Cause of mortality was studied in waterfowl in hypersaline playa lakes of southeast New Mexico during spring and fall migration. Mortality was not common in wild ducks resting on the playas during good weather. However, when birds remained on the lakes for prolonged periods of time, such as during experimental trials and stormy weather, a heavy layer of salt precipitated on their feathers. Sodi...

New Urbanism refers to a form of development that integrates shopping and housing in a pedestrian friendly environment that reduces the need for automobile usage and arguably impacts individual choices regarding commuting and other daily travel. New Urbanism is an increasingly “hot topic” in heavily congested regions, such as Los Angeles, where the wider, often meandering, tree-lined walkways N...

The Remote Sensing Group at the University of Arizona has used ground-based test sites for the vicarious calibration of airborne and satellite-based sensors, of which the Railroad Valley Playa in north central Nevada has played a key role. This work presents a cross comparison of five satellite-based sensors that all imaged this playa on July 16, 2001. These sensors include the Advanced Land Im...

Many sea turtle nesting colonies are in decline worldwide, and a common conservation practice maximizes hatchling production by translocating eggs from threatened nests to protective beach hatcheries. Typically, translocated eggs are ‘doomed’, or at risk of death due to tidal inundation, predation, or poaching. Sea turtles exhibit temperature-dependent sex determination. We determined how prima...

Annually, 200 ha of Agh Ghala rangelands in Golestan, Iran are under Alkaligrass Puccinella distans''s cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. The current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow P. distans in northern rangelands of Agh Ghala Golestan, Iran. Because of the...

¿Cómo dibujar el mar, atmósfera nunca igual a sí misma e ingobernable? ¿Cuál es lamemoria estética del territorio «playa»? ¿Qué operaciones antrópicas ponen en riesgoeste territorio? Vamos la playa una invitación pensar especificidad de geografíadeterminada dejando lado idea universal litoral marítimo y viajandopor las capas su construcción política social. En tiempos cambio climático ycrisis s...

El objetivo consistió en analizar la relación entre las estrategias de concientización ambiental y conservación playa del Rodadero hoteleros, vendedores ambulantes comerciantes para un ambiente libre contaminación. Basada una metodología cuantitativa mediante tipo investigación no experimental diseño correlacional, se aplicó el instrumento cuestionario a muestra 194 residentes playa. Los princi...