Abstract. Vegetation of each region is one of the most important phenomena of nature and is the best guide to judge about the ecological sciences of that region because the plants are resistant organisms that have endured the long term conditions of all kinds of environmental conditions for a long period of time and have adapted with environmental stresses. Therefore floristical investigation o...

Iran has a long history in the use of medicinal plants and traditional medicine. Local people in the villages, especially the elderly, have useful information about health benefits and how to use these plants. Therefore, it seems that collecting and recording this information leads to the revival of this traditional knowledge. The current research is an ethnobotanical study on the medicinal pla...

Eighteen taxa of the genus Jurinea Cass. growing naturally in Turkey were classified by numerical taxonomic analysis. Morphological and palynological characters of each individual were measured and quantified on the basis of 51 traits. Ten plants were chosen randomly for the measurements of metric characters related to the external morphology of the taxa and the average values used for statisti...

In 2021, global environmental challenges were at the forefront of our minds. Having finished first year UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, we are witnessing predicted effects anthropogenic climate change around world. Applied ecological research is more important than ever to develop appropriate management solutions wide range challenges. this editorial, take a look key issues and topics inter...

This paper proposes that complex projectile weaponry was a key strategic innovation driving Late Pleistocene human dispersal into western Eurasia after 50 Ka. It argues that complex projectile weapons of the kind used by ethnographic hunter-gatherers, such as the bow and arrow, and spearthrower and dart, enabled Homo sapiens to overcome obstacles that constrained previous human dispersal from A...

Development of overall strategies for observations of the Earth system has received considerable attention in recent years. Most attention has been paid to space-based observations but of comparable importance is the wide variety of in situ observations made at the surface of the Earth and in its atmosphere and oceans. The in situ data are essential for the success of global observations and th...