In a natural resource management setting, monitoring is a crucial component of an informed process for making decisions, and monitoring design should be driven by the decision context and associated uncertainties. Monitoring itself can play 3 roles. First, it is important for state-dependent decision-making, as when managers need to know the system state before deciding on the appropriate cours...

The sharing and exchanging of knowledge through the peer-review process propels scientific progress. It is also a tool that many researchers must use to gain credibility advance their careers. For early-career (ECRs), can facilitate intellectual growth professional accomplishment. Because ECRs are encouraged publish for personal development, generating literature community. Yet be fraught with ...

the iranian journal of radiation research (ijrr) is now in the eighth year of publication. this journal is the mouth piece of shared idea of dr shahram akhlaghpoor and me, which was established way back in 2002. at that time the main emphasis of the founder members was to make the subject of radiation research attractive and interesting especially for combating cancer and risk assessment. the d...

background: there is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. this study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in iranian journal of pathology (iran j pathol)from 2006 to 2015. methods: bibliometric analysis of issues of iran j pathol from 2006 to 2015 was performed using web-based search.the articles published w...

Understanding the contributions of vital rates to species population growth is critical to developing new management protocols. We constructed a model population for black vultures (Coragyps atratus) in North Carolina, USA, based on demographic data from a 14-year study. The model population was similar in stage structure to the reference population, and adult survival was the primary contribut...

I am delighted to announce that Susan Kutz is joining the Editorial team at the International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife as Co-Editor-In-Chief. Susan is Professor of Ecosystem Public Health at the University of Calgary and brings a wealth of experience and research interests to the journal. These include wildlife parasitology and disease ecology, as well as the conservatio...

in recent years, wildlife habitat needs to meet critical requirment (water, food, cover and reproduction sites) on the one hand, and human needs to natural lands for developing agricultural, industrial and residential activities on the other hand, have lead to the serious human-wildlife conflicts. attacks of wolves to human and livestock in hamedan province is an example of these conflicts. dev...