We aimed to determine the presence of Ixodes ricinusticks in heavily populated areas of the Po River Valley after report of a Lyme disease case. Eighteen percent of ticks examined from 3 locations were positive for Lyme disease borreliae. Lyme disease was diagnosed for 3 workers at risk for tick bite.

Taking the Dadu River Basin in Danba area of Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province as research area, based on 2013 and 2016 Landsat8 remote sensing images, temperature vegetation drought index (TVDI) method is used to divide dry valley into 6 arid gradient regions. Using ArcGIS10.5 software Fragstats4.2 calculate landscape pattern different areas years, combined with survey results agricultural po...

Abstract The ancient Egyptian city of al‐Ashmūnayn (Minyā Governorate, Egypt) has been an important regional centre since at least the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2160 BC). It is assumed to have founded on banks Nile, although no scientific evidence was hitherto available support this claim. In multidisciplinary study, results a geoarchaeological survey were combined with study pottery fragments. Bore...

In the Leh valley, apart from river Indus, several nalas have a great significance on development of number villages and settlement areas. The present work is an effort to illustrate pivotal role Stakmo nala in establishment village. study also seeks emphasis necessity basin management sustain natural resources for existence villages. Various problems related with city its adjacent area been st...

Explaining the extent, causes, and consequences of biotic distributions in space is fundamental to our understanding of how species evolve and cope with particular environments. Yet, identifying extrinsic barriers to migration imposed by landscape structure and predicting their impacts on intraspecific genetic diversity remains a major challenge in population biology. In this study, 30 populati...

The Illinois River is a major contributor of nitrate-N to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, where nitrate is a leading cause of summertime benthic hypoxia. Corn-soybean production on tile-drained land is a leading source of nitrate-N in this river system, in addition to municipal wastewater discharge. We calculated annual nitrate-N loads in the Illinois River at Valley City from 197...

The crayfish fauna of West Virginia consists of 23 species and several undescribed taxa. Most survey efforts documenting this fauna have been conducted in lotic waterways throughout the Appalachian plateau, Allegheny Mountains, and Ridge and Valley physiographic provinces. Bottomland forests, swamps, and marshes associated with large river floodplain such as the Ohio River floodplain historical...

300 MW Baspa II is India’s largest private hydroelectric facility, located at the Baspa River which is an important left-hand tributary to the Sutlej River in the NW Himalaya (India). In this valley the Sangla palaeo-lake has been dammed around 8200 yr BP behind a rock-avalanche dam and Baspa II is located exactly on top of this palaeo-lake. This special location represents a very rare possibil...