the functional response of aphidius ervi to different sitobion avenae densities on two wheat cultivars (sardary and alvand) was examined in laboratory conditions. experiments were carried out in test tubes on an f2 lab generation without wheat clusters and also on f2 and f5 generations in pots using wheat clusters. in the tubes, female wasps were exposed to aphid densities of 2, 4, 7, 14, 28, 3...

wheat is one of the most important food staff in consumption pattern of each country. more than 50 percent of energy is provided by bread in the developing countries. the aim of this study was measuring wheat losses during pre-harvest and harvest stages in chaharmahal and bakhtiari province of iran in year 2013. wheat losses at harvest stages were measured to wheat varieties in 2 levels of omid...

The karstic Rijab Spring with an average discharge of 3290 l/s is located in the Alvand River basin in the northwest of the Zagros, Iran, which drains Asmari formation. To investigate groundwater flow in the catchment area of the Spring, the physicochemical parameters include major cations and anions, discharge, EC, pH, and temperature were studied from September 2000-2002. The results indicate...

The plankton fauna of the state of Piauí, Northeastern Brazil, especially in the Parnaíba basin, is still poorly known; the results of most studies of the subject have not been published and can only be found in grey literature (unpublished scientific works), such as course completion work and consulting reports. Thus, this paper presents data from samples taken recently from different water bo...

background and objectives: medicinal plants are widely used by people in the treatment of various diseases. these resources are usually regarded as part of cultural traditional knowledge. the aim of this study was to identify the information about the medicinal plants used by indigenous people of some regions of hamedan province, iran. methods: the present ethnobotanical study was conducted in ...

Molecular microbial ecology studies have revealed remarkable prokaryotic diversity in extreme hydrothermal marine environments. There are no comparable reports of culture-independent surveys of eukaryotic life in warm, anoxic marine sediments. By using sequence comparisons of PCR-amplified small subunit ribosomal RNAs, we characterized eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal vent environments of G...

In this study, we estimate life history parameters and abundance for a protected jaguar population using camera-trap data from a 14-year monitoring program (2002-2015) in Belize, Central America. We investigated the dynamics of this jaguar population using 3,075 detection events of 105 individual adult jaguars. Using robust design open population models, we estimated apparent survival and tempo...

There are 22 species of Hamacantha registered from all over the world, and frequently from deep-waters, only two of which had previously been reported from the SW Atlantic. Here we describe a third species for this area, Hamacantha (H.) boomerang sp. nov., collected from deep-sea coral mounds at Campos Basin (off Rio de Janeiro state). We found oxeas 271-630 µm long, diancistras in three size c...

study area is located in west of iran with relatively rough topography. lithologic units in the region belong from jurassic and cretaccous till recent era. the study area of the alvand mountain region is related to the tectonic zone of the sanandaj-sirjan region and the area dominant neo-tectonic regime appears to be compressional-extensional type. one of the identification tools to find out th...