The integration between vegetation data, human disturbance factors, and geo-spatial data (Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and image data) is a particular challenge for vegetation mapping in mountainous areas. The present study aimed to incorporate the relationships between species distribution (or vegetation spatial distribution pattern) and topography and human disturbance factors with remote se...

The aim of our study was to describe and compare nutritional status and food related behaviours in rural pregnant women of Li ethnicity as they had been divided into mountainous and costal groups by residential area. One hundred and ninety-six randomly selected healthy rural pregnant women of Li ethnicity for the mountainous group (MG), and eighty-two for the coastal group (CG) were recruited. ...

Land cover is one of basic data layers in geographic information system for physical planning and environmentalmonitoring. Digital image classification is generally performed to produce land cover maps from remote sensing data,particularly for large areas. In the present study the multispectral image from IRS LISS-III image along with ancillary datasuch as vegetation indices, principal componen...

Groundwater is a vital component of life; without its identification, it impossible to live. Therefore, identifying groundwater potential zones (GWPZs) critical. For this purpose, the study area Kohat District was selected identify GWPZs using multi-influencing factors (MIF) approach. The has semi-arid sub-humid subtropical climate and classified as sub-tropical, triple-season, semi-arid, sub-m...

species diversity is an index for sustainability of rangeland ecosystems. we studied the effect of environmental factors (soil properties and aspects) on plant species diversity in zagros mountainous rangelands (vegetation type: festuca ovina-astragalus parrowianus) in the west of hamadan in march–july 2009. for this purpose, four aspects were defined in the study area. vegetation types were st...

One new species of the genus Phradis, P. peruvianus sp. n., from the mountainous part of Peruvian Amazonia, is described and illustrated. This is the first record of the genus from South America and the