Entropies such as the Shannon /Wiener and Gini /Simpson indices are not themselves diversities. Conversion of these to effective number of species is the key to a unified and intuitive interpretation of diversity. Effective numbers of species derived from standard diversity indices share a common set of intuitive mathematical properties and behave as one would expect of a diversity, while raw i...

investigating species diversity and richness is essential for defining conservation priorities. in addition, determining landscape parameters influencing species diversity and richness is important for selecting and designing parks and protected areas. kohgiluyeh & boyer ahmad province is a mountainous region, comprises hills, mounds, forests and plains. this vast province has high species dive...

the aim of this investigation was to study the planktonic shrimp-like communities density and diversity in artificial reefs of khuzestan coasts, bahrakan waters (the persian gulf). sampling was conducted for one year from may 2011 to april 2012, monthly. zooplankton were collected with plankton tows using 300 μm mesh net. totally, two superfamily, penaeoidea, sergestoidea and one suborder carid...

in order to investigate biodiversity and production of cultivated medicinal plants in agroecosystems of qazvin province, a study was conducted during year of 2011. interviews were carried out with farmers by using semi-structured questionnaire to obtain information regarding to biodiversity and medicinal plants production systems in main regions under cultivation of medicinal plants including f...

Gonabad located at Khorasan Razavi and coordinates 580 30’ N 34o 35’ E. The highest point of the zone belongs to Peak of Siah Mountain (height of 2,863 meters above sea level) and the lowest place has height of 810 meters above sea level, which is located in North West in salt desert. The mean temperature of the warmest and coldest of year is 29.3 and 3.9 respectively. Mor...

selection of genotypes based on high value of heritability and forecasted genetic conditions would be an effective method for improvement of wheat cultivars. the present investigation was carried out to estimate the genetic variability of agro-physiological characters using biometrical genetic techniques in 20 bread wheat genotypes under irrigated condition. for this purpose an experiment was c...

understanding the plant species diversity could be used as an importantindicator applied for the natural areas management. the aim of this study was toinvestigate the relationships between soil characterizes with distribution and diversity ofplant in vegetation types in karvan district (located in west of isfahan province). for thispurpose, three vegetation types were selected as follows: scari...

Past studies have widely documented the decrease in species diversity in response to addition of nutrients, however functional diversity is often independent from species diversity. In this study, we conducted a field experiment to examine the effect of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization ((NH4)2 HPO4) at 0, 15, 30 and 60 g m-2 yr-1 (F0, F15, F30 and F60) after 4 years of continuous fertiliza...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite loci were isolated from four species of Viburnum (Adoxaceae) to study population structure and assess species boundaries among morphologically similar South American Viburnum species of the Oreinotinus clade. METHODS AND RESULTS Using a microsatellite-enriched library and mining next-generation sequence data, 16 microsatellites were developed. Each locus wa...