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  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,875 Views
22 Pages

Oak Decline Caused by Biotic and Abiotic Factors in Central Europe: A Case Study from the Czech Republic

  • Markéta Macháčová,
  • Oto Nakládal,
  • Michal Samek,
  • Daniel Baťa,
  • Václav Zumr and
  • Vítězslava Pešková

2 August 2022

Oak decline presenting symptoms of tracheomycosis have been observed globally over long periods of time. Since the 1990s, oak decline has been considered to be a multifactorial process where abiotic predisposing factors play a significant role. Never...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecology and Management of Forest Pests)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,755 Views
19 Pages

9 January 2025

Subcortical beetle communities interact with a wide range of semiochemicals released from different sources, including trees, fungi, and bark beetle pheromones. While the attraction of bark beetles, their insect predators, and competitors to bark bee...

(This article belongs to the Collection Biology and Control of the Invasive Wood-Boring Beetles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,279 Views
13 Pages

Acetylcholinesterase is one of the most important enzymes in living organisms, which is responsible for the synapse cholinergic and other nervous processes. However, its inhibiting effects have proven to have pharmacological applications in the treat...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,006 Views
18 Pages

Mountain Landscape Dynamics after Large Wind and Bark Beetle Disasters and Subsequent Logging—Case Studies from the Carpathians

  • Vladimír Falťan,
  • František Petrovič,
  • Marián Gábor,
  • Vladimír Šagát and
  • Matej Hruška

27 September 2021

High winds and the subsequent infestation of subcortical insect are considered to be the most extensive types of large natural disturbances in the Central European forests. In this paper, we focus on the landscape dynamics of two representative mount...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–Environment Interactions Research Using Remote Sensing)