agricultural droughts are droughts that affect the crop production or the ecology of a region. ravar city that is located in margin of desert and the north of kerman province is one of these areas. due to the existence of enough underground water that entrance to desert and high evaporation to improving agricultural and cultivar activities, it needed to study the construction of underground dam...

dust storms are natural phenomena which occur in arid and semi-arid areas of the world. in this study, to evaluate the dust storms which occurred in mashhad over a period of 30 years (1981-2009), first, the number of days on which dust storms happened in mashhad (days with a wind speed greater than 15 m.s-1 and horizontal visibility less than 1000 m) were identified and counted for each month; ...

Abstract Climate change and variability contribute to exacerbating poverty social unrest in poor countries. Therefore, it becomes important assess vulnerability adaptation measures raise awareness monitoring of climate policy for better decision-making. This research examines how farmers perceive their they respond the semi-arid Far North Region Cameroon. Using both quantitative qualitative app...

one of the characteristics in iranian model of desertification potential assessment (imdpa) is vegetation. sincevegetation is very important factor in the degradation of land, so some indices were determined for this item in order toevaluate desertification potential of arid, semi arid and arid sub humid areas of iran. the indices included vegetationcondition, exploit and revegetation. to calib...

One of the characteristics in Iranian Model of Desertification Potential Assessment (IMDPA) is vegetation. Sincevegetation is very important factor in the degradation of land, so some indices were determined for this item in order toevaluate desertification potential of arid, semi arid and arid sub humid areas of Iran. The indices included vegetationcondition, exploit and revegetation. To calib...

two hundred and ninty four engorged female ticks were collected from 4 different geographical regions for assessment of tick resistance against acaricide compounds.the 15-21 day- old larvae have been tested in accordance with fao recommended larvae packet test .resistant factor for each region was calculated by lc50 and lc99. minimum lc50 (0.008)and, maximum lc50 (0.024) for amitraz were seen i...