Effect of Land-Use Change on Runoff in Hyrcania [PDF]
Land, 2022 Population growth and human activities have resulted in drastic changes in land use in many areas of the world, including the Hyrcania region in northern Iran. Land-use changes affect the hydrological processes of water basins.
Timo Pukkala, Pukkala Timo
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Soil fauna communities and microbial activities response to litter and soil properties under degraded and restored forests of Hyrcania [PDF]
IForest, 2021 Reforestation has long been the best practice to restore degraded forests due to human interventions. In this paper we investigated the effect of forest degradation (DNF) along with reforestation using 4 endemic species (Alnus subcordata, ASP; Acer ...
Vahid Etemad +2 more
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Antioxidant and antidiabetic activities of 11 herbal plants from Hyrcania region, Iran [PDF]
Journal of Food and Drug Analysis, 2016 In the present study, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging, α-amylase and α-glucosidase inhibition activities, and total phenolic contents of n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol extracts of various parts of Allium paradoxum, Buxus hyrcana, Convolvulus persicus, Eryngium caucasicum, Heracleum persicum, Pimpinella affinis, Parrotia persica,
Hossein Dehghan +2 more
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Past climatic refugia and landscape resistance explain spatial genetic structure in Oriental beech in the South Caucasus. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 We applied landscape genetics and ecological niche modeling, aiming at disentangling the historical and contemporary processes underlying the neutral genetic structure of Oriental beech across the South Caucasus. Our study is the first approximation of the potential risks involved, inducing far‐reaching conclusions about the need of maintaining the ...
Sękiewicz K +10 more
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A new genus and ten new species of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iran [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 One new genus (Sestakovaia gen. nov.; Liocranidae) and 10 new species of five families of spiders are described from different provinces of Iran: Brigittea avicenna sp. nov. (♂♀, Alborz and Kurdistan provinces) (Dictynidae), Micaria atropatene sp. nov. (♂
Alireza Zamani, Yuri M. Marusik
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Dynamic of Plant Composition and Regeneration following Windthrow in a Temperate Beech Forest. [PDF]
Int Sch Res Notices, 2014 The effects of soil pedoturbation (i.e., pit and mound microtopography, PM) on development of herbaceous plant species and woody species regeneration were examined in a temperate beech forest (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) in northern Iran. We recorded the vegetation in 20 pairs of disturbed and adjacent undisturbed plots and established a chronosequence of
Mollaei Darabi S, Kooch Y, Hosseini SM.
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The potential range of west Asian apple species Malus orientalis Uglitzk. under climate change [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyThe wild relatives of cultivated apples would be an ideal source of diversity for breeding new varieties, which could potentially grow in diverse habitats shaped by climate change.
Łukasz Walas +3 more
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Applied Environmental Research, 2022 The Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world and is facing an increasing risk of contamination. Sea-based and land-based hydrocarbons inputs are the most critical pollutants of the Caspian Sea.
Seyed Raheb Hosseini Bizaki +4 more
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ON THE ISSUE OF THE PARTHIAN PAHLAVS' SOCIO-POLITICAL NATURE [PDF]
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2021 The role of the high aristocracy, the so-called pahlavs, is undeniable in the history of the Parthian state. In the second half of III century BC the assistance of the pahlavs to the Arsacid dynasty considerably contributed to the establishment of the ...
ARTHUR MELIKYAN
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Springtails fauna (Hexapoda, Collembola) from different ecosystems of Behshahr and suburb (Mazandaran) with two new records from Iran [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2022 View on Scopus To expand study of Iranian Collembola fauna, the present study was conducted to investigate springtails fauna of different ecosystems such as forests, grasslands and gardens in the vicinity of Behshahr in the east of Mazandaran province ...
Samaneh Vahedi Moghadam +2 more
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