brown trout, salmo trutta fario, has a wide range of distribution in the north of iran and in karaj, lighvanchai and karun rivers, but there is no report about its feeding behavior in some water resources including the lar natural park. in order to study feeding behavior of this fish during spawning season, a survey was carried out in the rivers of elarm, aab-sefid, kamardasht and delichayi in ...

fragmentation, or breaking apart of habitats, is one of the major causes of decline in biological diversity. mature ecosystems, especially dense forests are very sensitive to this phenomenon and roads are one of the major causes of fragmentation in forest landscapes. present investigation aims to trace landscape fragmentation in dense forests of golestan national park in northeast of iran betwe...

population growth and urbanization increase the demand for developing new roads. heavy traffic of the east of tehran imposes high pressure on transportation. network of this city and old road of tehran-rudehen does not meet this need. therefore, constructing the new highway (tehran – pardis) in the east of tehran would be needed. but the new highway passes through protected area of jajrood an...

numbers of persian leopards have considerably decreased in recent years and for this reason it has been categorized as endangered in the iucn classification. habitat destruction is believed to be the main cause of the species population decline. hence, attempts to preserve the remaining habitats of this kind of animal effectively are deemed essential in reversing its downgrading trend. to hit t...

Contingent choice surveys, in which respondents rate or rank alternative scenarios describing potential futures composed of varying levels of several different attributes, can help national park managers by identifying the preferences of visitors and also the nonuse values generated by park attributes. Many alternative combinations of park attributes can be explored efficiently, helping park ma...

The study was conducted with the objective of mapping landscape cover of Nechsar National park in Ethiopia to produce spatially accurate and timely information on land use and changing pattern. Monitoring provides the planners and decision-makers with required information about the current state of its development and the nature of changes that have occurred. Remote sensing and Geographical Inf...

birds constitute the important elements of most ecosystems of the world. the objective of this study was to survey and identify birds of boujagh national park. for this reason the park divided into 7 parts and during 24 months, between autumn 1383 and late summer of 1385, the park has been surveyed. the results show that 234 species have been identified (about %46.4 of all bird species througho...

Yellowstone National Park plays host to numerous microbiological research projects — officially 23, according to the 1996 Investigators' Annual Reports. However, once categories such as aquatic ecology, the study of brucellosis and other wildlife diseases, environmental education, geochemistry and geothermal systems, and vegetation are included, the total came to at least 35 in 1996. Research p...