WINTER ACTIVITY OF THE SNAKE-EYED LIZARD OPHISOPS ELEGANS (REPTILIA: LACERTIDAE) IN THE NORTHWESTERNMOST PART OF ITS RANGE

Winter activity of the snake-eyed lizard Ophisops elegans (Reptilia: Lacertidae) in the northwesternmost part of its range

There is a lack of information for potential winter activity of the snake-eyed lizard Ophisops elegans in Europe, where it has a limited distribution.To test the hypothesis that this species 6KS can be active during the winter months, two locations in Bulgaria were chosen.The visits were conducted in January, February and December 2022 near the vil

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Research on the Evolution Characteristics and Dynamic Simulation of Habitat Quality in the Southwest Mountainous Urban Agglomeration from 1990 to 2030

In the context of promoting high-quality development of mountainous urban areas, it is of great Quickstrikes significance to explore the evolutionary trajectory of habitat quality in the future based on policy-driven backgrounds, particularly for the protection of the Western mountainous ecosystem.This study takes the Chongqing metropolitan area, a

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PARAMETERS OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE POLITICAL CENTER OF RUSSIA ON THE OUTLYING TERRITORIES IN THE IMPERIAL PERIOD

The article discusses the ways and mechanisms of the influence of the political center of the empire on the imperial outskirts.A feature of the imperial administrative system in Russia was its absolutist character.For this reason, all existing imperial state bodies that had the right to rule-making carried out delegated rulemaking, approved and all

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A note on computing average state occupation times

Objective: This review discusses how biometricians would probably compute or estimate expected waiting times, if they had the data.Methods: Our framework is a time-inhomogeneous Markov multistate model, where all Pest control transition hazards are allowed to be time-varying.We assume that the cumulative transition hazards are given.That is, they a

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