Endemic cushions of the Khorassan-Kopet Dagh floristic province show differential responses to future climate change [PDF]
Scientific ReportsClimate change negatively affects mountainous plants and leads to their range contraction or extinction. Cushion plants are the essential components of mountainous ecosystems.
Zohreh Atashgahi +4 more
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Late Barremian-Early Aptian Ammonites from the Tirgan Formation, Kopet-Dagh Sedimentary Basin, NE Iran [PDF]
Journal of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2019 During the recent field research on the Tirgan Formation in the west of Kopet-Dagh sedimentary basin, ammonite assemblages were obtained from the carbonate strata of this formation. This new finding is important for stratigraphical purpose.
Morteza Taherpour Khalil Abad +3 more
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Predicting range shifts of three endangered endemic plants of the Khorassan-Kopet Dagh floristic province under global change [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Endemic plants of the Khorassan-Kopet Dagh (KK) floristic province in northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and northwestern Afghanistan are often rare and range-restricted.
Mohammad Bagher Erfanian +3 more
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Two new species of the genus Acherontiella (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) from caves of the Alborz and Kopet Dagh mountains in Iran [PDF]
ZooKeysTwo new subterranean species of the genus Acherontiella Absolon, 1913 from Iran are described, illustrated, and morphologically differentiated from similar species. Acherontiella nezamdoosti sp. nov.
Mahmood Mehrafrooz Mayvan +1 more
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Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Fossil and archaeological evidence indicates that hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia occurred throughout the Pleistocene, including the expansion of Homo sapiens populations out of Africa.
Mohammad Javad Shoaee +8 more
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SOME MICROFOSSILS (DASYCLADALES, BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA, SPONGES) FROM THE UPPER JURASSIC MOZDURAN FORMATION (NE IRAN, KOPET-DAGH) AND THEIR BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPORTANCE [PDF]
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2019 The Mozduran Formation represents mainly carbonatic shallow-water deposits from the Kopet-Dagh basin of northeast Iran. Longtime considered to be of exclusively Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian) age, its ranging into the Early Cretaceous has been ...
FELIX SCHLAGINTWEIT +2 more
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Bispiraloconulus serbicus Schlagintweit, Bucur & Sudar, 2019 (arborescent benthic foraminifer) and Torremiroella hispanica Brun & Canerot, 1979 from the late Barremian of Kopet-Dagh sedimentary basin (NE Iran) and their palaeobiogeographic revisions [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2019 during micropaleontological investigations on the lower cretaceous successions of the tirgan Formation in Kopet-dagh sedimentary basin, some new achievements are yielded.
Taherpour-Khalil-Abad Morteza +4 more
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Diversity and Distribution Patterns of Endemic Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Iran: Implications for Conservation and Habitat Management. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Iran, with its unique climatic and topographic conditions, is home to about 8200 species of vascular plants. Approximately 2300 of the 8200 species are popularly characterized as medicinal or aromatic.
Hassanpouraghdam MB +5 more
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Investigation of Geological Diversity Based on the Degree of Sensitivity and the Amount of Equilibrium and Resilience of the Geosystem (Case study: The Eastern Kopet-Dagh Zone) [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2022 Geomorphological principles show that the earth's surface is not fixed and changes over time. The physical elements of the earth's surface, from microscopic components such as minerals to macroscopic phenomena such as landforms, are all part of ...
Sima Tavsoli, Adel Sepehr, Abbas Ghaderi
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Identifying high snakebite risk area under climate change for community education and antivenom distribution [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Snakebite is one of the largest risks from wildlife, however little is known about venomous snake distribution, spatial variation in snakebite risk, potential changes in snakebite risk pattern due to climate change, and vulnerable human population.
Masoud Yousefi +5 more
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