due to the different factors and complexity of their effects on healthy and sustainability of urban forest, this study has been tried by means of determining effective factors in ecosystem, and dividing sorkhe hesar man made forest park to homogeneous units according to natural factors (slope, aspect, high, soil depth, mixture and pure planting system) and human factors (amount of irrigation an...

How " One Health " Connects Humans, Animals, and Ecosystems Writer Wendee Nicole traveled to Uganda to report this story under the Mongabay.org Special Reporting Initiatives Program. She tracked chimpanzees and mountain gorillas, and spent time with the Batwa people, " conservation refugees " living outside their former forest home. Right: A mother gorilla and her baby cross a creek in the park.

Center for Women’s Health (G.E.H.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048; Department of Medical and Scientific Services, Quintiles Inc. (C.L.H.), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-3979; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (C.L.H.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710; and Department of Pathology (J.M.C.), Wake Forest University Schoo...

a Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze, Via Calepina 14, 38122 Trento, Italy Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, c/o Udzungwa Mountains National Park, P.O. Box 99, Mang’ula, Tanzania Department of Wildlife Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3073, Morogoro, Tanzania Centre for Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiks...

Andrew Liebhold,1 Walter D. Koenig,2 and Ottar N. Bjørnstad3 1Northeastern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505; email: [email protected] 2Hastings Reservation, University of California, Berkeley, Carmel Valley, California 93924; email: [email protected] 3Departments of Entomology and Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 168...

The female of Sinopoda serrata (Wang, 1990) is described for the first time from Tiantangzhai National Forest Park, Hubei province, China. This species has been recorded from the region of Central China. Morphological descriptions and illustrations of this species are given.

A new genus of oribatid mites of the family Tetracondylidae, Umashtanchaeviella gen. n., with type species Umashtanchaeviella plethotricha sp. n., is proposed and described from forest litter, the Bu Gia Map National Park, southern Vietnam. The new genus is distinguishable from other otocepheoid genera by the presence of notogastral plethotrichy.

The Mesoamerican damselfly genus Amphipteryx includes four species: Amphipteryx agrioides (Mexico), A. chiapensis (Mexico), A. meridionalis (Honduras) and A. nataliae (Verapaz, Guatemala). We describe a fifth species, Amphipteryx jaroli, from the cloud forest in Pico Bonito National park, Honduras. Additionally we include an up to date key of all species in the genus for both sexes.

1 Research ecologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 1731 Research Park Dr., Davis, CA 95618. 2 Information Center for the Environment, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, One Shields Ave., University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616. 3 National coordinator for experimental forests and ranges, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ...

Floristic composition and dispersal syndromes were determined along one year in an open ombrophilous forest fragment in the Municipal Park of Maceió, Alagoas State, Brazil. A total of 178 species belonging to 61 families were examined. Fabaceae was the most species-rich family, with 24 species. Among sampled species, 123 had their syndromes of diaspore dispersal determined, and most of them (69...