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Povzetek: : Phenological events are good indicators of the effects of climate change, since phenological phases are sensitive to changes in environmental conditions. Although several national phenological networks monitor the phenology of different plant species, direct observations can only be conducted on individual trees, which cannot be easily extended over large and continuous areas. Remote sensing has often been applied to model phenology for large areas, focusing mostly on pure forests in which it is relatively easier to match vegetation indices with ground observations. In mixed forests, phenology modelling from remote sensing is often limited to land surface phenology, which consists of an overall phenology of all tree species present in a pixel. The potential of remote sensing for modelling the phenology of individual tree species in mixed forests remains underexplored. In this study, we applied the seasonal midpoint (SM) method with MODIS GPP to model the start of season (SOS) and the end of season (EOS) of six different tree species in Slovenian mixed forests. First, substitute locations were identified for each combination of observation station and plant species based on similar environmental conditions (aspect, slope, and altitude) and tree species of interest, and used to retrieve the remote sensing information used in the SM method after fitting the best of a Gaussian and two double logistic functions to each year of GPP time series. Then, the best thresholds were identified for SOS and EOS, and the results were validated using cross-validation. The results show clearly that the usual threshold of 0.5 is not best in most cases, especially for estimating the EOS. Despite the difficulty in modelling the phenology of different tree species in a mixed forest using remote sensing, it was possible to estimate SOS and EOS with moderate errors as low as <8 days (Fagus sylvatica and Tilia sp.) and <10 days (Fagus sylvatica and Populus tremula), respectively.
Ključne besede: phenology modelling, start of season, end of season, remote sensing, MODIS GPP, vegetation indices, threshold methods
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Ključne besede: društva, Pro Silva Slovenija, sonaravno gospodarjenje, gozdarstvo, gozdovi
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Povzetek: Background: Hypoxia correlates with poor prognosis in several cancer types, including lung cancer. Prolyl hydroxylase domain proteins (PHDs) play a role in cell oxygen sensing, negatively regulating the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) pathway. Our study aim was to evaluate PHD1, PHD2 and PHD3 mRNA expression levels in primary tumours and normal lungs of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and to correlate it with selected regulators of HIF signalling, with clinicopathological characteristics and overall survival (OS). Methods: Tumour tissue samples were obtained from 60 patients with surgically resected NSCLC who were treated with radical surgery. In 22 out of 60 cases, matching morphologically normal lung tissue was obtained. PHD1, PHD2 and PHD3 mRNA expressions were measured using RT-qPCR. Results: The PHD1 and PHD2 mRNA levels in primary tumours were significantly decreased compared to those in normal lungs (both p < 0.0001). PHD1 and PHD2 expression in tumours was positively correlated (rs = 0.82; p < 0.0001) and correlated well with HIF pathway downstream genes HIF1A, PKM2 and PDK1. Decreased PHD1 and PHD2 were associated with larger tumour size, higher tumour stage (PHD1 only) and squamous cell carcinoma. Patients with low PHD1 and patients with low PHD2 expression had shorter OS than patients with high PHD1 (p = 0.02) and PHD2 expression (p = 0.01). PHD1 showed borderline independent prognostic values in multivariate analysis (p = 0.06). In contrast, we found no associations between PHD3 expression and any of the observed parameters. Conclusions: Our results show that reduced expression of PHD1 and PHD2 is associated with the development and progression of NSCLC. PHD1 could be further assessed as a prognostic marker in NSCLC.
Ključne besede: non-small-cell lung carcinoma, prognosis, non-small cell lung cancer, mRNA expression, prolyl hydroxylase domain proteins
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Povzetek: Stanje ohranjenosti sestojev habitatnega tipa 91E0* Obrečna vrbovja, jelševja in jesenovja (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) je v Sloveniji precej zaskrbljujoče. V Sloveniji je bilo njegovo stanje ocenjeno kot slabo, trend pa negativen, kar pomeni dodatno možnost poslabšanja. Omenjeni gozdni habitatni tip sodi med prioritetne ali prednostne habitatne tipe, za katere je predvidena posebna skrb Evropske skupnosti. Zaradi njegove majhnosti in fragmentiranosti je pogosto spregledan in tudi neustrezno obravnavan. Z namenom, da bi izboljšali njegovo prepoznavnost in spoznali njegove značilnosti na terenu, smo mu v okviru LIFE integriranega projekta za okrepljeno upravljanje Nature 2000 v Sloveniji namenili posebno pozornost. V raziskavi smo z uporabo metode terenskega kartiranja podrobneje proučili stanje sestojev habitatnega tipa 91E0* v območju Natura 2000 Ličenca pri Poljčanah. Na tak način smo ugotovili, kakšna je površina sestojev tega habitatnega tipa in jo primerjali z obstoječimi conami habitatnega tipa 91E0*. Ugotavljali smo pojavljanje ključnih drevesnih vrst oz. drevesno sestavo sestojev, njihovo pomlajevanje ter vrste pritiskov in groženj za habitatni tip 91E0* na tem območju. Izmed različnih znanih podtipov habitatnega tipa 91E0* smo na tem območju našli predvsem podtip nižinsko črnojelševje, pa tudi fragmente podtipa vrbovja s topolom. Ponekod so se tudi v gozdu pojavljali manjši sestoji vrb in ozkolistnega jesena. Ugotovili smo, da površine sestojev habitatnega tipa 91E0* na območju Natura 2000 Ličenca pri Poljčanah dejansko zavzemajo le približno četrtino površine obstoječih con habitatnega tipa. Analiza drevesne sestave sestojev je pokazala predvsem vraščanje smreke v sestojih črnojelševja, le-ta naravno ni prisotna v tem habitatnem tipu. Ugotovili smo, da je na proučevanem območju pomlajevanje črne jelše zelo okrnjeno. Na slabšanje stanja sestojev črnojelševja še dodatno vplivajo različni pritiski in grožnje, kot so bližina kmetijskih površin, odpadki, fragmentacija sestojev črnojelševja, širjenje invazivnih tujerodnih rastlin, vodne regulacije, bližina prometnic, izsuševanje rastišč idr. Stanje ohranjenosti sestojev tega habitatnega tipa je bilo posledično v večini primerov ocenjeno kot neugodno do slabo. Z namenom, da bi se stanje obrečnih gozdov na območju Ličence pri Poljčanah izboljšalo, smo v prispevku predlagali nekaj konkretnih ohranitvenih ukrepov
Ključne besede: habitatni tip, črnojelševje, obrečni gozdovi, terensko kartiranje, stanje ohranjenosti, Alnus glutinosa, Natura 2000
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Ključne besede: senčne knjižnice, odprti dostop, znanstveno založništvo
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