MONITORING OF DEFOLIATION IN FOREST STANDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND ITS COMPARISON WITH RESULTS OF DEFOLIATION MONITORING IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

As a part of International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effect on Forests (ICP Forests), defoliation of forest stands has been assessed in the Czech Republic since 1986.Defoliation is one of the principal parameters reflecting the health of forest stands that is assessed on monitoring plots within this program

This paper analyses landscape representativeness within the ecological corridor network tzora feather light scooter linking Natura 2000 areas in Poland.The criteria used to designate the network did not include landscape representativeness.Nevertheless, the selection of areas covered by the network was found to be adequate to preserve landscape div

One of the essential attributes of the epoch we live in is the absolute and percentage growth of the elderly in the composition of the population.The numerical growth of the elderly population is the result of effective control of diseases with hae43ec high mortality, which minimized premature mortality, which meant that an increasing number of peo

Geological materials usually contaminated with 6-0 igora vibrance naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) have become a focus of great attention.The radioactivity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in some ornamental stones in Egypt, were measured using a high-resolution gamma ray spectrometer.The natural radionuclide contents, (Ra) eq