background: marine pollution is a global environmental problem that its monitoring by ideal biomonitors is of great importance. marine organisms, especially mussels, have the ability to accumulate metals from the environment they can be considered as a biomonitoring agent. methods: in this study, concentrations of heavy metals were measured in saccostrea cucullata collected from seven sites on ...

rocky shores are one of the most important habitats of marine environment in coastal areas. they host marine organisms including seaweeds because of existence of strong and stable substrate for their growths. intertidal rocky shores are a prominent feature on coastal areas of qeshm island located at the northern part of strait of hormuz. in order to study biomass of seaweeds on rocky intertidal...

BACKGROUND Scorpions are known as the most widespread poisonous creatures that cause casualties and death to human. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. Among the sixteen Iranian Island in the Persian Gulf, Qeshm Island is the biggest and is located in the focus of the important internal and international commercial marinelines. Furthermore, thousands of tourists also visit t...

rocky shores are one of the most important habitats of marine environment in coastal areas. they host marine organisms including seaweeds because of existence of strong and stable substrate for their growths. intertidal rocky shores are a prominent feature on coastal areas of qeshm island located at the northern part of strait of hormuz. in order to study biomass of seaweeds on rocky intertidal...

Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas is one of the important-oil transport hubs in Persian Gulf and any oil spill incidents can result in pollution, which impact on human habitats and the marine environment. Oil spill trajectory modeling is a tool which applied to increase the knowledge about oil spill fate. The GNOME model is a physical model which indicates the oil spill movements on sea water and pot...

BACKGROUND Passeromyia is a muscid genus previously known from the Old World Afrotropical and Oriental regions and eastwards from Australia and the West Pacific. The genus is known from nest-dwelling larvae which may be parasites of the nestlings. This study was aimed to identify of the Passeromyia species in the Iranian Persian Gulf Islands. METHODS The flies were collected during April 2010...

Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas is one of the important-oil transport hubs in Persian Gulf and any oil spill incidents can result in pollution, which impact on human habitats and the marine environment. Oil spill trajectory modeling is a tool which applied to increase the knowledge about oil spill fate. The GNOME model is a physical model which indicates the oil spill movements on sea water and pot...

background: persian gulf is a semi-closed environment which is affected by pollution ‎from heavy metals. entrance of heavy metals to the water column and binding to ‎sediment particles can affect the benthic organisms that can accumulate these ‎materials in their body. noticing this ability, mussels are considered as bio-monitoring ‎agents.‎ methods: the pearl oyster, pinctada radiate, and sedi...

concentrations of lead (pb) were found in the shells of the oyster saccostrea cucullata and sediments in may 2010. samples were obtained at four sites on qeshm island, at three sites on hormoz island, and at three sites in lengeh port along the intertidal coast of the persian gulf of iran. the levels of pb in sediments and shells were analyzed by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotom...