this study is trying to exploitations view point and permanent management problems of rangeland to evaluate in ranches damavand summer rangeland in amol county. statistical society are utilizations 15 ranch that with three methods, collective property, private property and council property from rangeland utilization and randomly from among their number 88 was selected. the research tool was a q...

Estimation of Soil Erosion using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Geographic Information System (GIS) on the Rangeland Hillslopes

Ecosystem Services Valuation of Rig-Ishaqabad Rangeland in Iran: The Provisioning and Regulating Vegetation Types

one of the main objectives of ecosystem management is to preserve the speciesdiversity. many researchers regard higher species diversity as the stability of ecologicalsystems. the aim of this study is to investigate the stability and relationships betweentopographical factors with diversity indices in ghorkhud mountainous rangeland innorthern khorasan province, iran. for data sampling (2012), l...

QuickBird satellite imagery was evaluated for differentiating among rangeland cover types on the Welder Wildlife Refuge in south Texas. The satellite imagery had a spatial resolution of 2.8 m and contained 11-bit data. Four subsets of the satellite image were extracted and used as study sites. Field spectral measurements made among the dominant vegetation types showed significant differences in...

To reduce dependence on foreign oil reserves, there has been a push in North America to develop alternative domestic energy resources. Relatively undeveloped renewable energy resources include biofuels and wind and solar energy, many of which occur predominantly on rangelands. Rangelands are also key areas for natural gas development from shales and tight sand formations. Accordingly, policies ...

A long standing question in range management concerns the relative importance of the stocking rate versus the length of time during which animals graze a particular rangeland. We address this question by analyzing the problem faced by a private rancher who wishes to minimize the long run expected net unit cost from range operations by choosing either the stocking rate or the length of time duri...

Comparison of Vegetation Characteristics under Three Management Treatments (Heavy Grazing, Exclusure and with Restoration Practices) in Kiasar Chardange Rangeland Sari

PURPOSE On the main island of Taiwan, a higher risk of scrub typhus infection has been reported in endemic clusters in Southeastern Taiwan and in mountainous township areas. However, research on health care problems associated with scrub typhus in Taiwanese ethnic peoples is limited. This study employs spatial analysis of areal data to determine spatial features related to scrub typhus and the ...

The Qin-Ba Ecological Functional Zone is a component of China’s ecological security pattern designed to protect the regional ecosystem and maintain biodiversity. However, due to the impact of mining and urban encroachment, the plight of a sustainable ecosystem in the Qin-Ba mountainous area is deteriorating. This paper has used a remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) to examine...