In terms of having a comprehensive vision toward supplying the water requirements, multi-criteria decision-making approach was employed on Zarrine River Basin (ZRB) in northwest Iran. First, climate change impacts were analyzed with Long Ashton Research Station Weather Generator (LARS-WG) downscaling by using General Circulation Models (GCMs) including European Consortium Earth System Model (EC...

BACKGROUND Aquatic insects are the major groups of arthropods that spend some parts of their life cycle in the water. These insects play an important role for transmission of some human and animal diseases. There is few information about the aquatic insects fauna of Iran. METHODS To study the aquatic insects fauna, adult, nymphal and larval collections were carried out from different habitats...

Abstract The impact of climate change on water availability has become a significant cause for concern in the Zayandeh-Roud Reservoir Iran and similar reservoirs arid regions. This study investigates supply River Basin. For better management, Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used to develop hydrologic model basin. then calibrated validated two upstream stations using Sequential Uncer...

The study mainly aims at looking into the disparities in beneficiary’s socio-economic status between areas without implementation of forestry plans and where had initially been available even though they have recently terminated as well. Babol Roud plan is located Lafoor forest area County, Mazandaran Province, Northeast Iran. This research was divided three steps: first all, by making use Coch...