ecosystems is challenging because park managers cannot accurately determine ecosystem states and predict the outcomes of management actions due to uncertainty. Four sources of uncertainty arise. First, variability in social, demographic, ecological, and economic factors makes it difficult to infer the state of an ecosystem from observed conditions and predict ecosystem responses to management a...

Despite comprising only 2.2% of the area of the Northern Territory, estuaries are major repositories of biodiversity; 40% of all fishes recorded from the Northern Territory occur in estuaries and 33% of all northern Australian freshwater fishes require access to estuaries to breed. Estuaries are vital nursery areas for many fish species including many that are of economic importance. Importantl...

School of Medicine and Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York; Environmental Genomics Section, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arizona; and Univ...

Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC 27713, USA Integrated Laboratory Systems, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods, Division of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA Procter & Gamble NV, Stro...

This study aims to conduct a survey of visitor reviews the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia detect strengths and weaknesses park. In total, 15,673 written period between 2007 2021 were scraped from social media platform TripAdvisor. The research applies comprehensive combination multidimensional scaling, sentiment analysis, natural language processing approaches sample area international...

We reviewed literature reporting both total and methylmercury from biota from Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Our review of existing data indicates that 1) mercury contamination is widespread throughout the Park's various aquatic ecosystems; 2) mercury pollution likely represents a moderate to high risk to biota inhabiting the Park; and 3) biota at all trophic levels possess elevated concentr...

1 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC. 2 Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC. 3 Center for Population Health Researc...

khabr national park and ruchun wildlife refuge are situated in the southeast of iran, kerman province. although snakes are an important group in the studied area, little is known regarding their diversity. the present study was carried out from march 2009 to late summer 2010. in this study, 74 specimens were collected (or observed) and identified, belonging to four families, 14 genera, and 17 s...