Studies designed to measure anthropogenic impacts on marine benthic communities depend on the ability of taxonomists to consistently discriminate, identify, and count benthic organisms. To quantify errors and discrepancies in identification and enumeration, 20 samples were completely reprocessed by another one of four participating laboratories. Errors were detected in 13.0% of the data records...

in order to evaluate the effects of yield and yield components and weed diversity and density in row intercropping for wheat and canola, a field experiment was conducted based on a complete randomized block design with three replications at the agricultural research station of ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran during two growing seasons of 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. treatments included four pa...

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is a central issue in ecology, but how this relationship is affected by nutrient stress is still unknown. In this study, we analyzed the phytoplankton diversity effects on community biomass and stability along nutrient gradients in an artificial eutrophic lake. Four nutrient gradients, varying from slightly eutrophic to highly eutr...

Nowadays, multiagent systems became a widely used technology in everyday life. More studies are needed to evaluate these systems from different aspects such as evaluating agent dialogues, the participants to these dialogues, and the protocols governing the dialogues, etc. In this paper, we define new measures for dialogue games from an external agent’s point of view. In particular, two measurem...

This study aims to identify and determine species diversity and richness of the Gastropods of the intertidal zone of Bushehr seaport coastal area and assess the ecological status of this area using Welch index. Sampling was carried out at 6 stations in Bushehr seaport in the winter and summer seasons during 2013-2014. Bed sediment sampling was done three times in each station and Gastropod samp...

the aim of this investigation was to study the planktonic shrimp-like communities density and diversity in artificial reefs of khuzestan coasts, bahrakan waters (the persian gulf). sampling was conducted for one year from may 2011 to april 2012, monthly. zooplankton were collected with plankton tows using 300 μm mesh net. totally, two superfamily, penaeoidea, sergestoidea and one suborder carid...

Different approaches for the assessment of biodiversity bymeans of remote sensingwere developed over the last decades. A new approach, based on the spectral variation hypothesis, proposes that the spectral heterogeneity of a remotely sensed image is correlated with landscape structure and complexity which also reflects habitat heterogeneity which itself is known to enhance species diversity. In...

BACKGROUND Studies comparing the measurement properties of EQ-5D 3L (3L) and EQ-5D 5L (5L) are limited to specific patient populations with small sample sizes. Using a general population sample, we compared 3L and 5L in terms of their measurement properties and association with number of chronic conditions, including multimorbidity--the concurrent occurrence of two or more chronic conditions. ...