Omid Tabiee
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 19 October 2014
Abstract
The objective of this paper was to determine species diversity of wintering waterbirds from a ten-year (2002-2011) monitoring in Meyghan wetland. Data for calculating the estimates of biodiversity come from the midwinter census by using a total count from the department of the Markazi province's environment. ...
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The objective of this paper was to determine species diversity of wintering waterbirds from a ten-year (2002-2011) monitoring in Meyghan wetland. Data for calculating the estimates of biodiversity come from the midwinter census by using a total count from the department of the Markazi province's environment. Data analysis for determine species diversity carried out by using Ecological Methodology and SPSS software. During a 10 periods from 2002 to 2011, a total of 134350 wetland birds composed of 56 species from 6 orders and 16 families of the bird fauna of Iran were observed during the course of this study. The most common species counted was the Common Crane (Grus grus) with a total of 54000 individuals. The results indicated that among families of migratory, wintering waterfowl and waders in Meyghan wetland the large family was Gruidae with 40.19 percent abundance and the lowest was Haematopodidae and Burhinidae each one with 0.01 percent. The highest species richness recording in years of 2010 with 37 species in this year. The results showed that in this period wader's fauna with 62.1 percent and waterfowl fauna with 37.9 percent, respectively has the highest and lowest abundances. According to the results of species diversity and evenness the year of 2010 has the highest biodiversity of migratory, wintering waterfowl and wader's fauna in Meyghan wetland and the year of 2002, 2003 and 2008 has the lowest biodiversity (P < 0.05).
Omid Tabiee; Hadi Poorbagher; Hamed Rafiee
Abstract
The economic value of the sport fishing valuable species such as Caspian brown trout (Salmo caspius, Kessler, 1877), is estimated based on the determination of the amount of money that fishermen tends to pay for fish catching. The aim of this research was to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of anglers ...
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The economic value of the sport fishing valuable species such as Caspian brown trout (Salmo caspius, Kessler, 1877), is estimated based on the determination of the amount of money that fishermen tends to pay for fish catching. The aim of this research was to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of anglers to the conservation of the endangered Caspian brown trout, in order to determine the conservation value of Caspian brown trout. In order to do this research, from 2018 to 2020, 444 anglers were selected by random sampling method. Data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire comprising items about the angling demographic characteristics as well as their WTP for the protection of the endangered species of Caspian trout. Eventually, analysis of gathering data was carried out with applying a Logit model under maximum likelihood procedure by using SPSS (version 21) and Eviews (10) Software. The result showed that 75 percent of the anglers had a positive WTP for the protection of the endangered species of Caspian trout. The average payment of WTP for the monthly and annual protection value of Caspian trout was estimated 1979.2 and 23750.4 million RLs respectively, which is much higher than that of the penalty for illegal fishing (120.5 million RLs). According to the results of this research, the variables of the literacy level, income, job, membership in the environmental organization, species recognition and bid have positive effects on the WTP for the protection of endangered species of Caspian trout.
Omid Tabiee; Abdulah Yousefi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , December 2017, , Pages 119-126
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The objective of this study was to determine the level of Khuzestan people’s knowledge and willingness to pay towards the protection of the Persian Follow Deer (Dama dama mesopotamica (Brooke, 1875)) as endangered species, to recommend solutions that can improve management and protection of this ...
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The objective of this study was to determine the level of Khuzestan people’s knowledge and willingness to pay towards the protection of the Persian Follow Deer (Dama dama mesopotamica (Brooke, 1875)) as endangered species, to recommend solutions that can improve management and protection of this species. In this descriptive and analytical study, 600 people from Khuzestan province were chosen via the clustered random sampling. Data was collected by a questionnaire with a reliability of 0.78, consisting of questions about the people’s demographics as well as their knowledge and practice regarding conservation of Persian Follow Deer was completed for all the study population through interviews. Subsequently, descriptive statistics, x2, and Mann-Whitney test and kruscal-wallis test were employed for analysis using SPSS Software (version 21). The findings of this study showed that, 67 percent of the people had poor awareness about endangered species of Persian Follow Deer and 82.8% of people were not interested in supporting the preservation of this species. On the other hand, there was a significant correlation between knowledge and sex, awareness and levels of education and knowledge and age (P< 0.05). Consequently, with low- level knowledge of the people’s under the study about Persian Follow Deer protection and conservation, it seems advisable that regular and systematic training programs be devised in relation to population decrease prevention strategies such as practical classes on the protection of the population of this species.
Bejeli, Azadeh; Omid Tabiee
Volume 4, Issue 2 , December 2015, , Pages 53-61
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The aim of this study is to determine the level of people’s awareness and willingness towards the protection of Persian wild ass (Equus hemionus onager), to recommend solutions that can improve management and conservation of this species. In this descriptive-analytical study, 660 people from Fars ...
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The aim of this study is to determine the level of people’s awareness and willingness towards the protection of Persian wild ass (Equus hemionus onager), to recommend solutions that can improve management and conservation of this species. In this descriptive-analytical study, 660 people from Fars province were chosen via the clustered method. A questionnaire comprising items about the people’s demographics as well as their knowledge and cooperation regarding to protection of Persian wild ass was completed for all the study population through interviews. Subsequently, descriptive statistics, x2, t-test and Kruskal-wallis test were employed for analysis using SPSS Software (version 21). Result showed that, 63.6 percent of the cases had poor knowledge and 40.5% had no desire to support of this species. On the other hand, there were a significant correlation between knowledge and sex and awareness and age (P < 0.05). The highest level of knowledge was found among those with university levels of education. There was not a significant correlation between willingness to supports of Persian wild ass and educational levels (P < 0.05). Consequently, given that the majority of the people’s under study had poor knowledge and function about Persian wild ass protection and conservation, it seems advisable that regular and systematic training programs be devised in relation to population decrease prevention strategies such as practical classes on protection of Persian wild ass.
O. Tabiee; N. Ebrahimi
Volume 2, Issue 2 , September 2014, , Pages 23-33
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ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper was to determine species diversity of wintering waterbirds from a ten-year (2002-2011) monitoring in Meyghan wetland. Data for calculating the estimates of biodiversity come from the midwinter census by using a total count from the department of the Markazi ...
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ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper was to determine species diversity of wintering waterbirds from a ten-year (2002-2011) monitoring in Meyghan wetland. Data for calculating the estimates of biodiversity come from the midwinter census by using a total count from the department of the Markazi province's environment. Data analysis for determine species diversity carried out by using Ecological Methodology and SPSS software. During a 10 periods from 2002 to 2011, a total of 134350 wetland birds composed of 56 species from 6 orders and 16 families of the bird fauna of Iran were observed during the course of this study. The most common species counted was the Common Crane (Grus grus) with a total of 54000 individuals. The results indicated that among families of migratory, wintering waterfowl and waders in Meyghan wetland the large family was Gruidae with 40.19 percent abundance and the lowest was Haematopodidae and Burhinidae each one with 0.01 percent. The highest species richness recording in years of 2010 with 37 species in this year. The results showed that in this period wader's fauna with 62.1 percent and waterfowl fauna with 37.9 percent, respectively has the highest and lowest abundances. According to the results of species diversity and evenness the year of 2010 has the highest biodiversity of migratory, wintering waterfowl and wader's fauna in Meyghan wetland and the year of 2002, 2003 and 2008 has the lowest biodiversity (P < 0.05).
