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Troglomorphic adaptations on the northern European frontier – the phylogeny of the cave Pseudosinella (Hexapoda, Collembola) in the Western Carpathians

I would greatly appreciate you advice how can I complete list of authors for this entry and also make some other specifications.

Thank you,

Lubo Kovac

For example, why is it that in Europe, where environmental policy has been one of the priorities for several years, deforestation, logging, cutting down old-growth forests in natural forests in the Carpathian Mountains has been going on on a large scale in some countries?

In Europe, where environmental policy is taken seriously and is one of the priorities in recent years, afforestation of areas has begun to outweigh deforestation. This is in line with climate and environmental policy, against the ongoing process of global warming. Unfortunately, however, there are serious sad exceptions to this rule. Currently, according to Greenpeace, an area of 5 soccer fields is disappearing every hour throughout the Carpathians. According to what Greenpeace reports, in some countries only 3 percent of the natural forests of the Carpathians are legally protected from investments like road construction. In the country where I operate, thanks to the intervention of people who care about conservation, it was possible to defend the natural forests of the Bieszczady National Park from predatory logging by a government-controlled company that manages most of the country's forests. A company that has the issue of nature conservation and forest biodiversity written into its internal regulations as a priority function. But realistically this function is not treated as a priority. Thanks to the intervention in the bodies of the European Union, thanks to grassroots social movements, thanks to the activities of Greenpeace, it was possible to defend the natural forests, including the National Park in the Bieszczady Mountains from predatory pseudo-forest management. Thanks to the defense of the Bieszczady Mountains, nature in the Bieszczady Mountains is reviving. In addition, some 300 social grassroots movements to defend the natural forests in the Carpathians have since sprung up. Accordingly, the company that manages most of the country's forests have it written into their norms that social and natural functions come first and economic functions last. And in recent years these relationships have been turned on their head. According to what is reported by Greenpeace Poland, currently the natural forests in Poland are treated by the government-controlled forest management company primarily as a source of money for all sorts of social, economic and political ventures and the issues of nature conservation, in addition to natural forests, landscape parks and national parks, protection of the natural biodiversity of forest ecosystems is at the end and in many aspects realistically there is none at all. The revenue of the company that manages most of the country's forests where I operate in 2022 has increased by more than half from 10 billion zlotys to more than 15 billion zlotys. This gives food for thought. In 2022, a fund controlled by an organized political group allied with the government is credited with PLN 3 billion. This fund is used to finance various pre-election goals, including those that have nothing to do with forest conservation, protection of the biodiversity of natural forest ecosystems. And yet forests, including natural forests, whose ecosystems have developed over thousands or millions of years, are a very important factor also in protecting the climate from the ongoing process of global warming. Deforestation of forest areas accelerates the progressive process of global warming. A In the entire Carpathian Mountains (which together are found in the area of several countries in Europe), an area of 5 soccer fields disappears every hour.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

For the research project we are looking for additional information about the highest settlements in the Carpathians of four countries (Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia)!

The specimens in the photo come from the upper Cretaceous part of the sediments from the Polish Outer Carpathians. They resamble A. mayaroensis, but in the assemblage the specimens were found in no other Maastrichtian index taxa were found. Also, all the forams are not well preserved, so there's a change I missed something.

I need articles about the Ottoman Bronze Age culture in the Carpathian area

In the volcanic-sedimentary sequence (teschenite association, Outer Western Carpathians), layers of very fine-grained sediment with an extremely high microcline content (up to 80%, the rest is calcite) were found in shales in close contact with the effusive volcanic (highly altered mygdaloidal trachybasalt?). Feldspar is up to 5 μm in size, hypidiomorphic to idiomorphic. The rock lies clearly outside the volcanic body, but is also finely amygdaloidal.

Is it possible that it is a sediment from hydrothermal activity or what is it about ??? Is there any literature on similar rocks?

Dear All, I'm looking for (mainly recent) papers about MIS 9 paleoclimate in the Carpathian Basin or from East-Central Europe. Any suggestions?

As reworked organic matter I mean a preexisting sedimentary organic matter derived form the erosion and redeposotion of older sedimentary rocks. I have petrographic and geochemical results of reworked organic matter from the Carpathian rocks (Apline orogeny) and I like to compare my results with others.

The enigmatic structure is indicated by the yellow arrows (look at the photo). The scale bar is in centimetres. I'm not sure what it could be. It was found in carbonate sediments of Upper Jurassic from the Carpathian Foreland of Southern Poland. Thanks!

Flowers, receptacle and involucre looks like Crepis / Sonchus, The leaves are somewhat stiff, have margins with spikes like in Cirsium. Pappus snow white, entire (not pennate). 

150-170 cm high.

Region: The Carpathians.

Does somebody know who is I. E. Vikhanskaya?

Her full name would be enough (id.est. what are I. E. ?), 

She has 2 publication published by Uzhgorod University.

These are:

Vikhanskaya, I. E. 1961: Some data on wild bees pollinating arboreous and herbaceous plants in the Transcarpathians. — Doklady Soobshch. Uzhgorod. Univ., Biol. (Uzhgorod), 4: 42—44  

Vikhanskaya, I. E. 1964: On bees pollinating orchards in the Trancarpathians; pp. 17-19. — In: FASULATI, K. K. (ed.). The Ecology of Insects and Other Invertebrates in the Soviet Carpathians. The Inter-College Conference ([Uzhgorod], October 1964). Proceedings. — 100 pp.; Uzhgorod (Uzhgorod State University) 

One of the reviewers of my new paper on forest ant communities in western Carpathians (Central Europe) stated, that there is not a litter ant fauna in the temperate zone forest. That was something I did not expect to hear, regarding a number of species that can be found in European forest leaf-litter layer including Stenamma debile, Temnothorax crassispinus, T. parvulus, Myrmecina graminicola, which I always considerd to be litter species. Then I started to realize, that they really dont have to be strict litter dwellers, and might simply belong to epi- or even hypogeic species. I would really appreciate to see some more opinions on this topic.