Mining causes the destruction of natural ecosystems through removal of soil and vegetation and burial beneath waste disposal sites. The restoration of mined land in practice can largely be considered as ecosystem reconstruction — the reestablishment of the capability of the land to capture and retain fundamental resources. In restoration planning, it is imperative that goals, objectives, and su...

Environmental and nature management can not operate effectively without reliable information on changes in the environment and on the causes of those changes. Ecological monitoring can represent an important source of information. However, many operational monitoring programs are not very effective, i.e., not very useful for decision-making. We present a conceptual framework for the development...

Many physical diseases have been reported to be associated with psychosocial factors. In these diseases, assessment relies mainly on subjective symptoms in natural settings. Therefore, it is important to assess symptoms and/or relationships between psychosocial factors and symptoms in natural settings. Symptoms are usually assessed by self-report when patients visit their doctors. However, self...

Ecological momentary assessment and/or experience sampling methods are increasingly used in health studies to study subjective experiences within changing environmental contexts. In these studies, up to 30 or 40 observations are often obtained for each subject. Because there are so many measurements per subject, one can characterize a subject's mean and variance and can specify models for both....

Background & Aims of the Study: The present research aims to use sediment quality indices in the assessment of toxicity and ecological risk factors of heavy metals Pb, Cu and Zn in Anzali, Meighan, Shadegan and Hashilan wetlands. Material & Methods: Given the environmental conditions, surface sediments in 71 diverse stations were sampled in three replications. Having preparation and subject...

When dealing with environmental and ecological systems, stochastic methods may play central role at various stages for proper identification, assessment and decisions. This is particularly due to their ability to integrate the diverse knowledges which are needed to deal with the complex nature of environmental and ecological issues. The main purpose of this mini-symposium is the development of ...

Environmental monitoring in ecological and hydrological watershed-scale research is an important and promising area of application for wireless sensor networks. This paper presents the system design of the IPv6 wireless sensor network (IPv6WSN) in the Heihe River watershed in the Gansu province of China to assist ecological and hydrological scientists collecting field scientific data in an extr...

Environmental monitoring in ecological and hydrological watershed-scale research is an important and promising area of application for wireless sensor networks. This paper presents a system design of IPv6 wireless sensor network (IPv6WSN) in Heihe river watershed in Gansu province of China to assist ecological and hydrological scientists collecting field scientific data in an extremely harsh en...