Ecosystems comprising coastal lakes and ponds are important areas for preserving biodiversity. The natural reserve "Saline di Trapani e Paceco" is an interesting natural area in Sicily, formed by the remaining strips of land among salt pans near the coastline. From January 2008 to January 2010, pitfall trapping was conducted in five sampling sites inside the study area. The community of terrest...

Sea reclamation works and fish farming are increasingly common in coastal zones, and how to accurately and rapidly extract the coastal aquaculture area is important for the development of coastal zones. This paper discusses a CBR (case-based reasoning) method. Firstly, using a 10 meter resolution of a multi-spectral remote sensing image of Eastern Guangdong over ten thousands of spatial, spectr...

China is facing intense coastal eutrophication. Large-scale seaweed aquaculture in China is popular, now accounting for over 2/3's of global production. Here, we estimate the nutrient removal capability of large-scale Chinese seaweed farms to determine its significance in mitigating eutrophication. We combined estimates of yield and nutrient concentration of Chinese seaweed aquaculture to quant...

After the outbreak of classical swine fever (CSF) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, policy makers are expected to make decisions on the restocking of pigs. The objective of this study was to investigate farmers’ perceptions of CSF outbreak in coastal and inland communal production systems because of their differences in harbouring pathogens. Data were collected from 288 farmers in t...

Salinity is a major yield reducing factor in coastal as well as arid irrigated rice production systems. Salt induced abiotic stress is an acute problem, interrupting the metabolic processes of plants, resulting in reduced growth and productivity. Proline is an amino acid which increases in plants under abiotic stress. Salinity stress affects the metabolism of plants leading to severe crop damag...

Land cover changes significantly influence vegetation greenness in different regions. Dense Landsat time series stacks provide unique opportunity to analyze land cover change and vegetation greenness trends at finer spatial scale. In the past three decades, large reclamation activities have greatly changed land cover and vegetation growth of coastal areas. However, rarely has research investiga...

Digital elevation models (DEMs) of a coastal area in a time series are very useful to monitor annual and seasonal coastal morphologic changes. Topographic features in coastal regions change significantly within a relatively short period compared with landmass. However, it is difficult to obtain coherent interferometric SAR pairs over coastal areas. ERS-ENVISAT 30-minute tandem pair is useful to...

. evoked the interest of doctors in this hospital. Dr. K. T. Kurian, my co-worker in the medical wards, has had occasion to note the diet of the people in three or four centres, and he has intimate knowledge of the habits and natural conditions of this northern part of Travancore. In the assessment and evaluation of the setiological factors, therefore, his information and help have been found v...

in this research, the frequency of the jet streams associated with extreme and pervasive precipitation has been analyzed using environmental to circulation approach. based on the 99th percentile index, 109 days of the extreme and pervasive precipitation was selected from the irimo data base ( including 33 synoptic, climatic and rain gage stations during 15992 days from farvardin, 1st, 1340 to d...