Artemia has been widely used in aquaculture as a suitable live food. The presence of highly unsaturated fatty acids is a key factor that determines the nutritional value and marketing of Artemia for shrimp, marine larvae, sturgeon and ornamental fish industries. To determine the variation in nutritional content in cysts, decapsulated cysts and nauplii of Artemia from three different biotopes of...

Urmia Lake, the largest inland lake in Iran has lost most of its water surface area last 2 decades. The desertification caused by drying this unique may lead to dust storms from lakebed and affect air quality region. In study, MODIS derived Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data observed between 2000 2019, Ultra Violet Index (UVAI) Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), meteorological MERRA-2 ground-leve...

A holistic approach to the management of water, energy, food, and environment is required both meet socioeconomic demands future as well sustainable development these limited resources. The Urmia Lake Basin has faced environmental, social, economic challenges in recent years, this situation likely worsen under impacts climate change. For study, an adaptability analysis region proposed for 2040 ...

The GIS-multicriteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) technique is increasingly used for landslide hazard mapping and zonation. It enables the integration of different data layers with different levels of uncertainty. In this study, three different GIS-MCDA methods were applied to landslide susceptibility mapping for the Urmia lake basin in northwest Iran. Nine landslide causal factors were used, ...

This paper introduces the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) as a tool of decision makings for the Integrated Lake Basin Management (ILBM). I show how the analytical framework is applied to one of drainage watersheds in Laguna de Bay in Philippines toward sustainable lake basin management through the ILBM-Governance project.

Lakes have long been recognized as being rich storehouses of environmental information. A lake basin collects water, but also sediment, much of which has been weathered and transported via fluvial processes from the near and far reaches of its drainage basin. The amount of water held in a lake is recorded on the landscape in coastal erosional and depositional landforms created at the water’s ed...

Three-dimensional modeling of lake morphometry enables the calculation of lake volume, planar surface area, and basin surface area, which are critical components of a conceptual model of how planktic and benthic habitat areas change with changing lake level. We have applied three-dimensional modeling to Foy Lake, Montana, and compared model results of changing ratios of planktic and benthic hab...

The water crisis is one of the important issues in the Middle East countries. Many lakes are ‎drying up and/or facing critical situations, exerting tremendous impacts on the socio-economics ‎of their region. Lake Urmia, in northwestern Iran, currently is facing critical situations and is on ‎the brink of total ‎shrinkage and environmental disaster. This paper investigates the roots of crises ‎t...