overgrazing, via harvesting of forage species and decrease the other herbs, is of progressive factors in biodiversity destroying. in order to investigate the animal grazing impacts on changing of plant structure and diversity, we selected the comparison between this effect with exclosure area, and proving of the excluded area effects on plant diversity; two sites of kojour rangeland, mazandran ...

background and objectives: mental health is one of the most important components of healthy life. culture, particularly religious orientation, is one of the factors whose role in promoting mental health is increasingly being emphasized. the aim of this study was to investigate correlation between religious orientation and mental health among the staff of pars special economic energy zone (pseez...

bendway weirs are an important tool in multi-purpose erosion control and are implemented to control erosion, restore streams, and improve habitat. these structures create a hydraulic effect that reduces erosion on the outer bank of a bend by reducing flow velocities near the outer bank and reduce the concentration of currents on the outer bank creating better current alignment through the bend....

in order to determine optimum landuses (in accordance with natural capability) and improve the current land management, landuse planning process was applied by using gis. within the framework of system analysis approach basic ecological and socio-economic , data were mapped. the mapped data were digitized and imported to idrisi and arc/info to build a database ,along with other descriptive data...

the main objective of this research was the measurement of soil characteristics, land evaluation and determination of potential yield of sugar beet in yekanat plain of marand. for doing this, firstly, yield potential of sugar beet was estimated by fao method and secondly land evaluation of different soil units for sugar beet cultivation was determined by parametric method. results showed that m...

zygophyllum atriplicoides is one of the most important rangeland plants that often seen as associated species and rarely seen as the dominant species in ranglands rangelands which is very critical for soil  in starting and ending points of each transect. measured soil properties (included gravel, texture, organic matter, lime, ph and electrical conductivity) and physiography (elevation and slop...

Extensive research on bender element tests has been carried out by many researchers, but precise guidelines for carrying out such tests have not yet been established. It is often recommended that, when using a particular bender element test for the first time on a particular soil to determine its small strain dynamic properties, several methods should be tried and the results compared in order ...

the response of karoun basin in lumped and semi-distributed simulation were compared. also, the flood intensity of the sub-basins and the effects of physical parameters on flood hydrograph have been investigated. results demonstrated that there was no significant difference between the characteristics of flood hydrograph in lumped and semi-distributed simulation. also, results showed that the f...