Family Vespidae considered as Widespread globally and belong to the order
Hymenoptera called wasps, It contains about 5000 species belong to six subfamilies.
Members of this family differ in terms of style of living and life cycle and the type of
diet. Colors overlap between the black and yellow or red, yellow or three together.
This study examined six species belong to the four genera (Vespa, Vespula, Poistes,
Delta) and three sub-families are: Sub.Fam. Vespinae, Sub.Fam. Polistinae, Sub.Fam.
Eumeninae, gathered from many different areas of the province of Latakia
environment (15 area) from altitudes ranging from sea level to a height of 1000
meters, over a period of time it extends from April through October of 2015.
This study aims to construct a mathematical model to calculate the form factor of
Palestine Oak Maquis grown on the eastern versants of coastal mountains. The form factor
model can help foresters to precisely estimate the volume of tree and forest
stands.
In the year 2014, 129 oak shoots of various ages and sizes, located in natural stands
of different densities and site qualities covering all conditions of region grown on, were
felled.
Diameters at different heights of the felled shoots were measured; shoots volumes
and volumes of equivalent cylinders were calculated, and consequently the values of shoot
form factor were computed. The dataset was randomly split into two parts, 70% (90
shoots) of the data for constructing form factor model and 30% (39 trees) for model
validation.
Several form factor models were developed using the non-linear regression equations
in the statistical program SPSS. Best fit to the data was selected and value of the
coefficient of determination adjusted (R²adj) was about 0.77. The model has been validated
using several statistical methods, the relative bias of the best model ( e%) was ca. -3.6 %,
while the value of model accuracy ) % x m ) was 15%. In order to obtain lower value of
model relative bias and higher value of accuracy, it’s recommended to use a larger
database comprising all distribution areas of oak Maquis in Syria.
This research was carried out in five sites varied in altitude representing Mediterranean vegetation zones of western slopes of Lattakia Mountains during 2010 - 2011 on Quercus infectoria Oliv species. Research shows that significant difference of al
titude above sea level has obvious effect on seed germination in different sites. This is noticed in characteristics related to fruit weight, germination rate value sum, and height of vegetal and rooty seedling after four months of germination. Altitude above sea level has no effect on the branchlet number of rooty and vegetal sum height of seedlings as well as mean of leaves number of seedlings. According to germination ratio and daily germination ratio, in addition to seedling diameter, there is harmony among all sites. It can be deduced that there are changes in growth traits of studied seedlings in different sites. This is the primary indication of the impact of the altitude above sea level on seedling traits of Quercus infectoria Oliv.
