the rate of soil erosion and sediment yield estimation in the catchment areas is considered as an important factor for soil and water conservation practices. due to difficulties and restrictions in common soil erosion methods, applying a high accuracy method with lowest cost and time consuming would be necessary. assessment of soil loss in hilly areas with capacity of rang land that has changed...

The relationships between the structural variations of a fenisol and the plant parasitic nematode communities of sugarcane were studied along three transects. These transects, about 20 m long, started in horizon A and ended in a levelled area where horizon C began. Results were analysed with the Co-inertia analysis method, which allowed us to study simultaneously the soil and nematode data. Pro...

in order to evaluate the effects of forest road on regeneration and vegetation composition in district no. 2 shafaroud, a road was selected with the length of 400 m that the altitude, aspect, slope variations and species composition were similar. five transects in right and 5 transects in left side of road, were established as perpendicular. in each transect 5, 15, 25 and 35 m distances were de...

Marine debris is recognised globally as a key threatening process to marine life, but efforts to address the issue are hampered by the lack of data for many marine habitats. By developing standardised protocols and providing training in their application, we worked with >300 volunteer divers from 11 underwater research groups to document the scale of the subtidal marine debris problem at 120 si...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse marine ecosystems, providing numerous ecosystem services. This present study investigated relationship between coral reef condition and diversity abundance fishes, on a heavily fished East African at Gazi Bay, Kenya. Underwater visual censuses were conducted thirty 50 × 5 m belt transects to assess fishes. In parallel, 25-m length each same was recorded w...

Multigrid methods are among the fastest numerical algorithms for the solution of large sparse systems of linear equations. While these algorithms exhibit asymptotically optimal computational complexity, their efficient parallelisation is hampered by the poor computation-to-communication ratio on the coarse grids. Our contribution discusses parallelisation techniques for geometric multigrid meth...