sunn pest is considered as the most important insect pest of wheat and barley in iran. different studies have shown that various biotic and abiotic factors affect sunn pest populations. these factors can influence the population density of the pest which in turn can play a role in the control of the pest. in this study the relationship between sunn pest population fluctuations and climatic cond...

UV-B radiation and EOD light (EOD) quality has both signaling and damaging effects based on the dosage and time of exposure. At highland areas UV-B decreases crop productivity and also light quality increase at high elevation area but EOD light quality effect was not researched based on altitude. Therefore, in the present study a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of UV-B...

Background. Malaria still remains a public health problem in developing countries and changing environmental and climatic factors pose the biggest challenge in fighting against the scourge of malaria. Therefore, the study was designed to forecast malaria cases using climatic factors as predictors in Delhi, India. Methods. The total number of monthly cases of malaria slide positives occurring fr...

Bacterial meningitis is an ongoing threat for the population of the African Meningitis Belt, a region characterized by the highest incidence rates worldwide. The determinants of the disease dynamics are still poorly understood; nevertheless, it is often advocated that climate and mineral dust have a large impact. Over the last decade, several studies have investigated this relationship at a lar...

hail phenomenon is one of the hazardous weather phenomena that can make the highest amount of damage to farms, gardens, cars, rooftops, etc. in a very short time (a few minutes), depending on the diameter of the particles. one of the best ways to study this devastating climatic phenomenon is the use of atmospheric instability indices. the indices which are calculated with the help of radiosonde...

Moisture is one of the crucial atmospheric parameters in parameterization schemes and hence it important to study regional moisture variation with altitude at different temporal scales. ERA-Interim MERRA reanalysis data for 38 years (1980–2017) analyzed diurnal, seasonal, annual relative humidity (RH) altitudes over Indian land (IND), East Equatorial Ocean (EEIO), West (WEIO). Layer Averaged Re...

one of the most struggling issues for conservationists and wildlife managers is the climate change. this can be the necessity to develop climate condition indicators. due to the limited movements and special habitat conditions, pikas can be considered as reliable climate indicators. in this study, the most important climatic factors defining the distribution of this species were investigated to...