to evaluate the capability of irs-p6 liss-iii data to be employed for monitoring the pollarding forest areas in northern zagros, some parts of pollarded forests located around baneh city were selected as a case study area. the pollarding area was determined as the ground truth in a 3-year alternation period using a global positioning system (gps). radiometric and geometric corrections were appl...

fauna of the the aphid parasitoids at southern parts of the zagros submountains, and their host associations have been investigated. a total of 24 parasitoid species were identified in association with 30 aphids on 36 host plant species, representing more than 80 tritrophic associations (parasitoid-aphid-plant). aphidius avenae haliday is newly reported from iran. generally, the area of souther...

species diversity is an index for sustainability of rangeland ecosystems. we studied the effect of environmental factors (soil properties and aspects) on plant species diversity in zagros mountainous rangelands (vegetation type: festuca ovina-astragalus parrowianus) in the west of hamadan in march–july 2009. for this purpose, four aspects were defined in the study area. vegetation types were st...

Late Bronze Age multiple human burials from Deh Dumen, Iran, were uncovered in the Zagros Mountains. Using cross-sectional geometry and histology, a sample (n = 23) of fragmented femora these was examined to test for possible adaptation transhumant pastoralism. Midshaft femur remodelling modelling characteristics across males, females age-at-death groups partly indicated sex-specific pastoralis...

Four obligate cave fish species have been recorded from Zagros in Iran: Garra typhlops (Bruun and Kaiser, 1944), G. lorestanensis (Mousavi-Sabet Eagderi, 2016), tashanensis (Mousavi-Sabet, Vatandoust, Fatemi 2016) Eidinemacheilus smithi (Greenwood, 1976). So far, the only known locality of latter has Loven cave. Here, we extend range blind loach (E. smithi) by reporting a new locality, Tuveh sp...