The magnitude and duration of ongoing global warming affects tree growth, especially in semi-arid forest landscapes, which are typically dominated by a few adapted species. We investigated the effect climatic control on growth Persian oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.), is dominant species Central Zagros Mountains western Iran. A total 48 stem discs was analyzed from trees at three sites, differing l...

Central Zagros region in Iran is a major hotspot of carbon storage and sequestration which has experienced severe land cover change recent decades that led to emission. In this research, using temporal Landsat images, maps were produced used Land Change Modeler predict changes 2020, 2030, 2040 2050 Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network Markov Chain techniques. Next, resultant as inputs Ecosystem...

DNA barcoding has been suggested as a universal tool for molecular species identification; however, it cannot be applied in cases when morphologically similar species share their DNA barcodes due to the common ancestry or mitochondrial introgression. Here we analyze the karyotype of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) morgani (Le Cerf, 1909) from the region of its type locality in the southern Zagros Mou...

Abstract The Zagros Mountains represent a strategic geographic region near the junction of Africa, Europe, and Asia, valleys within mountain range likely correspond to migration corridors used by archaic modern humans. Ghar-e Boof, key archeological site in southern Zagros, is located at an altitude 905 m.a.s.l. Dasht-e Rostam Fars Province, Iran. On basis lithic artifacts radiocarbon luminesce...

Changes in Species Diversity and Soil Seed Bank under the Exclosure Different Intensity of Livestock Grazing Deteriorated Forests Middle Zagros

Evaluation of Soil Moisture Changes Using the Balance Model in Zagros Oak Drying Forests (Case study: Melah Siah Forest - Ilam)

Solgi or Sharif Abad tepe (A&B) is one of the larger settlement sites Gamasi-Ab river basin in Nahavand plain. This site lies at intersection old ancient roads that go from Sahne, Harsin and Kangavar to Nihavand other eastern regions. In study this area, pottery Early Bronze Age (Godin IV-Yanik, Kura-Araxes), related Godin III, II historical period were obtained. The examination these artef...

The main objective of this study is to present new method on the basis of genetic algorithms for attenuation relationship determination of horizontal peak ground acceleration and spectral acceleration. The proposed method employs the optimization capabilities of genetic algorithm to determine the coefficients of attenuation relationships of peak ground and spectral accelerations. This method ha...