Determination of optimal cropping pattern is essential for arid and semiarid regions with deficit water resources. Fars province is located in the southern part of I.R. of Iran with mean annual precipitation from 50 to 1000 mm and in most parts of this province water resources for agriculture are deficit. Jahrom region with semi-arid climate is located in Fars province with mean annual rainfall...

abstract the lack of water is the most important problem in extensive landscape especially turfgrass in arid and semi arid regions. the root responses in native and commercial grasses under drought stress were investigated. this experiment was in a factorial experiment based on unbalanced completely random design on the year 2006. the specious that we used in this experiment included (i) commer...

chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) is mainly cultivated in arid and semi-arid agricultural systems. drought stress is a major factor delimiting maximum yield. this research evaluated the effects of drought stress treatments on expression of cu/znsod as a gene involving in drought tolerance by real time pcr technique. to find the probable relationship between the molecular and physiological effects o...

The reproductive ecology of the freshwater fish Cichla monoculus Spix, 1831 (Osteichthyes: Cichlidae) was investigated in the Campo Grande Reservoir, Northeast Brazil. Rainfall, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and electrical conductivity of the water were recorded monthly. Fish collected on a monthly basis were measured, weighted, dissected, sexed and the stage of maturation of the gonads wer...

Drought is an important factor limiting crop production in arid and semi-arid conditions. Drought indices which provide a measure of drought based on yield loss under drought condition in comparison to normal condition was used for screening drought-tolerant genotypes. This study was conducted to determine drought tolerant genotypes with high yield in stress and non-stress conditions. Ten barle...

A model analysis of climate and CO2 controls on tree growth in a semi-arid woodland G. Li, S. P. Harrison, and I. C. Prentice Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences (SAGES), Reading University, Reading, UK AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystem and the...

A new disturbance automated reference toolset (DART) was developed to monitor human land surface impacts using soil-type and ecological context. DART identifies reference areas with similar soils, topography, and geology; and compares the disturbance condition to the reference area condition using a quantile-based approach based on a satellite vegetation index. DART was able to represent 26-55%...

The aim of this research was to determine the effective drought indices such as NDVI, VCI, EVI, TVX, VTCI, VHI, TCI and NVSWI based on some criteria. The satellite-based drought indices have different data from vegetation and temperature conditions. Linear and trend analysis showed that satellite-based drought indices based on vegetation condition were not more efficient indices such as NDVI an...

encroachment on ecosystem functions in a semi-arid woodland David J. Eldridge*, Santiago Soliveres, Matthew A. Bowker and James Val Office of Environment and Heritage, c/o Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; Departamento de Biolog ıa y Geolog ıa, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Ex...

Water-use efficiency (WUE), defined as the ratio of net primary productivity (NPP) to evapotranspiration (ET), is an important indicator to represent the trade-off pattern between vegetation productivity and water consumption. Its dynamics under climate change are important to ecohydrology and ecosystem management, especially in the drylands. In this study, we modified and used a late version o...