In the present study, nine species of Aspergillus, viz., A. alliaceus, A. ochraceus, A. persii, A. leproris, A. parasiticus, A. fumigatiaffinis, A. sydowii, A. niger, A. tubingensis and Eurotium amstelodami were obtained and identified from soils of the National Park of Urmia Lake, based on cultural and morphological characteristics. All of the species are newly recorded from hypersaline soils ...

In this research, vascular plants of Bamu National Park (48000 ha.) situated in Fars province were studied. Analyses of all collected plants (450 species) showed that on account of climatic conditions, 94% of them were flowering in spring, also hemicryptophytes and therophytes possess abundant growth form with 39.6% and 23.5%, respectively. Phytogeographically, Irano-Turanian  elements comprise...

We conducted a series of studies on the implied causal structure of metaphors. Some metaphors are “systemic” and highlight the complexity of relationships. For example, describing a national park as the “backbone” of the park system situates the park in a larger body of national parks, specifying a set of relationships between that park and the whole system. Other metaphors don’t enforce the sa...

BACKGROUND Eighty per cent of adolescents globally do insufficient physical activity. Parks are a popular place for adolescents to be active. However, little is known about which park features are associated with higher levels of park use by adolescents. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine which environmental park features, and combination of features, were correlated with higher levels of...

In the present study the freshwater algae of Siahdarvishan River were sampled on a montly basis from December 2007 through November 2008. Three sampling stations (Gaght roudkhan , Shahkezr dame and Talab laleh ) were chosen in the river. Some physical and chemical parameters (water temperature , total hardness , nitrate , nitrite, phosphate and pH) of water samples were measured. A to...

Stuart Walker University of Essex. Wivenhoe Park. Colchester. UK [email protected] Terry Quinlan University of Essex. Wivenhoe Park. Colchester. UK [email protected] Emilio Hugues Salas University of Essex. Wivenhoe Park. Colchester. UK [email protected] Rouzbeh Razavi University of Essex. Wivenhoe Park. Colchester. UK [email protected] Tahmina Ajmal University of Essex. Wivenhoe Park. Col...

INTRODUCTION Parks in the US and Australia are generally underutilised, and park visitors typically engage in low levels of physical activity (PA). Better understanding park features that may encourage visitors to be active is important. This study examined the perceived importance of park features for encouraging park-based PA and examined differences by sex, age, parental-status and participa...

INTRODUCTION Parks are important settings for increasing population-level physical activity (PA). The objective of this study was to evaluate Park Hop, an incentivized scavenger-hunt-style intervention designed to influence park usage, discovery, park-based PA, and perceptions of parks among children and adolescents in Greenville County, South Carolina. METHODS We used 2 data collection metho...

Background Little research has comprehensively explored how park features, quality indicators, and neighborhood environments are associated with observed park usage and physical activity (PA). This case study examined whether weekday park usage and PA differ by neighborhood type, across numerous categories of park features, and according to park feature condition and cleanliness. Methods Dire...