With limited financial resources available for habitat restoration, information that ensures and/or accelerates success is needed to economize effort and maximize benefit. In the Central Valley of California USA, riparian habitat has been lost or degraded, contributing to the decline of riparian-associated birds and other wildlife. Active restoration of riparian plant communities in this region...

Forest fires are increasingly becoming the cause of destruction a particular ecosystem or landscape, restoration which takes quite long time. Research on pyrogenic succession is one urgent tasks in modern science. In course this work, an analysis vegetation territory Barguzin Nature Reserve was carried out. After grass-roots fire ecological trails Shumilikha River valley and Davshinsky pillars,...

In 1998 a 260-kilometer stretch of the newness of UNESCO's 'cultural landscape' classification, and concerns about nuclear power generation along the river, this nomination stalled in the international committee. French officials turned to digital media as a way of explaining the merits of their nomination, and as an aid for coordinating nlultiple agencies' efforts in plans for the region's fut...

Following the implementation of two dams in the Senegal River, entomological and parasitological studies were conducted in three different ecological zones in the Senegal River Basin (the low valley of Senegal River, the Guiers Lake area and the low valley of Ferlo) every 3 month in June 2004, September 2004, December 2004 and March 2005. The objective of this work was to study the influence of...

A new species of the genus Perigrapha, P. yasawii sp. n. is described from Syrdarya river valley, South Kazakhstan. The adults and male genitalia of the new and related species are illustrated.

Geobacillus stearothermophilus strains 22 and 53 were isolated from sediment samples isolated from the Garga hot spring (72°C) located in the valley of the river Barguzin (the Baikal region, Russian Federation) (54°19'3.72″N, 110°59'38.4″E).

Awareness of the urban population on the potential environmental and human health risks resulting from and consuming vegetables polluted with heavy metals from Msimbazi river, Dar es Salaam city, Tanzania was investigated. Results show that more than 71% of the 35 respondents use Msimbazi river as a major source of water for vegetable irrigation. High levels of chromium, lead and copper have be...

Abstract A geoarchaeological coring survey of the Forum Boarium has shed considerable light on Rome's archaic landscape. We present first empirical evidence that substantiates ancient and modern assumptions about existence a river harbour ford in early Rome. Prior to growth city, riverbank — reconstructed as high ledge at base Capitoline Hill low-lying shore north Aventine was particularly adva...

Over the past decade, rapid landscape pattern change has taken place in many arid and semi-arid regions of China, such as the Yellow River Basin. In this paper, landscape evolution was investigated by the combined use of satellite remote sensing, geographic information system (GIS) and landscape modelling technologies. The aim was to improve our understanding of landscape changes so that sustai...

Realistic terrain models are required in many applications, especially in computer games. Commonly, procedural models are applied to generate the corresponding models and let users experience a wide variety of new environments. Existing algorithms generate landscapes immediately with view-dependent resolution and without preprocessing. Unfortunately, landscapes generated by such algorithms lack...