Knowledge of habitat requirements of aquatic animals plays an important role in fisheries and protection programs of aquatic ecosystems. Hence, this study was conducted to investigate the suitability indexes of habitat use and habitat suitability index (HSI) of Barbus cyri in its distribution range in Tootkabon River. A number of environmental variables, including elevation, water depth, river ...

Although density-dependent processes and their impacts on population dynamics are key issues in ecology conservation biology, empirical evidence of density-dependence remains scarce for species or populations with low densities, scattered distributions, especially managed where densities may vary as a result extrinsic factors (such harvesting releases). Here, we explore the presence reinforced ...

in the present research necessities of instream flow needs (ifn) assessment in the rivers with focusing on delichai river as case study is investigated using the hydro-ecological methods. at first, ifn is assessed using two common approaches of the tennant and wetted perimeter. then considering that rainbow trout is the most important and dominant species in this river, ecological condition of ...

Biological invasions and land-use changes are two major causes of the global modifications of biodiversity. Habitat suitability models are the tools of choice to predict potential distributions of invasive species. Although land-use is a key driver of alien species invasions, it is often assumed that land-use is constant in time. Here we combine historical and present day information, to evalua...

quantification of the habitat available for fish species named rainbow trout (oncorhynchusmykiss) were evaluated in lees ferry, colorado river using water depth, water temperature, sediment transport,flow velocity in 2004 as environmental index. for the flow velocity and temperature distribution calculationsin the river, the navier-stokes equation and energy conservation equations with finite v...

Selection of habitats has regularly been suggested to influence species demography at both local and broad scales. The expectation is that selection behaviors have positive benefits via greater fitness or increased survival. The current paradigm of habitat selection theory suggests a hierarchical process, where an individual first selects where they choose to live (e.g., range) and then searche...