Special Issue “Floodplains and Reservoirs as Sinks and Sources for Pollutants”

Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks

The ocean circulation is a cause and consequence of fluid scale interactions from millimeters to 10,000km. Although the wind field produces a large energy input to the ocean, all but about 10% appears to be dissipated within about 100m of the sea surface, rendering very difficult observations of the energy divergence necessary to maintain the full water column flow. Attention thus shifts to the...

Sources and sinks: revisiting the criteria for identifying reservoirs for American cutaneous leishmaniasis.

Molecular-based approaches might be misleading for assessing the 'potential importance' of possible reservoirs for parasites unless used in conjunction with population dynamics and ecological studies that provide an understanding of the linkages between the enzootic transmission cycle (in wild animals) and that in domestic animals. Better understanding of ecological constraints on Leishmania tr...

Editorial for Special Issue of Microbiota

Editorial for Special Issue of Microbiota Bagher Larijani Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

SPECIAL ISSUE THE VALUES OF WETLANDS: LANDSCAPE AND INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES Economic criteria for using wetlands as nitrogen sinks under uncertainty

If the environmental damages that are caused by excessive nitrogen load to the sea depend on the timing of emissions, then monitoring the stochastic variation of emissions is crucial for controlling eutrophication damages. A significant problem of nonpoint source (NPS) nitrogen pollution is that emissions are stochastic and difficult to control. The main purpose of this paper is to examine unde...

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