temperature is considered as the basic element of climate and also the environmental limiting factor in lutdesert. in this research, in order to identify the temperature of lut desert located in east of central iran, using remote sensing data, six series of modis sensor images related to june 24th & december 23rd 2002, and also january 22nd, march 22nd, june 22nd & september 24th 2003 w...

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...

Groundwater vulnerability assessment is of crucial importance for land use/cover management. Some methods have been proposed specifically for the karst hydrogeological settings. Among them, COP and PaPRIKa, as two commonly applied recent methods, were adopted for the resource vulnerability assessment of a humid temperate karst region, north of Iran. Comparison of water bacterial content and dis...

Using a nested plot design in oak forests in Minnesota, USA we measured the percent cover of young individuals of an exotic invading shrub, Rhamnus cathartica (common buckthorn), to assess the relationships at two scales between invasibility, propagule and light availability, and richness and cover of native species. Comparing patches (1 m) within 17 Quercus -dominated stands (each 1 ha, within...

Aims (1) 2 To determine whether deforestation has affected the incidence of species of Melipona in an area undergoing deforestation. (2) To highlight the potential use of GIS and remote-sensed environmental variables in studies of insects as bioindicators of landscape change. Location Central Rondonia, Brazil in the south-western Amazon Basin, an area under intense deforestation pressure for ag...

Groundwater quality regarding major anions and cations in the Birjand Plain located in the largest desert in Eastern Iran was monitored in this study. Fifteen boreholes were considered as sampling stations and the parameters pH, TDS, EC and major anions and cations were measured in groundwater samples. The dominant groundwater types can be introduced as sodium-chloride and magnesium-sulphate. T...

Groundwater quality regarding major anions and cations in the Birjand Plain located in the largest desert in Eastern Iran was monitored in this study. Fifteen boreholes were considered as sampling stations and the parameters pH, TDS, EC and major anions and cations were measured in groundwater samples. The dominant groundwater types can be introduced as sodium-chloride and magnesium-sulphate. T...