Maharloo Lake is one of the salty lakes located in the southeast of Fars province, Iran. Presence of salt domes has a significant role in its salinity. Magnesium-sodium chloride and sodium sulfate are dominant salts of the lake. Due to the drying up of lake, widespread lands surrounding the area are exposed to secondary salinity. It seems necessary to investigate the changes to find salinity le...

Using passive acoustic methods for biodiversity conservation and effective ecosystem monitoring is hindered by laborious, human-mediated processes of accurately identifying biologic anthropogenic sounds within large datasets. Soundscape ecology provides a potential means addressing this need through the use automated acoustic-based indices, which show promise in representing terrestrial environ...

Snow cover plays an important role in biotic and abiotic environmental processes, as well human activities, on both regional global scales. Due to the difficulty of situ data collection vast inaccessible areas, use optical satellite imagery represents a useful support for snow mapping. At present, several operational algorithms products are available. Even though most them offer up-to-daily tim...

We investigated the statistical properties of sounds recorded at a site located in Parco Nord Milan, Italy, characterized by wooded land rich biodiversity and exposed to different sources types anthropogenic disturbances with aim deriving information on its environmental quality terms biophonic presence athropic disturbance. A time series eco-acosutic indices were determined for 616 audio files...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Fractional snow covered area Snow covered extent Downscaling Topography Hillslope scale Landsat NDSI Digital elevation models Snow remote sensing Watershed hydrology Accurate characterization of snow-covered area (SCA) and snow water equivalent (SWE) in complex terrain is needed to improve estimation of streamflow timing and volume, and is important for land surf...

Abstract. East of the Continental Divide in cold interior Western Canada, Mackenzie and Nelson River basins have some world's most extreme variable climates, warming climate is changing landscape, vegetation, cryosphere, hydrology. Available data consist streamflow records from a large number (395) natural (unmanaged) gauged basins, where flow may be perennial or temporary, collected either yea...