Anthina flammea Fr. (Deuteromycota, Fungi) en El Bierzo (León, N.O. España)

Anthina Fr. es un género de hongos mitospóricos del que se conocen unas cinco especies distribuidas por regiones templadas (Ainsworth et al. 1995), y del que se tienen pocos datos en Europa. Por ello, A. flamea Fr. resulta de interés, y debido también a que no había sido catalogada anteriormente para la provincia de León y es desconocida en la mayor parte de España, no existiendo ninguna cita ibéricas anterior a nuestra recolección, ni tampoco en Castilla y León, lo que indica su rareza

SIVIM – das Online-Datenbank-System zur Vegetation der iberischen Halbinsel und der Makaronesischen Inseln

SIVIM (Sistema de Información de la Vegetación Ibérica y Macaronésica) is an information system designed for capturing, hosting, editing, analyzing and outputting georeferenced plot data of Iberian and Macaronesian vegetation. It currently hosts 86,000 relevés, mainly from the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and will grow to 100,000 relevés in the near future. SIVIM has been conceived to offer direct and free on-line access to relevés, tables, as well as to floristic, syntaxonomical and bibliographical records. The system also offers on-line software for edition and analysis of vegetation data. The main characteristics of SIVIM are presented, and its particular technical solutions to typical data banking problems as well as its future objectives are briefly commented.SIVIM ist ein Informationssystem, mit welchem georeferenzierte Daten zur iberischen und makaronesischen Vegetation erfasst, gehostet, editiert, analysiert und ausgegeben werden können. Momentan umfasst das System 86.000 Aufnahmen. In naher Zukunft soll die Anzahl der Aufnahmen auf 100.000 steigen, hauptsächlich durch Daten aus dem Norden der Iberischen Halbinsel und von den Balearen. SIVIM wurde initiiert, um einen direkten, freien Online-Zugang zu Vegetationsaufnahmen, Vegetationstabellen, sowie zu floristischen, syntaxonomischen und bibliographischen Daten anzubieten. Außerdem bietet es Online-Software, um Vegetationsdaten zu editieren und zu analysieren. Dieser Beitrag gibt eine Übersicht über die wesentlichen Eigenschaften von SIVIM und erläutert die implementierten technischen Lösungen typischer Datenbankprobleme sowie die zukünftigen Ziele

Aportaciones a la corología del género Quercus en el Sistema Ibérico meridional

Se aportan citas de varios taxones del género Quercus poco conocidos o novedosos en el extremo meridional del Sistema Ibérico.SUMMARY: New records of several rare taxa of the genus Quercus found in the southern extreme of the Iberian Mountains are here reported

Distribución, ecología y estado de conservación de Tragopogon pseudocastellanus Blanca y Diaz de la Guardia (Asteroceoe).

Distribution, ecology and conservation status of Tragopogon pseudocastellanus Blanca & Díaz de La Guardia (Asteraceae)Palabras clave. Tragopogon, Asteraceae, conservación, fenología, ecología, León, España.Key words. Tragopogon, Asteraceae, conservation, fenology, ecology, León, Spain

Ethnobotanical Research and Compilation of the Medicinal Uses in Spain and the Active Principles of Chiliadenus glutinosus (L.) Fourr. for the Scientific Validation of Its Therapeutic Properties

[EN] The species Chiliadenus glutinosus (L.) Fourr. has a large number of therapeutic uses reported in the traditional Spanish medicine. The growing interest in preserving the ethnopharmacological knowledge related to the botanical diversity existing in Spain and the interest in achieving scientific validation of the therapeutic properties of medicinal species has led to the development of this study. To do it, all the known medicinal uses of Ch. glutinosus in Spain were compiled, then an exhaustive bibliographic research on its chemical composition was carried out, and finally, an in silico validation of the bioactive phytochemicals present in a higher proportion in the essential oil of Ch. glutinosus: camphor, borneol, lucinone, glutinone, quercetin, kutdtriol, and kaempferol; in an attempt to justify the reported traditional uses of the species. It was found that much of the traditional medicinal uses of Ch. glutinosus, along with the biological activity of its phytochemicals, are supported by scientific evidence. The results place this species in a prominent position to initiate possible lines of research to develop new, more effective drugs and improve therapies to treat conditions and diseases that affect the different organic systems of the human being.S

The Last Decade of Marketing Research Streams

The aim of this research is to identify which have been the major streams within the marketing discipline in the last decade (1992-2002). In opposition to other taxonomic proposals, our approach conducts an empirical study through the analysis of co-citations made by articles published in the top journals of the area

Three newly described species of carex sect. fecundae (cyperaceae) from Central America and typification of two related names

Three new species of Carex sect. Fecundae (Cyperaceae) are described from Central America. Carex orothanatica from Costa Rica, Carex siguanabae occurring in El Salvador and Honduras, and Carex via-aquae from Costa Rica and Panama. The three new species are compared with relatives. In addition, two related names, Carex lehmanniana Boott, and C. lehmaniana var. simplex Kük., are lectotypifie

A collaborative digital pedagogy experience in the tMOOC “Step by step”

This research analysed social MOOCs (sMOOCs), which are characterised by the involvement and the interaction of participants in a model based on intercreativity, with the final objective of transferring knowledge by an agile replicating process. The fieldwork focused on the analysis of the sMOOC “Step by Step” of the European Commission-funded Elearning, Communication and Open-data (ECO) Project, which aims to build and apply an innovative pedagogical model for the the training of e-teachers. This sMOOC reaches out to a specific academic community, providing learners with digital competences in order to transform them in e-teachers. The quantitative analysis was done via an online questionnaire. One of the most significant conclusions, which answers the research questions regarding why and how to make a successful sMOOC, is that the design of collaborative activities increases the involvement of learners with the course and the interaction between participants, independent of age but dependent on area of work. This formative process in turn generates transfer of learning together with the embedded pedagogical transformation in e-teachers. This validates the addition of the transferMOOC (tMOOC) model to the existing typologies of MOOCs

Hippuris vulgaris L. en la provincia de Zamora

Hippuris vulgaris L.in Zamora province Palabras clave. Corología, Hippuris, plantas amenazadas, Zamora.Key words. Chorology, Hippuris, threatened species, Zamora

Threatened vascular flora of León province

De los más de 2800 taxones que integran la flora vascular leonesa, 200 se han incluido en esta Lista de la Flora Leonesa amenazada. De ellos 61 forman parte de la Lista Roja de la Flora Vascular Española (que previamente sólo recogía 49 para León). Hemos catalogado hasta el momento 30 taxones vulnerables (VU) y 3 en peligro (EN). Los otros 28 están incluidos en la categoría «datos insuficientes» (DD). Incluimos en este trabajo además otros taxones que por sus peculiaridades pueden considerarse de interés; entre ellos, 38 con una sola población en León y, por ello, sometidos en este territorio a cierto grado de amenaza.The León flora includes more than 2800 taxa, from which we include some two hundred (200) in the Red List of the Leon Flora. 61 of them belong to the Red List of the Spanish Vascular Flora (only 49 formerly). From the 61 taxa, we have labelled 30 as Vulnerable (VU), 3 as Endangered (EN), and 28 as «with Deficient Data» (DD). In this paper, we include also other taxa that can be considered as interesting because of their peculiarities, like 38 taxa showing a sole population in León province, and thus threatened in some degree within this territory