background rodents play a major role in economic losses and public health problems. these animals are considered as natural reservoir hosts of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl), one of the major health concerns in iran. conclusions the spatial and temporal monitoring of wild rodents will help to predict the potential zoonotic rodent-borne diseases. objectives this research was aimed to stu...

ecology of anopheles dthali was studied in bandar abbas county, where there is indigenous malaria. anopheles dthali plays as a secondary malaria vector in the region. it is active throughout the year in mountainous area with two peaks of activity, whereas in coastal area it has one peak. there is no report of hibernation or aestivation for this species in the re gion. precipitin tests on specim...

cantharidin is one of the most well- known compounds which has ever been fascinating in medicine due to its effects on human and domestic animals. it is produced naturally by beetles of family meloidae and oedemeridae, however a considerable spectra of other insects sequestered it too. cantharidin along with the other analogue, palasonin, which has a methyl group less than it, found in the hemo...

Background: What are now increasingly called individual based models (IBMs) have been used in ecology since the 1970s when theoretical ecology began in earnest. The best known examples from that time include the forest computer simulation model (named JABOWA) of Daniel Botkin (Botkin et al 1972) and the computer simulation model of Donald DeAngelis (DeAngelis et al 1991) for a freshwater fish c...

In this paper, the rare earth mining area of southern Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province, China is taken as a study area. And the ecology quality evaluation mode based on remote sensing technology was built up to assess the ecology equality status of the opencast mine area. In order to determine the influence sphere on the surrounding ecology quality, the buffer zone method was introduced. The result ...

The use of the metabolism concept, expanded to include aspects of livability, is applied to cities to demonstrate the practical meaning of sustainability. Its application in industrial ecology, urban ecology, urban demonstration projects, business plans and city comparisons are used to illustrate its potential. # 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

1 Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, 2 Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polarund Meeresforschung, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland, Germany, 3 Ecology and Biodiversity, Department Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 4 Departments of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW),...

The field of restoration ecology represents an emerging synthesis of ecological theory and concern about human impact on the natural world. Restoration ecology can be viewed as the study of how to repair anthropogenic damage to the integrity of ecological systems. However, attempts to repair ecological damage should not diminish protection of existing healthy ecosystems. Restoration ecology all...