The growing expansion of agricultural activities without consideration of the potentialities and limitations of land constitutes a potential source of environment degradation. This work aimed to evaluate the physical proprieties of lands in the micro bosin of Una, Sapé in the state of Paraiba, Brazil, using the classification of the land use capacity . The area is located in the eastern part of...

Erosion is one of themost important natural hazard phenomena in theworld, and it poses a significant threat to Turkey in terms of land degredation and desertification. To cope with this problem, we must determine which areas are erosion-prone. Many studies have been carried out and different models and methods have been used to this end. In this study, we used a logistic regression to prepare a...

The present study of cladocera of the genus Chydorus from South Vietnam revealed a new species, C. idrisi sp. nov. and a rare species, C. breviceps (Stingelin, 1905). C. idrisi sp. nov. belongs to the C. eurynotus Sars, 1901 group, characterized by small labral plate with rounded tip and by absence of honeycomb sculpture on the valves. C. idrisi sp. nov. differs from other species of the group ...

[1] Recent and long term variations in ice extent on Kilimanjaro are investigated in the context of 20th century climate change in East Africa. Quickbird satellite data show that the areal extent of glaciers on Kilimanjaro is 2.51 km in February 2003. To assess glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro two glacier systems are identified: (1) plateau ( 5700 m) and (2) slope (<5700 m). Vertical wall retreat...

1 Disease Control Strategy Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, 4 Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania, 5 Department of Medical Parasitology, Dakar Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S...

BACKGROUND Effective malaria control requires information about intensity of transmission across large areas and populations. Estimates based on entomological factors lack precision and are not cost-effective to obtain. We tested altitude and rainfall measurements as correlates of transmission intensity in different ecological settings. METHODS We conducted 2 cross-sectional surveys of approx...

Ice fields on Kilimanjaro (5895 m a.s.l., Tanzania) are retreating and 85% of the ice cover has been lost since 1912. The degree to which this recession is exceptional during the Holocene is uncertain, as age control of the entire ice stratigraphy exists only for the very shallow and very bottom ice of the Northern Ice Field. This empirical evidence suggests that the Kilimanjaro ice cover may b...