background: cancer is a major public health problem in the world. in iran especially after a transition to a dynamic and urban community, the pattern of cancer has changed significantly. an important change occurred regarding the incidence of cancer at the southern shores of the caspian sea, including gilan, mazandaran and golestan province. this study was designed it investigate the epidemiolo...

changes in abundance and biomass of cyanobacteria have been studied in the southern part of the caspian sea (the stretch between tonekabon and amirabad) in four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter) in which samples were taken from five depths of 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 meters in the stations of tonekabon, noushahr, babolsar and amirabad. samples were fixed in formalin (2-2.5%) before transfer...

ebria tripartita (schumann) lemmermann, 1899, a non-photosynthetic flagellate was identified from the southern coast of the caspian sea in december 2012. water temperature at the sampling time was 10 ºc.  the abundance of total phytoplankton cells was 3 × 106 cells.l-1, while e. tripartita with 2 × 10 3 cells. l-1 included 0.75% of phytoplankton community. water quality parameters were recorded...

we measured the impacts of coastal modification on beach erosion and beach retreat conditions, selecting the miankaleh region as an example of a complex high-pressure free zone with high levels of engineering and tourism activity. nine sampling transects, stretching from the shoreline to a 10 meter depth, were defined and 36 sediment samples were collected from the sea bed at depths of 1, 3, 5,...

background: marine products, especially fish, play an increasingly significant role in human diets and health. this research evaluated the concentrations of cadmium, lead, chromium, and nickel in liver and muscle tissues of rutilus frisii kutum along the caspian sea coasts of northern iran. methods: thirty samples of fishes were taken from five stations (astara, rezvanshahr, anazali, ramsar, an...

although the persian sturgeon, acipenser persicus , is a commercially valuable sturgeon species of the caspian sea, but there are only few reports about its parasite fauna in the southern part of the caspian sea. in this study, a total of 209 individuals of persian sturgeon were collected from two regions in the southwestern of caspian sea (guilan province, iran) from march 2009 to may 2011. af...

Caspian Sea with an average depth of 27m is the largest enclosed water body in the world. Despite its enormity and valuable biotic and economic resources, investigations on the biota and seawater properties are mosaic at best. In previous studies, the monitoring of the chlorophyll-a concentrations in the Southern Caspian Sea was organized based on satellite data sets however, vertical dis...