The functional properties of a plant can link the plant physiology with community and ecosystem processes. Thus it provides an appropriate tool for investigation of environmental changes and biodiversity. For this purpose, Zeiar rangeland of Damavand Mountain were selected as the 6000ha study area​​. A stratified-random sampling method was used for the sampling of vegetation and soil. Topograph...

To investigate the effect of manganese (Mn) and salinity on some growth traits and chemical composition of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) seedlings, a factorial experiment was carried out with two factors of salinity (0, 75, 150, 225 and 300 mM NaCl) and Mn (0, 12, 24 and 36 µM Mn from MnSO4 source) as completely randomized design with four replicates, in greenhouse in perlite medium. Results sho...

this study investigated the effects of planning on second-language written production with regard to task type. the participants were 75 iranian learners of english as a foreign language attending a private foreign language institution. they were asked to complete two different types of writing tasks (expository writing task and argumentative writing task) in different planned conditions (indiv...

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

the present study set out (a) to examine the categories of pedagogical knowledge related to the act of teaching of novice and experienced teachers as gleaned from their verbal report of what they were thinking about while teaching and (b) to compare the categories of pedagogical knowledge of novice and experienced teachers. the aim of comparing these two groups of teachers was to see whether di...

The aim of this research was to investigate the root colonization percentage of grain sorghum cultivars by two species of mycorrhizal fungi and its effect on some of morphological and agronomic traits. Experiment was laid out as factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replications. Experimental treatments included three levels of fungi (F1: control without inoculation, F2...