identification of rapid degradation of ecological resources requires effective environmental monitoring including ecological integrity assessment .our first aim is to analyze ecological integrity in a landscape context while developing a method to assess integrity in spite of a dearth of historical data. we used a spatial-temporal reference framework for land cover maps for assessing ecological...

India is the sixth largest country of the world in size and with a population 1.21 billion (http://www.censusindia.gov.in) has the distinction of being the second most populous country of the world, housing 17.5% of all humans (http://www.prb.org). It is part of the Indian subcontinent that is comprised of the surrounding countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Nepal, and China with whom i...

The west coast of the Indian peninsula receives very heavy rainfall during the summer monsoon (June-September) season with average rainfall over some parts exceeding 250 cm. Heavy rainfall events with rainfall more than 15 cm day −1 at one or more stations along the west coast of India occur frequently and cause considerable damage. out during the monsoon season of 2002 to study these events. T...

The response of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) circulation and precipitation to Middle East dust aerosols on sub-seasonal timescales is studied using observations and the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with online chemistry (WRF-Chem). Satellite data show that the ISM rainfall in coastal southwest India, central and northern India, and Pakistan is closely associated with the Mi...

background: we aimed to determine the frequency of liver copper storage diseases in iranian children with cryptogenic chronic liver disease (cld). materials and methods: one-hundred and twenty children (52 girls, 70 boys; age range: 3 months-14 years) with cld who attended children's medical center in tehran, iran during the years 1997 through 1999, were enrolled. all viral, metabolic and autoi...

As widespread deserts is located in west and southwest of Iran plateau, dust storms form due to west andsouthwest systems over Syria or Iraq as well as Arabian Peninsula. These systems severely affect west and southwestregions. Sometimes the fine dusts transmit to central, north east, and east regions. In this study for investigating dustysynoptical patterns, meteorological data at 5 synoptic s...

Leg 178 will drill eight sites off the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula to provide a highresolution record of Antarctic continental climate over the past 6-10 m.y. and a direct check on the presumed glacio-eustatic origin of global sea-level change over the same period. Moreover, it is an essential preliminary to the more difficult task of extracting the complete Cenozoic record of Ant...

Three new species of the plant bug genus, Psallus are recognized from the Korean Peninsula: Psallus (Calopsallus) injensis Duwal sp. nov., P. (Hylopsallus) taehwana Duwal sp. nov. and P. (Phylidea) yongdaeri Duwal sp. nov. These species are described with illustrations of male and female genitalic structures. A revised key to known species from the Korean Peninsula, including new species and bi...