the effect of soil and topographic features on distribution of amygdalus scoparia in nehbandan (iran) was investigated. slope, aspect and altitudinal maps were overlaid to prepare a working map unit. quantitative and qualitative traits, including height, number, collar diameter of sprout with the highest diameter, crown diameter and trunk health were recorded in 1000 m2 plots (27 plots). in eac...

Dimension-reducing feature extraction neural network techniques which also preserve neighbourhood relationships in data have traditionally been the exclusive domain of Kohonen self organising maps. Recently, we introduced a novel dimension-reducing feature extraction process, which is also topographic, based upon a Radial Basis Function architecture. It has been observed that the generalisation...

The use of biodiversity surrogates has been discussed in the context of designing habitat linkages to support the migration of species affected by climate change. Topography has been proposed as a useful surrogate in the coarse-filter approach, as the hydrological process caused by topography such as erosion and accumulation is the basis of ecological processes. However, some studies that have ...

Forest topsoil supports vegetation growth and contains the majority of soil nutrients that are important indices of soil fertility and quality. Therefore, estimating forest topsoil properties, such as soil organic matter (SOM), total nitrogen (Total N), pH, litter-organic (O-A) horizon depth (Depth) and available phosphorous (AvaP), is of particular importance for forest development and managem...

MUNISHI, P. K. T., SHEAR, T. H., WENTWORTH, T. & TEMU, R. A. P. C. 2007. Compositional gradients of plant communities in submontane rainforests of eastern Tanzania. This study classified plant communities and examined the environmental correlates of community compositions in two submontane rainforests on the ranges of Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Using agglomerative cluster analysis, indica...

this research has been done with the aim of explaining environmental and managerial factors that affects on rangeland vegetation distribution in saral rangelands of kurdistan province. after selecting plant types as working area were done sampling from plant types and determined some of plants parameters such as kind and number of plants and cover percentage. various environmental factors such ...

1. Prof. Hassan Saidi [9] 2. Dr. Gichambira Gikenye [10] 3. Dr. Beda Olabu [11] 4. Dr. Pamela Mandela [12] 5. Dr. James Kigera [13] 6. Dr. Paul Odula [14] 7. Dr. Fawzia Butt [15] COURSE DESCRIPTION Gross Anatomy can be approached either topographically or systemically. Topographic anatomy being the study of gross anatomy region by region, viz: Head and Neck, Trunk, Appendages; while Systemic an...