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2018
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Alexandra Kruse Naja Marot Zlata Dolacek Alduk Karl Benediktsson Michele Bottarelli Paolo Brito Csaba Centeri Sebastian Eiter Bohumil Frantál Marina Frolova Bénédicte Gaillard Viktor Grónás Maunu Häyrynen Veronica Hernández-Jiménez Richard Hewitt Marcel Hunziker Róbert Kabai Isidora Karan Malgorzata Lachowska Stanislav Martinat Georgios Martinopoulos Nieves Mestre Slobodan B. Mickovski David Miller Pia Otte José Rafael Morenes Munoz-Rochas Sina Röhner Michael Roth Olaf Schroth Alessandra Sconamiglio Mateusz Slupinski Sven Stremke Na'ama TeschnerAbstract
The COST RELY Glossary on Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality is the result of the European COST RELY project that focused on investigating the influence of renewable energy production on landscape quality. 31 people participated in developing and revising the definitions and descriptions for the 46 terms included in the glossary. Work was done in the period from 2015 to 2017 in multiple rounds of revision done by the RELY experts. Terms in the glossary are clustered into three groups: first group terms are directly connected to the landscape and its characteristics, the second one touches the planning process and methods, and the last one covers different renewable energy sources and production types. Each entry to the glossary consists of six elements: the term, definition, related terms, keywords, illustration(s) and sources. The terms are based on the expert knowledge of the contributors, scientific literature (monographs and articles), EU regulation, relevant web pages and other useful sources, stated in the Reference section. At the end of the glossary, terms are translated into 28 European languages including Esperanto. The glossary targets the researchers from the field, policy makers, local communities, investors in the sector of renewable energy and NGOs concerned with the matter in order to assure that people from different educational background and profession understand and use the term in the same manner. Beside from internal Action use, the terms shall contribute to existing glossaries on the relevant topics.
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Anita SønstebyAbstract
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Nicholas ClarkeAbstract
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Inge Stupak Tat Smith Nicholas Clarke Niclas Scott Bentsen Virginia Dale Jinke van Dam Rocio Diaz-Chavez Ulrike Eppler Uwe Fritsche Martyn Futter Jianbang Gan Kaija Hakala Thomas Horschig Martin Junginger Keith Kline Søren Larsen Charles Lalonde Maha Mansoor Thuy P.T. Mai-Moulin Shyam Nair Liviu Nichiforel Marjo Palviainen John Stanturf Kay Schaubach Vita Tilvikiene Brian Titus Daniela Thrän Liisa Ukonmaanaho Maria WellischAbstract
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Jürgen Dengler Viktoria Wagner Iwona Dembicz Itziar García-Mijangos Alireza Naqinezhad Steffen Boch Alessandro Chiarucci Timo Conradi Goffredo Filibeck Riccardo Guarino Monika Janišová Manuel J. Steinbauer Svetlana Aćić Alicia T.R. Acosta Munemitsu Akasaka Marc-Andre Allers Iva Apostolova Irena Axmanová Branko Bakan Alina Baranova Manfred Bardy-Durchhalter Sándor Bartha Esther Baumann Thomas Becker Ute Becker Elena Belonovskaya Karin Bengtsson José Luis Benito Alonso Asun Berastegi Ariel Bergamini Ilaria Bonini Hans Henrik Bruun Vasyl Budzhak Alvaro Bueno Juan Antonio Campos Laura Cancellieri Marta Carboni Cristina Chocarro Luisa Conti Marta Czarniecka-Wiera Pieter De Frenne Balázs Deák Yakiv P. Didukh Martin Diekmann Christian Dolnik Cecilia Duprè Klaus Ecker Nikolai Ermakov Brigitta Erschbamer Adrián Escudero Javier Etayo Zuzana Fajmonová Vivian Astrup Felde Maria Rosa Fernández Calzado Manfred Finckh Georgios Fotiadis Mariano Fracchiolla Anna Ganeva Daniel García-Magro Rosario G. Gavilán Markus Germany Itamar Giladi François Gillet Gian Pietro Giusso del Galdo Jose M. González John-Arvid Grytnes Michal Hájek Petra Hájková Aveliina Helm Mercedes Herrera Eva Hettenbergerová Carsten Hobohm Elisabeth M. Hüllbusch Nele Ingerpuu Ute Jandt Florian Jeltsch Kai Jensen Anke Jentsch Michael Jeschke Borja Jiménez-Alfaro Zygmunt Kacki Kaoru Kakinuma Jutta Kapfer Ali Kavgaci András Kelemen Kathrin Kiehl Asuka Koyama Tomoyo F. Koyanagi Łukasz Kozub Anna Kuzemko Magni Olsen Kyrkjeeide Sara Landi Nancy Langer Lorenzo Lastrucci Lorenzo Lazzaro Chiara Lelli Jan Lepš Swantje Löbel Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga Simona Maccherini Martin Magnes Marek Malicki Corrado Marcenó Constantin Mardari Leslie Mauchamp Felix May Ottar Michelsen Joaquín Molero Mesa Zsolt Molnár Ivan Y. Moysiyenko Yuko K. Nakaga Rayna Natcheva Jalil Noroozi Robin J. Pakeman Salza Palpurina Meelis Pärtel Ricarda Pätsch Harald Pauli Hristo Pedashenko Robert K. Peet Remigiusz Pielech Nataša Pipenbaher Chrisoula Pirini Zuzana Plesková Mariya A. Polyakova Honor C. Prentice Jennifer Reinecke Triin Reitalu Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo Jan Roleček Vladimir Ronkin Leonardo Rosati Ejvind Rosén Eszter Ruprecht Solvita Rusina Marko Sabovljević Ana María Sánchez Galina Savchenko Oliver Schuhmacher Sonja Škornik Marta Gaia Sperandii Monika Staniaszek-Kik Zora Stevanović-Dajić Marin Stock Sigrid Suchrow Laura M. E. Sutcliffe Grzegorz Swacha Martin Sykes Anna Szabó Amir Talebi Cătălin Tănase Massimo Terzi Csaba Tölgyesi Marta Torca Péter Török Béla Tóthmérész Nadezda Tsarevskaya Ioannis Tsiripidis Rossen Tzonev Atushi Ushimaru Orsolya Valkó Eddy van der Maarel Thomas Vanneste Iuliia Vashenyak Kiril Vassilev Daniele Viciani Luis Villar Risto Virtanen Ivana Vitasović Kosić Yun Wang Frank Weiser Julia Went Karsten Wesche Hannah White Manuela Winkler Piotr T. Zaniewski Hui Zhang Yaron Ziv Sergey Znamenskiy Idoia BiurrunAbstract
GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD ID EU-00-003). GrassPlot collects plot records (relevés) from grasslands and other open habitats of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm. It focuses on precisely delimited plots of eight standard grain sizes (0.0001; 0.001; ... 1,000 m²) and on nested-plot series with at least four different grain sizes. The usage of GrassPlot is regulated through Bylaws that intend to balance the interests of data contributors and data users. The current version (v. 1.00) contains data for approximately 170,000 plots of different sizes and 2,800 nested-plot series. The key components are richness data and metadata. However, most included datasets also encompass compositional data. About 14,000 plots have near-complete records of terricolous bryophytes and lichens in addition to vascular plants. At present, GrassPlot contains data from 36 countries throughout the Palaearctic, spread across elevational gradients and major grassland types. GrassPlot with its multi-scale and multi-taxon focus complements the larger international vegetationplot databases, such as the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and the global database “sPlot”. Its main aim is to facilitate studies on the scale- and taxon-dependency of biodiversity patterns and drivers along macroecological gradients. GrassPlot is a dynamic database and will expand through new data collection coordinated by the elected Governing Board. We invite researchers with suitable data to join GrassPlot. Researchers with project ideas addressable with GrassPlot data are welcome to submit proposals to the Governing Board.
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Synnøve RivedalAbstract
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Increasing abundance of Juncus effusus (soft rush) and Juncus conglomeratus (compact rush) in pastures and meadows in western Norway has caused reductions in forage yield and quality in recent decades. Understanding plant development and regrowth following cutting is essential in devising cost-effective means to control rushes. In a field experiment in western Norway, we investigated development of above- and below-ground fractions of rush from seedlings to three-year-old plants, including the impact on vigour of disturbing growth by different cutting frequencies during the period 2009–2012. Each year, the plants were exposed to one or two annual cuts or left untreated and five destructive samplings were performed from March to early December. Juncus effusus showed significantly more vigorous growth than Juncus conglomeratus in the last two years of the study period. The above-ground:below-ground biomass ratio of both species increased mainly in spring and early summer and was reduced in late summer and autumn. Removal of aerial shoots also reduced the below-ground fraction of both species. One annual cut in July effectively reduced biomass production in both species by 30–82%, which was only a slightly smaller reduction than with two annual cuts, in June and August. Mechanical control measures such as cutting can thus effectively reduce rush vigour when performed late in the growing season.
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Viral diseases (a biotic stress) and salinity (an abiotic stress) have been/are the two major constraints for sustainable development of the world’s agricultural production including potato. Crops grown in field are often exposed simultaneously to abiotic and biotic stress, and responses of plants to co-stress by two or more factors may differ from those to each of the multiple stresses. Using in vitro cultures, we demonstrated that virus infection (singly and in combination) or salt, and co-stress by virus infection (singly and in combination) and salt significantly reduced growth and microtuber production, and caused severely oxidative cell damage determined by levels of O2·− and methane dicarboxylic aldehyde, and H2O2 localization in situ. Alterations in physiological metabolism by increasing total soluble sugar and free proline, and by decreasing chlorophyll content are responses of potato plantlets to virus infection (singly and in combination) or salt stress and co-stress by virus infection (singly and in combination) and salt. Oxidative cell damage and reduced chlorophyll content caused by virus and/or salt are believed to be responsible for the reduced growth, eventually resulting in decreased tuber yield. Results reported here would help us to better understand possible mechanism of reduced tuber yield by virus infection and/or salt stress.
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Brian Titus Kendrick Brown Inge Stupak Helja-Sisko Helmisaari Viktor Bruckman Alexander Evans Elena Vanguelova Nicholas Clarke Iveta Varnagiryte-Kabasinskiene Kestutis ArmolaitisAbstract
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