Dispersal patterns of juvenile northern New Zealand dotterels have been analysed, based on sight recoveries of birds colour-banded as chicks between 1986 and 1998. Birds bred 0-196 km from their natal site, with an average distance of 31 km and a median of 22 km. About 18% of birds returned to their natal site to breed and nearly all (93%) bred within 70 km of their natal site. Between fledging...

A common objective of methods of systematic reserve selection has been to maximize conservation benefits—frequently current species richness—while reducing the costs of acquiring and maintaining reserves. But the probability that a reserve will lose species in the future is frequently not known because the minimum area requirements for most species have not been estimated empirically. For reser...

A radar-based climatology of 91 unique summertime (May 2000–August 2009) thunderstorm cases was examined over the Indianapolis, Indiana, urban area. The study hypothesis is that urban regions alter the intensity and composition/structure of approaching thunderstorms because of land surface heterogeneity. Storm characteristics were studied over the Indianapolis region and four peripheral rural c...

The native forests of Borneo have been impacted by selective logging, fire, and conversion to plantations at unprecedented scales since industrial-scale extractive industries began in the early 1970s. There is no island-wide documentation of forest clearance or logging since the 1970s. This creates an information gap for conservation planning, especially with regard to selectively logged forest...

background: geographic distribution of west nile virus (wnv) is heterogeneous in iran by a high circulation in the southern-western areas. the objective of our study was to determine environmental and climatic factors associ­ated with the risk of wnv equine seropositivity in iran. methods: serological data were obtained from a serosurvey conducted in equine population in 260 districts in iran. ...

in the universal soil loss equation (usle), soil erodibility factor (k) is estimated through nomograph. using the nomograph in calcareous soils may lead to uncertainty in estimating the erodibility factor. this study was conducted in hashtrud, (north west of iran) from march 2005 to march 2006. field measurements were carried out in an agricultural area of 30 km × 30 km. thirty six land grids w...

Quantified balanced and restored crustal cross-sections across the NW Zagros Mountains are presented in this work integrating geological and geophysical local and global datasets. The balanced crustal cross-section reproduces the surficial folding and thrusting of the thick cover succession, including the near top of the Sarvak Formation (∼ 90 Ma) that forms the top of the restored crustal cros...