CAVERNICOLOUS SPIDERS FROM THE NULLARBOR PLAIN AND SOUTH-WEST AUSTRALIA

Bohra nullarbora sp. nov., a second tree-kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the Pleistocene of the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia

Bohra nullarbora sp. nov. is described from a partial skeleton collected from a diverse Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage preserved in Leaena’s Breath Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. It is distinguished from its Nullarbor contemporary, B. illuminata, by having different cranial proportions, smaller cheek teeth and a relatively narrower upper premolar. It also differs in a number of po...

Assessing the groundwater vulnerability to pollution using DRASTIC and SINTACS models, case study: Evan Plain, south west of Iran

Microfacies analysis and depositional environment of the Fahliyan Formation (Lower Cretaceus), Abadan plain, West South of Iran (Arvand-field)

The Fahliyan Formation of Khami Group is hosting important hydrocarbon reserves in Iran and also is a main reservoir rock in the Abadan Plain oil fields which is Neocomian in age. In the studied wells its thickness is about 406 meters. In the Abadan Plain, the Fahliyan Formation transitionally overlies of the Garau Formation and its upper boundary changes into the Gadvan Formation. According to...

Ballooning Spiders in Missouri, Usa , and New South Wales, Australia : Family and Mass Distribution S

Ballooning spiders were captured during a full growing season over agricultural habitats i n Missouri, USA, and one week in New South Wales, Australia, using sticky traps in Missouri and to w nets in Australia. More than 2,000 spiders in Missouri and more than 800 spiders in Australia were identified to family and estimates made of their live masses . Both aeronaut faunas are dominated by the f...

Groundwater level simulation using artificial neural network: a case study from Aghili plain, urban area of Gotvand, south-west Iran

In this paper, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach is applied for forecasting groundwater level fluctuation in Aghili plain,southwest Iran. An optimal design is completed for the two hidden layers with four different algorithms: gradient descent withmomentum (GDM), levenberg marquardt (LM), resilient back propagation (RP), and scaled conjugate gradient (SCG). Rain,evaporation, relative...