The social media network FacebookTM was used to gather information on the occurrence and geographical distribution of dusky grouper dermatitis, a skin lesion affecting the dusky grouper, Epinephelus marginatus. Dusky grouper are common targets for spear fishermen in the Mediterranean and by monitoring spearfishing activity in Libyan waters, it was possible to document skin lesions from their entries on Facebook. Thirty-two Facebook accounts and 8 Facebook groups posting from 23 Libyan coastal cities provided a retrospective observational data set comprising a total of 382 images of dusky grouper caught by spearfishing between December 2011 and December 2015. Skin lesions were observable on 57/362 fish, for which images were of sufficient quality for analysis, giving a minimal prevalence for lesions of 15.75%. Only dusky grouper exceeding an estimated 40 cm total length exhibited lesions. The ability to collect useful data about the occurrence and geographical distribution of pathological conditions affecting wild fish using social media networks demonstrates their potential utility as a tool to support epidemiological studies and monitor the health of populations of aquatic animals. To our knowledge, this represents the first time that such an approach has been applied for assessing health in a wild population of fish. arabic 29 English 133
Jamila Rizgalla(1-2016)

A “soil carbon hotspot” (SCH) is a geographic area having an abundance of soil carbon, and therefore higher ecosystem services value based on avoided social costs of CO2 emissions. Soil organic carbon (SOC), soil inorganic carbon (SIC), and total soil carbon (TSC) are critical data to help identify SCH at the farm scale, but monetary methods of hotspot evaluation are not well defined. This study provides a first of its kind quantitative example of farm-scale monetary value of soil carbon (C), and mapping of SCH based on avoided social cost of CO2 emissions using both Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database and field measurements. The total calculated monetary value for TSC storage at the Willsboro Farm based on the SSURGO database was about 7.3 million U.S. dollars ($7.3 M), compared to $2.8 M based on field data from averaged soil core results. This difference is attributed to variation in soil sampling methodology, laboratory methods of soil C analyses, and depth of reported soil C results. Despite differences in total monetary valuation, observed trends by soil order were often similar for SSURGO versus field methods, with Alfisols typically having the highest total and area-normalized monetary values for SOC, SIC, and TSC. Farm-scale C accounting provides a more detailed spatial resolution of monetary values and SCH, compared to estimates based on country-level reports in soil survey databases. Delineation and mapping of SCH at the farm scale can be useful tools to define land management zones, to achieve social profit for farmers, and to realize United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) based on avoided social cost of CO2 emissions. arabic 24 English 105
Elena Mikhailova, Christopher Post, Mark Schlautman, Gregory Post, Hamdi Zurqani(1-2020)

Abstract Laboratory experiment are conducted in the summer years (2010) to study the impact of adding a source of organic carbon (sawdust) on inorganic nitrogen in the soil Mixing (500 grams) soil texture sandy silt with rates by addition of compost poultry rates (0 - 15-30-60 ton/ ha), as well as the rates of carbon source sawdust (0.5-1%), where then mixed well with each other in order to become homogeneous, and placed in the pot and repeated three times each addition , just as the number of experimental units each experiment (180 experimental units), and incubated at room temperature while maintaining the moisture at field capacity gravimetric way through the different incubation periods, which is set in weeks (0-2-4-8-16 week) by using statistical decomposition split plot twice ( split-split-plot design) and determing the differences moral between averages using Duncan to isolate averages at the level of moral (5%) and analyze the results using a table (ANOVA), and then estimate the degree of interaction of soil (pH) and organic matter and nitrogen mineral and total ratio of carbon to nitrogen (C/N Ratio) during different incubation periods, The results showed fluctuations in the degree of interaction through different incubation periods were (pH) the highest value for (8.4pH) at the time of incubation (4-8 weeks) and the lowest value (7.8pH) at the time of incubation (16 weeks), the organic matter Tests showed an increase in organic matter with increased rates of adding compost and sawdust at the beginning of the period of incubation and decreases organic matter gradually with increasing duration of incubation (16 weeks) As a result of decomposition of organic matter by micro-organisms, while nitrogen mineral available results show an increased nitrogen available at the beginning of the period of incubation with increased rates of added fertilizer and organic sawdust With increasing time incubation fluctuation in the amount of nitrogen available Result of the succession of microbial occur collections and increasing the proportion of (C/N),The Results show in the amount of total nitrogen per transaction At the beginning of the period of incubation and after two weeks of incubation Results show increasing the amount of total nitrogen at a rate (60 ton / ha) and over a period of incubation at (16 weeks) results showed a decrease in the value of total nitrogen when treatment (60 ton / ha) and average (0.5%) sawdust, either carbon to nitrogen (C/N Ratio) Tests showed that the high proportion of carbon to nitrogen, with the rate Add compost and the proportion of sawdust at the beginning of the period of incubation with the passage of time and increase the period of incubation results show low (C/N Ratio) for each transaction with time as a result of mineral nitrogen liberate when the incubation period (4 weeks) and an increase of the period of incubation results show an increase ratio (C/N Ratio) for each transaction.
محمد الطاهر الفيتوري سالم (2013)