Mountain wetlands in Mediterranean regions are particularly threatened in agricultural environments due to anthropogenic activity. An integrated study of source-to-sink sediment fluxes was carried out in an agricultural catchment that holds a small permanent lake included in the European NATURA 2000 Network. More than 1000 yrs of human intervention and the variety of land uses pose a substantia...

The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of low-dose acetazolamide (125 mg twice daily) for the prevention of acute mountain sickness (AMS). The design was a prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in the Mt. Everest region of Nepal between Pheriche (4243 m), the study enrollment site, and Lobuje (4937 m), the study endpoint. The participants were 197 he...

S U M M A R Y We present a semi-analytic iterative procedure for evaluating the 3-D deformation due to faults in an arbitrarily heterogeneous elastic half-space. Spatially variable elastic properties are modelled with equivalent body forces and equivalent surface traction in a ‘homogenized’ elastic medium. The displacement field is obtained in the Fourier domain using a semi-analytic Green func...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to document link between hyperventilatory capacity and risk for developing acute mountain sickness (AMS). METHODS This study was carried out at Karakorum Mountain ranges (Northern areas of Pakistan) from March till July 2004. 54 healthy male subjects were enrolled in this study. Arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) of the subjects was measured by the pulse oxi...

Aiming to elucidate whether large-scale dispersal factors or environmental species sorting prevail in determining patterns of Trichoptera species composition in mountain lakes, we analyzed the distribution and assembly of the most common Trichoptera (Plectrocnemia laetabilis, Polycentropus flavomaculatus, Drusus rectus, Annitella pyrenaea, and Mystacides azurea) in the mountain lakes of the Pyr...

OBJECTIVE To establish diagnostic criteria for acute mountain sickness (AMS) in preverbal children. DESIGN Nonrandomized control trial. SETTING Ambulatory. PARTICIPANTS Children aged 3 through 36 months and adults from the Denver, Colo, area (altitude, 1610 m). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The Lake Louise Scoring System was modified, using a fussiness score as the headache equivalent and a ped...

The study area is located in the Eastern Anatolian Plateau found Alpine-Himalayan fold mountain belt. Engil River Upper Basin (Güzelsu) within Lake Van Closed Basin, largest soda lake this belt terms of volume and area. This aims to investigate geomorphologic evolution Güzelsu support development with morphometric analysis. With aim, a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was created aim quantifying e...

Benson, L., Currey, D., Yong Lao and Hostetler, S., 1992. Lake-size variations in the Lahontan and Bonneville basins between 13,000 and 9000 14C yr B.P.. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 95: 19-32. Recessions of Lakes Lahontan and Bonneville that commenced ~ 13,500 ~4C yr B.P. were interrupted at i> 11,500 14C yr B.P. in the Lahontan basin and ~ 12,200 14C yr B.P. in the Bonneville b...