The maintenance of both spatial and genetic connectivity is paramount to the long-term persistence of small, isolated populations living in environments with extreme climates. We aim to identify the distribution of genetic diversity and assess population sub-structuring and dispersal across dwarfed desert populations of Crocodylus suchus, which occur in isolated groups, usually less than five i...

Natal homing is a hallmark of the life history of salmonid fishes, but the spatial scale of homing within local, naturally reproducing salmon populations is still poorly understood. Accurate homing (paired with restricted movement) should lead to the existence of fine-scale genetic structuring due to the spatial clustering of related individuals on spawning grounds. Thus, we explored the spatia...

The state-space of a discrete dynamical network is connected into basins of attraction, mathematical objects that can be computed and shown as graphs for small networks. Multiple attractors explain how the same genetic regulatory network can maintain different stable patterns of gene activation, the cell types in multi-cellular organisms. Ideas of modularity suggest that the overall genetic net...

the projected rainfall change under various scenarios is likely to have both positive and negative implications on agriculture and water supply because in rainfall pattern across the country. rise in rainfall is seen over all states except punjab, rajasthan and tamil nadu, which show slight decrease in precipitation in the future scenarios. marked increase in covering the western ghats and nort...

haraz-ghareh su is one of the seven sub-basins of the caspian basin, located on the southern shores of the caspian sea, and as such, is in danger of water crisis due to absence of proper systematic policy and strategy. in this study, the pressure factors on the haraz-ghareh su water resources were identified using dpsir model. then, the pressure parameters on the freshwater resources in the cas...

Basin forest cover is understood to influence stream baseflow in a variety of ways, most significantly via increased soil infiltration and increased evapotranspiration (ET). Extensive forestry experimentation has consistently demonstrated a negative relationship between forest cover and baseflow, attributed to ET losses associated with greater forest cover. However, it is unclear whether this r...

Although arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater in the Bengal Basin has received wide attention over the past decade, comparative studies of hydrogeochemistry in geologically different sub-basins within the basin have been lacking. Groundwater samples were collected from sub-basins in the western margin (River Bhagirathi sub-basin, Nadia, India; 90 samples) and eastern margin (River Meghna s...

Hydrological models are used to represent the rainfallrunoff and pollutant transport mechanisms within watersheds. Accurate representation of these dynamic and complex natural processes within a watershed is an important step in managing and protecting a watershed Artificial neural network (ANN) models are often used in hydrologic modeling. Typical ANN models are trained to use lumped data. How...