Spatial distribution and anthropogenic threats facing medicinal plant Zanthoxylum chalybeum in Simanjiro Area, Northern Tanzania.

Knob wood (Zanthoxylum chalybeum - Rutaceae) is a medicinal plant species subject to heavy exploitation throughout its areas of occurrence in Sub-Saharan Africa.Despite that the tree has different values as a traditional herb, there is a gap in understanding its current distribution and anthropogenic threats in its range areas.This study aimed at m

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Distribution of Sorex minutus and Sorex araneus (Mammalia: Insectivora) within a forest area in Western Norway

We collected shrews using pitfall traps in a forest area in Kvam, Hordaland, Western Norway in 1997- 98.Altogether, 205 individuals Cot Mobile of pygmy shrew, Sorex minutus and 129 individuals of common shrew, Sorex araneus were collected.Both shrew species occurred over a wide range of forest types.Common shrew was absent in bogs and pygmy shrew a

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