West Nile virus (WNV) (Flavivirus: Flaviviridae) is the most widespread arbovirus in the world. A significant range expansion occurred beginning in 1999 when the virus was introduced into New York City. This review highlights recent research into WNV epizootiology and epidemiology, including recent advances in understanding of the host-virus interaction at the molecular, organismal, and ecologi...

The article is devoted to the study of problems formation natural and ecological framework in historically established planning structure central district city Zelenodolsk. Today, green spaces perform not only ecological, but also socio-economic functions. Consequently, developed system natural-ecological frame makes it possible form an identical, stable flexible structure. In course study, a c...

Siyun Park, Kung-Sik Chan, Hildegunn Viljugrein, Larissa Nekrassova, Bakhtiyar Suleimenov, Vladimir S. Ageyev, Nikolay L. Klassovskiy, Sergey B. Pole and Nils Chr. Stenseth 1 Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, U.S.A. 2 Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1050 Blindern, ...

objective: the aim of this study is to provide a management plan for the sykan watershed of darre shahr city located in ilam province using gis in land use planning. methods: for land using of sykan watershed of ilam province with about 9 hectares area, map of classes, elevation, percent slope, geographical aspects, soil characteristics, vegetation density and the final map units were combined ...

investigating urban environmental conditions, informs us about the unsustainability and excessivedegradation of ecological context, which result in rising environmental concerns among the society. classifiedinformation about the status and trends of environmental components is needed as a rational tool to help urbansustainable planning and soer reports can help provide such information. prepari...

by considering certain factors like those mentioned by ian thompson (2005) in his definition of landscape, i.e. ecology, community and delight, in designing landscapes, one can find the vocation more applicable and useful. city rivers can play a very important role with regard to such values. in fact, the presence of nature and wildlife could not only be the lifeline of a city, but also a facto...

Galf n Cranz has a Masters and PhD in sociolog)' from University" of Chicago, where she specialized in the "social use of space." Since then she has taught architecture from a social and cultural point of view at Princeton University and the University' of California at Berkeley. The author of The Politics ofPniii Design (1982), she hecame interested in the problems of sustainable development i...

given the critical role played by urban green spaces and the emergence of remote sensing as avaluable natural resource management tool, this study sought to identify trends in green spaces within thecontext of south africa’s transition period (1990 - 2000). using the city of port elizabeth as a case study, threesets of landsat - 5 thematic mapper images (1990, 1995 and 2000) were geo-processed,...