. I. Cyanophyceae to Conjugatophyceae (exclusive of Bacillariophyceae)

Author(s): Silvia Alfinito
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Year: 2011

Crocidura sicula Miller, 1900 (Mammalia, Soricidae): a possible new record from Comino island (Maltese Islands)

Author(s): Gaetano Aloise | Giovanni Amori
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Year: 2011

Does diet in lacertid lizards reflect prey availability? Evidence for selective predation in the Aeolian wall lizard, Podarcis raffonei (Mertens, 1952) (Reptilia, Lacertidae)

Author(s): Pietro Lo Cascio
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year: 2011

Threatened freshwater and terrestrial molluscs (Mollusca, Gastropoda et Bivalvia) of Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil: check list and evaluation of regional threats

Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year: 2011

Observations on the genus Athis Hübner, [1819] and description of a new species from Peru (Lepidoptera, Castniidae)

Author(s): Roberto Vinciguerra
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year: 2011

Contribution to the Knowledge of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Kenya

Author(s): Vladimir Sakalian
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year: 2011

Genetic diversity analysis of the durum wheat Graziella Ra, Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum (Desf.) Husn. (Poales, Poaceae)

Author(s): M. Stella Colomba | Armando Gregorini
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year: 2011

Description of three new species of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Turkey and Syria

Author(s): Gianfranco Sama
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year: 2011

Exotic molluscs (Mollusca, Gastropoda et Bivalvia) in Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil region: check list and regional spatial distribution

Author(s): A. Ignacio Agudo-Padrón
Volume: 2
Issue: 2
Year: 2011

New records of Testacella scutulum Sowerby, 1821 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Testacellidae) from Southern Italy and Sicily

Author(s): Fabio Liberto
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Year: 2011

Current knowledge on population studies on five continental molluscs (Mollusca, Gastropoda et Bivalvia) of Santa Catarina State (SC, Central Southern Brazil region)

Author(s): A. Ignacio Agudo-Padrón
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Year: 2011

New ecological and taxonomical data on some Ptenoglossa (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) from the Gulf of Catania (Ionian Sea)

Author(s): Danilo Scuderi
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Year: 2011

On the increasing occurrence of the Bluespotted Cornetfish Fistularia commersonii (Rüppel, 1838) in the Central Mediterranean (Osteichthyes, Fistulariidae)

Author(s): Alan Deidun
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Year: 2011

INTRODUCTION After fourteen years of pioneering systematic work spanning from 1996 to 2010, carried out in the territory of Santa Catarina State, SC, within the Brazilian Southern region, framed in the socalled Atlantic Slope of the Southern Cone of South America (Agudo-Padrón, 2008a), a basic list of continental (land and freshwater) and marine mollusc species was compiled. Besides constant interactions and consultations with numerous national and international specialists, such a list was mostly based on available literature and/or analyses of voucher specimens deposited in collections belonging to research centers or environmental education institutes. To date (up to the first semester of 2010), this list comprises a total of 878 taxa (species and subspecies, including 695 marine and 183 continental forms), and these numbers are likely to increase as field surveys ensue. In the present study, results obtained from the author’s active participation in three recent regional field sampling expeditions dealing with marine and continental mollusc taxa, are reported. I. Official State program for listing and control of invasive exotic species Starting from November 2009, and for the first time in the history of Santa Catarina State, the presence of invasive allochthonous mollusc species in Santa Catarina State was studied and discussed through the organisation of seminars by the Official Foundation for the Environment of the State of Santa Catarina (Fundação do Meio Ambiente – FATMA) jointly with the Hórus Institute for Development and Environmental Conservation (Instituto Hórus de Desenvolvimento e Conservação Ambiental), with the main goal to compile the Official State List of Species. To date, the occurrence of a total of twenty allochthonous (exotic) forms of mollusc species has been confirmed, 14 Gastropoda and 6 Bivalvia [namely, 11 terrestrial gastropods, 5 freshwater taxa (3 gastropods and 2 bivalves) and 4 marine bivalves]. Taking into account the contributions of Agudo & Bleicker (2006a), Agudo-Padrón (2008b) and Agudo-Padrón & Lenhard (2010), the slug Pallifera sp. - the taxonomic determination of which is still in process (Thomé et al., 2006) - was included within such a list. Of these twenty Mollusca and environmental conservation in Santa Catarina State (SC, Southern Brazil): current situation

Author(s): A. Ignacio Agudo-Padrón
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Year: 2011

New corological and biological data of the Red Gum Lerp Psyllid, Glycaspis brimblecombei Moore, 1964 in Italy (Hemiptera, Psyllidae)

Author(s): Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo | Ricardo Jiménez-Peydró
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Year: 2011

Molecular analysis of Muticaria syracusana and M. neuteboomi from Southeastern Sicily, Italy (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae)

Author(s): M. Stella Colomba
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-4
Year: 2010

Notes on new or rare taxa of Crustaceans and Molluscs from a “fontanile” in Arzago d'Adda, Bergamo, Italy (Crustacea, Mollusca)

Author(s): Enrico Pezzoli
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-4
Year: 2010

Longhorn beetles of the Ficuzza woods (W Sicily, Italy) and their relationship with plant diversity (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

Author(s): Tommaso La Mantia
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-4
Year: 2010

New faunistic records of Jewel beetles from Southern Italy and Sardinia (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

Author(s): Francesco Izzillo
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-4
Year: 2010