Seven papers, published between 2015 and 2018, present some results from the smallFOREST project : * Habitat properties are key drivers of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. prevalence in Ixodes ricinus populations of deciduous forest fragments. Ehrmann, S., Ruyts, S.C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Brunet, J., Cousins, S.A.O., Deconchat, M., Decocq, G., Frenne, P.D., Smedt, P.D., Diekmann, M., Gallet-Moron, […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on smallFOREST publicationTwelve papers related to the smallFOREST project have been published between 2013 and 2017 : * Molecular identification of novel phlebovirus sequences in European ticks. Prinz, M., Fuchs, J., Ehrmann, S., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Kochs, G., Panning, M. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases 8, 795-798 / DOI : 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.06.005 Abstract : In recent years the number of […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Related papersJaan Liira, partner from Tartu University (Estonia), just published two papers from local activity which also targets on the ecosystem provision group at forest margins in agricultural landscape: Kalda O; Kalda R; Liira J Multi-scale ecology of insectivorous bats in agricultural landscapes http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016788091400437X Kalda R; Kalda, O; Lõhmus K; Liira J Multi-scale ecology of woodland […]
Continue Reading... No Comments.All the partners will meet in Freiburg, from September 30th to October 2nd, for the smallFOREST General Assembly.
Continue Reading... Comments Off on General Assembly in FreiburgIn its last newsletter (2014, March), EFI (European Forest Institute) talks about the future of european forest governance, including the provision of forest services through smallFOREST project. Read the article – page 14
Continue Reading... No Comments.The public meetings, organized by the french team from University of Picardy (Unit Edysan) in Northern France, end yesterday.
Continue Reading... No Comments.All the partners met in Toulouse (France), on November 20th to 22th, for the smallFOREST General Assembly. During this annual meeting, they drew up a review of this second year of work and planned the work to do next : In a first part of the project (WP1), all forest patches in the sixteen landscape […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on smallFOREST General Assembly 2013The WP5 begins… The Belgian team and the North of France team are conducting a survey, supervised by the team of The Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia, to local people to get their perception of wood and their environment. In addition to this survey, information meetings for local people, medias … are organized. An real […]
Continue Reading... Comments Off on Beginning of the WP5The annual FLEUR network meeting took place in Bremen, Germany, from April 11th to 13th.
Continue Reading... Comments Off on FLEUR network meeting 2013WP1 The first year of fieldwork is almost over. Overall, the planned work has been completed, with some exceptions. The incorporation of the collected data in the geodatabase (a complete list of vascular plant species per patch per window + relative abundance data of species for each sampling point per patch per window, for all patches of all windows) […]
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