the aim of this study was to develop an optimal sustainable forest plantation based on goal programming and analytic hierarchy process (ahp) methods. this study was carried out in guilan province, north of iran. first of all, the ecological capability of the study area for plantation establishment/maintenance was evaluated based on multi-factor method and specific ecological makhdoum model by m...

in this study, the distribution, abundance and some growth parameters of spirlin, alburnoideseichwaldii in the tilabad stream in the golestan province was studied over 2009-2010. a totalof 535 samples of spirlins were collected by catching with electroshocker. a total number of205 samples was analyzed and the rest of the specimens were released. spirlin was found onlyin stations 1 and 2 (the he...

BACKGROUND Peak oxygen uptake (VO(2peak)) can be defined as the highest oxygen rate consumed during exhaustive or maximal exercise. The evaluation of the aerobic fitness can be expressed as relative to body mass, but this procedure may not fully remove differences when heavy subjects are assessed. Thus, the allometric scaling procedure is an attractive strategy to compare individuals with large...

BACKGROUND We tested the hypothesis that the fetal-placental relationship scales allometrically and identified modifying factors of that relationship. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among women delivering after 34 weeks but prior to 43 weeks' gestation, 24,601 participants in the Collaborative Perinatal Project (CPP) had complete data for placental gross proportion measures, specifically, placental we...

Metabolic rate of living organisms (energy produced per unit time) increases slower than organisms' mass. This phenomenon, when applied to different taxa, is called interspecific allometric scaling. Its causes remain unknown. Here we show that interspecific allometric scaling for multicellular organisms occurred as the result of evolution of organisms within the food chain, and certain mechanic...

Nonlinear regression is increasingly used to develop allometric equations for forest biomass estimation (i.e., as opposed to the traditional approach of logtransformation followed by linear regression). Most statistical software packages, however, assume additive errors by default, violating a key assumption of allometric theory and possibly producing spurious models. Here, we show that such mo...

Abstract Mussel shells are often found in archaeological excavations and can provide information useful for ecological reconstruction assessment of anthropogenic impact on waters. In this study, two sample groups swollen river mussel ( Unio tumidus ) which occurred during the Early Middle Ages (EMS) currently (MS) Oder estuary (Baltic basin) were compared. Allometric shell growth, morphological...

For the evaluation of changes in the carbon stock of living biomass, two methods are reported in the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: (1) the default method, which requires the biomass carbon loss to be subtracted from the biomass carbon increment for the reporting year; and (2) the stock change method, which requires two consecutive biomass carbon stock inven...

Four tree species were harvested periodically over a 13-year period from plantations in the humid lowlands of Costa Rica: Cedrela odorata, Cordia alliodora, Hyeronima alchorneoides, and Euterpe oleracea. The soil was a well-drained, volcanic alluvium, and high fertility coupled with 4 m of annual rainfall and high temperatures led to rapid growth rates; at age 13 many individual were >30 cm dbh...

Wei Sheng ZENG Shou Zheng TANG Zeng, Wei Sheng. Academy of Forest Inventory and Planning , State Forestry Administration, #18 Hepingli East Street, East District, Beijing 100714, China. E-mail address: [email protected]. Tang, Shou Zheng. Institute of Forest Resources Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, #1 Dongxiaofu, Xiangshan Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100091, China. E-mail a...