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Vehicle movement data can be utilized for a number of spatio-temporal applications, which have been investigated mainly for urban settings. Yet, such applications are also valuable for nature parks that are constrained by sparse data and dynamic conditions. Accordingly, we design and develop an IoT-based DSS to support decision-making and analytics for the key stakeholders i.e., park administrators, visitors and vendors, in a nature park. Our design is based on sparse vehicle movement data collected at various gates within the park, using RFID tags on visitor vehicles and IoT sensors placed on the gates. Using graph analytics, visualization, and forecasting techniques, we develop capabilities for park management by administrators, as well as features for vendors to publish offers, and visitors to locate paths and vendors. Our preliminary investigations using vehicle movement data from a wildlife park in Thailand illustrate the initial contributions of our DSS and approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to present the interspecific relationships between fish and cormorants from Comana Pond and Putu-Greci ponds. Also, it is presented the dynamic of the ichtyofauna, during 2011-2017 years, in Comana Nature Park, on the watercourses of the Neajlov River, Comana Pond or Neajlov Delta, Gurbanu River and Putu-Greci Ponds. The Comana Pond, with area of 1200 hectares, in 2011 suffered a major intervention on the habitat characteristic of wetland, namely an ecological reconstruction, by constructing a low-rise dam. Reconstruction has been beneficial because permanent water glow has reached up to 40% of its surface, with plenty of high-glistening water in the pond, favoring bird species characteristic of the aquatic environment and including the ichtyofauna by expanding the feeding and reproduction habitat. By increasing the habitat characteristic of wetlands and by improving breeding and feeding conditions, Comana Pond has attracted an impressive number of characteristic bird species of the aquatic environment. Starting in 2015, it has mainly begun to monitor the ichthyofauna in all wetlands of the Comana Nature Park, including the Comana Pond, and secondly it started to monitor the species of birds of prey, focusing on the Phalacrocorax carbo and Microcarbo pygmaeus. Phalacrocorax carbo is listed under the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement and in Europe is listed in 245 Special Protection Areas. Microcarbo pygmaeus is listed on Appendix I of the Convention on Migratory Species and is covered by the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement. It is listed under Annex II of the Bern Convention and Annex I of the EU Birds Directive, and it is currently listed within 182 Important Bird Areas in Europe. According with results, during the monitored period it has increase the number of fish and bird species. The monitoring of predatory bird species provides valuable information about ichthyofauna. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flood protection in the Republic of Croatia is a very complex process due to the vast hilly and mountainous areas with high rainfall intensities, large lowland river valleys, cities and valuable goods of the potentially affected areas, and lack of built and maintained protective systems. It is estimated that flooding potentially threatens about 15% of state land territory of which the greater part is now protected with different levels of security. Natural floods which occur in Croatia can be divided into five basic groups: river flooding due to heavy rains and/ or rapid melting snow and torrential flooding of small streams due to the short-term high-intensity rainfall, flooding in karst areas due to heavy rains and/or rapid snow melt and insufficient capacity of permeable natural sinks, flooding inland waters in lowland areas, glacial floods. Flood protection measures to be implemented are: structural measures and non-structural measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This avifauna study was conducted at Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia on the 17th-18th October 2009. A total of eighteen individuals of birds representing 13 species from 9 families were recorded. Birds were sample by utilizing standard mist nets (dimensions, 2.5 m × 9 m and 3 m × 14 m). The most abundance of species is Lanius tigrinus (Tiger Shrike) and the Laniidae is the most abundance family. A new records of migratory species Terpsiphone atrocaudata (Japanese Paradise Flycatcher), a near threatened species that occurs in Taman Negara National Park, was a significant discovery in Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam, (TBNSA). The Evenness index (J' = 0.97) was high suggesting high bird diversity. The study indicates that the recreation forest of TBNSA is an important bird habitat, even though this nature park is surrounded by massive urban development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]