جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « elevation » در نشریات گروه « زیست شناسی »

Today, human and wildlife conflict, especially big carnivores such as brown bear, is one of the most challenges and difficulties in biodiversity conservation. Increasing the conflicts have resulted in increasing the negative attitude of local people toward the wildlife and as a result of that leads to increasing poaching of carnivores, especially in an area such as Mazandaran Province which has a high density of human and wildlife. We conducted this study by identifying the area with a high conflicts between the bear and human and human assets in Mazandaran Province. Moreover, we used field observation data to diagnose the distribution of mountainous areas which are potentially exposed to bear attacks in the Province. We collected the bear damages data by questionnaire form and field surveys. Biogeoclimatic variables which were used in the analyses are elevation, distance to the village, the density of beehives, human footprint, the density of domestic animals and land use. We recorded 150 bear attacks to human and human properties which include 16 to human, 19 to domestic animals, 67 and 48 destruction of fruit gardens and beehives, respectively. According to the results, most conflicts are in the spring and autumn. The most important variables are elevation, distance to village and fruit gardens. According to the results, human-bear conflicts in the Mazandaran Province are in the elevation range between 150 to 3000 m. On the other hand, fruit gardens around the villages have a key role in attracting bears to human settlements.

Functional groups are defined as groups of species exhibiting similar responses to an environmental variables. The aim of this study was to investigate the response of plant functional groups to some environmental variables in Mountain forests of southern Zagros (Khuzsetan province- county baghmalek). Vegetation and environmental factors were sampled by 50 circular plots of 1000 m2 selective-randomly along an elevational gradient from 646 to 3172 m a.s.l. sampled vegetation were identified in terms of different growth Forms to woody (tree and shrub), herb and woody seedling (tree and shrub seedling) functional groups and the changes of these functional groups in relation to environmental variables were analyzed using Canonical Correspondence analysis. The results showed that all the functional groups of forest vegetation showed a statistically strong significant correlation with elevation, soil Electrical conductivity, soil available k and soil pH. Also woody functional group showed a correlation with Microbial biomass carbon, clay percentage, Aspect, Organic matter content, sand percentage, slope and Total of nitrogen, herbs showed a correlation with Soil organic matter, soil available p, Total of nitrogen, sand percentage, clay percentage, basal respiration, Bulk density and slope, while woody seedlings showed a correlation with aspect, Total of nitrogen, sand percentage, slope, Microbial biomass carbon and clay percentage. species diversity of woody functional group to 2350 m a.s.l were hight and then above 2350 m a.s.l were low. while herbs were lower diversity at intermediate elevations (1300-1600 m a.s.l) and above 2350 m a.s.l and seedlings had maximum diversity at intermediate elevations.