Eurasian Journal of Forest Science

19-25

Authors: Ece Sevgi1, Çağla Kızılarslan-Hançer1, Hatice Yılmaz2, Muhammet Akkaya3

Proboscidea louisianica (Miller) Thell. (Martyniaceae) is reported as a new alien species for the flora of Turkey. A plant species with different and interesting fruits was photographed in 2016. During a field investigation, a population of P. louisianica consisting of ca. 25 individuals was found at roadside between Biga and Karabiga town, district of Çanakkale, and plant specimens with flowers were collected in 2017. After detailed literature studies, this species was identified as Proboscidea louisianica. The family Martyniaceae is represented by just 1 genus with 1 taxa (Ibicella lutea (Lindl.) Van Eselt.) in Turkey and no member of the genus Proboscidea has been recorded before. In this paper, the species was introduced with taxonomical and morphological features. Its ecological impact was also evaluated with potential risks.

44-69

Authors: Raj Shekhar Singh1*, Iqbal Ansari2, Ranjeet Kumar Singh2, Shailendra Kumar Singh3, Debjit Pal4

Medicinal plant plays a crucial role in the socio-economic development and maintaining the human health and culture. Naturally, plant-derivative drugs have an imperative position in both traditional and modern medicine. Jharkhand is rich in biodiversity of medicinal plants. The forest area covers about 30.29% of the total area of Jharkhand. The extensive use of such medicinal plants is nowadays being adopted by almost all the developing and developed countries as therapeutic purpose. It is used to heal various diseases and also prevents the ill effects of synthetic drugs. The main objectives of this article are to identify selected native medicinal properties found in the native forest of Jharkhand and maintain the plants under ex-situ conservation Park for socio-economic development of the tribal which has been used for multipurpose curative applications and their value addition for different diseases. In the current article a total of 41medicinal plants have been selected for study and documented to their therapeutic use against various types of diseases frequently occurred in tribal dominating mining areas at coal capital of the country located at CSIR-CIMFR, Dhanbad in Jharkhand state of India.

79-86

Authors: Abdullah YİNANÇ1

In order to achieve sustainable goals, the detection and application of methods, which could reduce or bar waste of water, wastewater and waste electricity, are very important in establishing techniques and systems which could be used to combine social and economic aims with ecological needs. The wastewater of university is a kind of domestic wastewater, and at least 60% of the total wastewater usage consists of grey water, and this water will be reused. Domestic wastewater will primarily be collected in 2 different systems. These could be two side by side piping systems, as well as a different system to be obtained by passing a smaller diameter pipe through the same pipe. As material in this system; Waste water storage tank, "discontinuous suction and force pump", A different suction pipe for negative purposes and all kinds of materials, All the equipment of the existing wastewater treatment plant will be used. The more the demands and standards of environment rise, the more necessary it has become to figure out and apply effectively different and innovative solutions. Particularly, it is really important for the countries or cities whose foundation of facilities or running those facilities cost a lot to be able to reuse wastewater. For example, the need for water increased by 45% in Istanbul (Turkey) and increased by 20 % in Sydney (Australia) and 14, 8 % in Monterrey (Mexico) in the last ten years (2008, OECD research). It is seen that, in the countries where tourism has developed, the usage of electricity overnight is between 3-6 kWh per bed and water 600-1300 liters per bed. Ultra-refining, combined purification and transmission technology (membrane, UV, transmission by vacuum etc.) which have been reconstructed and used after the 1990s, have been researched within the scope of the present study. Reactivating the existing water purification system at Namık Kemal University central campus, which is convenient for daily usage in the summer months, and ultra refining method purified from bacteria and utility of the systems that are determined to use in the transfer of wastewater, have been presented comparatively in the present research.

8-12

Authors: H. Barış TECİMEN1,2

Land use is recently being taken in consider among ecologists thus the global imbalances of biological and mineral aspects on earth raised and have been retaining since last century with births of undescribed and introduced problematic issues. One of the most threatening effect of those global problems is extinction of food and water resources. Soil utilization, land management practices, source (land properties containing above and below ground resources) based features are the main marks of land use issue. Within this study, (i) what extend does the land use change effect the nitrogen content in soil and freshwater systems, (ii) microbial agents’ effects on phosphorus sources, (iii) environmental threatens and anxieties of improper land use are questioned. The results revealed that, both nitrogen and phosphorus elemental cycles are interrupted by abrupt changes at land uses, while, sustainability of resource management and controls at microbial level might highly be subsidiary to solution of land use sourced degradations.

29-34

Authors: Sevinç Adiloğlu1, Korkmaz Bellitürk1, Yusuf Solmaz1, Ali Zahmacıoğlu1, Arıkan Kocabaş2, Aydın Adiloğlu1

In this study, the effects of the increasing doses of vermicompost implementation [0 % (VC1), 3 % (VC2), 5 % (VC3), 7 % (VC4)] on some heavy metal contents of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) have been investigated. With the increasing doses of vermicompost implementation, Cr, Co, Cd, Ni and Pb contents of cucumber decreased. While the Cr content of cucumber is 65.94 mg/kg with the implementation of VC1 (control) dose, it decreases to 20.58 mg/kg with VC4 dose. The plant’s Co, Cd, Ni and Pb contents decreases with the increasing doses of vermicompost implementation, as well, VC1-VC4 doses of vermicompost are determined for Co, Cd, Ni and also Pb as 7.66-2.09, 1.05-0.71, 47.93- 14.57 and also 15.68- 5.01 mg/kg respectively. These results revealed that vermicompost can be used as a fertilization program to protect the plant’s quality and to eliminate its heavy metal contents. On the other hand, the use of organic fertilizers such as vermicompost should be extended for the maintenance of soil productivity.