Abstract Understanding the response of a catchment is crucial problem in hydrology, with variety practical and theoretical implications. Dissecting role sub-basins helpful both for advancing current knowledge physical processes improving implementation simulation or forecast models. In this context, recent advancements sensitivity analysis tools could be worthwhile bringing out hidden dynamics ...

Abstract The runoff from the Upper Indus River Basin (UIB) is considered vital for sustainable water supply and agriculture. Climate change may alter affect availability of water. This study employs a hydrologic model climate projections fine-resolution Meteorological Research Institute-Atmospheric General Circulation Model (MRI-AGCM) (0.1875°) to assess impacts in future (2075–2099) on flows U...

Abstract. Water management in sub-Saharan African river basins is challenged by an uncertain future climatic, social and economical patterns potentially causing diverging water demands availability, multi-stakeholder dynamics, resulting evolving conflicts tradeoffs. In such contexts, a better understanding of the sensitivity to different sources uncertainty can support policymakers identifying ...

Blastomyces dermatitidis and Blastomyces gilchristii are dimorphic fungal pathogens that cause serious pulmonary and systemic infections in humans. Although their natural habitat is in the environment, little is known about their specific ecologic niche(s). Here, we analyzed 25 microsatellite loci from 169 strains collected from various regions throughout their known endemic range in North Amer...

Abstract The experiences from recent urban flooding events suggest that the conventional centralized detention systems based on size expansion with minimum costs need to accommodate extreme exceeding their design capacity. This study investigated resilience effects of decentralized address in areas. An integrated flood measure integrates regional performance sub-basins a control system was prop...

Nonnative invasive species are one of the main global threats to biodiversity. The understanding of the traits characterizing successful invaders and invasion-prone ecosystems is increasing, but our predictive ability is still limited. Quantitative information on biotic homogenization and particularly its temporal dynamics is even scarcer. We used freshwater fish distribution data in the Iberia...

Drought is one of the most complex and threatening disasters, defined as a period drier-than-normal conditions which results in water-related problems. In addition to climate variation, human activities can cause or intensify drought through groundwater overextraction, unsupervised expansion agricultural lands, etc. One prime example such has been observed Zayandehrud River basin central Iran. ...

This article analyses the religious sub-cultures of youth who live in Mashhad. The main question of this research is about youth classification and their beliefs, values and norms. Statistical population is chosen from the youth who are 15 to 29 years old and 600 persons are regarded as the sample study. In the research method is survey and data gathering instrument is aresearcher-made question...

Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was employed to characterize species and populations of Astyanax, a Neotropical freshwater fish genus. Samples of five species, A. altiparanae, A. fasciatus, A. lacustris, A. scabripinnis paranae and A. schubarti, from the Upper Paraná and São Francisco river basins were analyzed. Two out of the ten restrictio...