Showing 14 results for Fars Province
Kambiz Minaei,
Volume 3, Issue 1 (3-2017)
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The distribution of Dendrothrips aspersus Bhatti, a leaf-feeding thrips species, has so far been confined to India and Iran. Both sexes of the species were collected from olive suckers from Fars province, south of Iran. The male sex of Dendrothrips aspersus is recorded and described. The females had been previously collected on grasses in the same place, so the host association for this species is discussed briefly.
Abbas Amiri, Ali Asghar Talebi, Ehsan Rakhshani, Hamidreza Hajiqanbar,
Volume 3, Issue 2 (6-2017)
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A survey was conducted to identify the parasitic wasps of the subfamily Campoleginae (Hym.: Ichneumonidae) in Fars province (southern Iran) during February 2011 – August 2013. Specimens were collected using Malaise traps and sweeping nets. Two new record species of the genus Cymodusa (Ichneumonidae, Campopleginae) were identified: C. longiterebra Dbar, 1985 and C. australis (Smits van Burgst, 1913). An identification key, morphological diagnosis and geographical distribution of Iranian Cymodusa are provided.
Afsaneh Afsharizadeh Bami, Kambiz Minaei,
Volume 6, Issue 1 (3-2020)
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Tenothrips hispanicus (Bagnall) was collected from Fars province, south of Iran. This is the first report of the species from Iran. Characterization of the species, comparison with its close species, T. frici (Uzel) as well as their illustrations are provided.
Kambiz Minaei,
Volume 6, Issue 4 (12-2020)
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Mycterothrips albidicornis as fourteen Mycterothrips species in Iran is recorded from Fars province, south of Iran. This is the first record of this species outside Europe. Morphological characterization of the species, comparison with its close species and its illustrations is provided. The color and structure variation of M. albidicornis in comparison with literature are discussed.
Volume 7, Issue 1 (1-2019)
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Aims: Floristic survey of an area is a useful tool for identifying the biodiversity, particularly endemic, resistant, and endangered species. In the current study, plant species were classified to describe the flora of Galehdar watershed in Southern Fars Province.
Materials & Methods: The environmental data including climate, geology, and topography characteristics were obtained from Iran Meteorological Organization (IMO), Geological Survey & Mineral Explorations of Iran (GSI), and National Cartographic Center (NCC), respectively. The specimens of the study area were collected, identified, and classified according to Raunkiaer's method and life-form class.
Findings: The flora of study area includes 164 species belonging to 129 genera and 55 families, which most frequent species belong to Asteraceae (25 species), Papilionaceae (21 species), and Poaceae (11 species).
Conclusion: The chorological studies indicated that 57.9%, 12.8%, and 29.3% of species belong to Irano-Turanian, Sahara-Seindian, and Irano-Turanian, Sahara-Seindian zone, respectively.
Volume 7, Issue 1 (1-2019)
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Aims: The ecology of Maharlu Lake is of great importance, especially in relation to the continuous addition of a reasonable volume of municipal and industrial effluents to it. To improve our knowledge about lake's ecology, mineral nutrients and heavy metal concentrations, among some other physical and chemical factors, are investigated.
Materials & Methods: 3 stations were selected in the lake and critical factors were measured monthly from January 2000 to December 2001. Main physical and chemical properties included temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, CO2, conductivity, salinity, dissolved solids, and concentration of major ions, including carbonate and bicarbonate, phosphate, nitrite and nitrate, calcium and total hardness, chloride, and alkalinity, and heavy metals as Co, Cd, Pb, and Hg.
Findings: Averages of pH, dissolved oxygen, salinity, electrical conductivity, and dissolved CO2 were 7.9, 2.9mgL-1, 290gL-1, 375mscm-1, 342mgL-1, and 63mgL-1, respectively. The highest concentrations of heavy metals were 23μgL-1 for As, 303μgL-1 for Co, 970μgL-1 for Cd, 8510μgL-1 for Pb, and 25μgL-1 for Hg.
Conclusion: Essential factors of the lake are in accordance with the soil of the catchment area, but they are in many cases altered under local attributes like precipitation, irradiation, evaporation, and deposits, as well as living elements of the lake’s ecological network, as the consequences of activities of bacteria in biological processing of nitrogen and phosphorus, etc. After this research, Maharlu Lake was totally dried up, never filled again. So, the results of this investigation can be regarded as the last record of the lake situation prior to its current complete drought condition.
Volume 9, Issue 1 (4-2009)
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Intensive usage of farm inputs has resulted in environment pressure. The pressure is mainly due to the widely use of chemical inputs and the overdraft of groundwater resources. So, there is a conflict between environmental objectives in the form of lowering resources use and farmers’ objectives in form of maximizing production by using more inputs.
In this study, environmental and farmers’ objectives are considered by using multi objective programming. Environmental objectives include the reduction of water, chemical fertilizer, and pistons consumption and farmer' objectives consist of increasing gross return and decreasing risk. The data required to this study are collected from Marvdashst agricultural crops farmers in Fars province.
Based on the results, there are trade offs among objectives and a desired combination of objectives. The findings show that the crops of cucumber, canola and barley are consistent with both environmental policy makers and farmers’ considerations. Onion and wheat crops are important from the farmers’ point of view rather than environmental policy makers. Rice, maize and hay maize crops have no priority to cultivate.
Volume 10, Issue 44 (5-2022)
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This research has been carried out based on an analytical-descriptive method focusing 4391 couplets common among the folklore of Fars province. This study also analyzes the frequencies of the elements including the one who curses, the one who is cursed and the cause of curse. Then, they are analyzed from the statistical point. Finally, the reflection of these elements and gender has been heeded in the field of the folklore culture. The findings of this research indicate that in the poems considered in this study, all the ones who curse are human and half of the beings who are cursed are non- human. This could be as a result of the connection between the curse reaction and human speech against human factors, obstacles, and the projection of guilt on non-humans. In the couplets, the lover has the most reflection (82%) out of the nineteen groups of the ones who curse and the ones who are loved have got 34% of the ones who are cursed. From the gender perspective, women are the ones who are cursed the most. The aim specification of the male oriented society is that men are arrogant and are weak against the obstacles, whereas women are patient and are loyal toward their romantic relationship. Nonetheless, it may reveal the denial of woman's right to complaint. It also confirms the one sidedness of romantic relationship in a male oriented society
Najmeh Kiany, Marjan Seiedy, Masoud Hakimitabar, Martin Husemann,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (3-2025)
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We here present the first record of Parawenhoekia aginapaica (Haitlinger, 1999) from Iran, which also represents the first record for the genus of the whole continent (Asia). The specimens were collected in association with an Oedipodinae grasshopper of the genus Aiolopus (Orthoptera: Acrididae). The genus Parawenhoekia Paoli, 1937 has only been known from three Mediterranean countries so far (Italy, Cyprus, and Montenegro) and hence our finding represents a large area extension. This study provides new metric and meristic data and supplements the current knowledge on the species based on new specimens of P. aginapaica collected from Khumeh Zar, Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. Photographs of important characteristics are provided. A key to the world species of Parawenhoekia is given.
Volume 11, Issue 2 (3-2020)
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surveying the content of Fars local periodical literatures at the late of Qajar and the beginning of Pahlavi shows that women had an effective role in the political and social activities like as the anti-authoritarian and constitutionalist movement and they had could raise their level of political and social awareness. Women in the form of communities and associations and using the magazines which were the most prevailing device at that time, tried to implement the changes in full for the society. Such efforts resulted in political and social awareness of Fars women and the whispering of the issue of women's social rights. Fars province women, through numerous articles of magazines, and for the first time acquainted with the women rights such as the right to education, the right to trade, etc. and gradually they sought to earn the aforementioned rights in the realm of action. The article is concerned on the extension of press and its influence on the process of political-social awareness and women's identity formation to assert their basic rights. The findings of the study show that the Fars press at this era was essentially self-disciplinary with the continuous pursuit of social and political rights for women and greatly assisted women to identify their rights and being socialized. The research method, since the main sources of research in the press, is based on textual analysis, which can be considered as a deeper level of descriptive-analytical method that ultimately leads to appropriate explanations.
Volume 12, Issue 55 (3-2024)
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Considering different definitions of game, one can categorize them into different types. Inevitably, games have influenced everyone's life at different ages. Games not only entertain individuals, but also reflect the concerns and problems of life. Furthermore, players both repeat such concerns and transmit them, too. ''Poetry'' is one of the most important means of transmitting elements. This element can be changed based on the time and place and it can be compatible accordingly. This research has been done based on descriptive- analytical method and it has classified and considered the play-songs of the people of Fars. The results show these songs used in those games with two or more groups of audiences and mostly considered as non-actional/ verbal games which are constructed on four principals of repetition, dialogue, teasing and consonance. Also, they were counted in counter side of actional games. This spectrum of play-songs (verbal to action) also fits with the element of age because the tendency of young people is more towards verbal games as they get older, they move towards action games. Another point is the poem which is the game and is not part of it, that it is in the four initial categories of game. It is underlined that poem is so dominant in the folklore life. Another is that many of the action games have rules and frameworks in poems and these rules are included in seven groups such as: calling out for game, role calling, choosing the head of the game, starter and fellow, selecting the fired one or the reserved one, punishment, not paying the penalty and announcing the end of the game. The players should accept and perform the rules. The order of these rules and in general, all the songs of the game played a big role in the socialization of the players.
Volume 14, Issue 6 (11-2012)
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Petri disease is responsible for grapevine decline and occurs wherever grapevines (Vitis vinifera) are cultivated. Phaeoacremonium species are among the principal hyphomycetes associated with Petri disease. During 2009, a field survey was conducted throughout different vineyards in the Fars province of Iran in order to determine the fungal pathogens associated with the vine decline observed in the region. Samples were taken from grapevines showing yellowing, interveinal chlorosis, leaf necrosis, reduced growth, wilting, wood necrosis and streaking, and xylem discoloration symptoms in cross section. Isolations were made from symptomatic wood tissues from cordons and trunks on malt extract agar supplemented with 1 mg ml-1 streptomycin sulphate (MEAS) and potato dextrose agar (PDA) media. Based on morphological and molecular characteristics two species of Phaeoacremonium, Phaeocremonium mortoniae and Pm. inflatipes, were isolated and identified from grapevines showing yellowing, slow dieback, stunted growth, and reduced foliage in Bavanat (Fars province, south-western Iran). Pathogenicity tests were conducted on rooted grapevine cuttings (cv. Askari) under greenhouse conditions. Based on the results of pathogenicity tests, both tested Phaeoacremonium species were pathogenic and caused significant vascular discoloration in inoculated cuttings four months after inoculation. The fungi were reisolated from the margins of the lesion and healthy tissue, completing Koch’s postulates. Based on our knowledge, this is the first report of Pm. mortoniae and Pm. inflatipes causing grapevine Petri disease in Iran.
Volume 25, Issue 1 (1-2023)
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Leptus (Leptus) hajiqanbari sp. nov. (Acari: Erythraeidae), detached from unknown Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from Jahrom City, Fars Province, Iran, is described and illustrated based on the larva. This species belongs to the anomalus species group and iguacuicus species subgroup which can be identified based on the characters as follows: Palpal femur with one seta, palpal genu with two setae, four setae between coxae II and III and sensillary setae setulose throughout the length. A key to species of iguacuicus species subgroup is presented.
Volume 26, Issue 1 (1-2024)
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A well-designed Agricultural Extension System (AES) can facilitate transitions towards sustainable agriculture. However, in most developing countries, AES has failed to promote sustainable agricultural development. The New Agricultural Extension System (NAES) was initiated to facilitate agricultural development in Iran. However, there is still no definite reflection on the influences of NAES on agricultural development. Therefore, this research aimed to evaluate the performance of NAES. To ensure an integrative and holistic analysis of the NAES’s performance, the Complexity Theory (CT) and Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) approaches were used. To gather data, survey research was conducted in Fars Province, southern Iran. A multi-stage random sampling was used to identify the designated extension agents. The findings indicated that effective implementation of the NAES needs facilitated interaction through network mediation ( X = 71.6), creation of an enabling context for the delivery of extension services ( X = 66.6), improved communication and marketing infrastructures ( X = 72), development of a value chain ( X = 71.4), acceptance of self-organization ( X = 67.8) and adoption of complexity-aware management ( X = 66). The results also identified the hindering effects of demographic, structural and psychological factors on the practical application of CT and AIS principles. Some recommendations and implications are offered to improve the effectiveness of NAES.
