Biodiversity hotspots are centers of biological diversity and particularly threatened by anthropogenic activities. Their true magnitude of species diversity and endemism, however, is still largely unknown as species diversity is traditionally assessed using morphological descriptions only, thereby ignoring cryptic species. This directly limits evidence-based monitoring and management strategies...

the oriental arborvitae habitat with an area of 223­ha. is located on 20 km south of fazel­abad, golestan province. the lowest and highest of its height are 820 and 1680 m.a.s.l. the floristic-physiognomic investigation performed by walked-field procedure at 2nd seasonal sequence showed that flora of this region includes 173 plant species that belong to 147 genera and 65 families, of which 5 sp...

This study assessed the floristic composition, biological spectrum, and phytogeographical elements of Bin Dara western boundary Pakistan. The flora consisted 140 plant species belonging to 47 families. most dominant family was Poaceae (with 14 species), followed by Asteraceae (11 species). spectrum showed therophytes (71 species, 50.71%) as life form class, mega-phanerophytes (27 19.28%), nano-...

Responding to an enquiry concerning the geographic population structure (GPS) approach and the origin of Ashkenazic Jews – a reply to Flegontov et al. Abstract Recently, we investigated the geographical origins of Ashkenazic Jews (AJs) and their native language Yiddish by applying a biogeographical tool, the Geographic Population Structure (GPS), to a cohort of 367 exclusively Yiddish-speaking ...

Urtica dioica is an ethnobotanically and medicinally important Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) plant worldwide and in Turkey; 90 % of herbal CAM applications depend on it in Turkey. It has a wide range of habitats in nearly all continents. It is found in all three phytogeographical regions in Turkey (Euro-Siberian, Irano-Turanian, Mediterranean) with high adaptivity to heterogeneou...

Teucrium (Lamiaceae) is a large and polymorphic genus distributed mainly in Europe, North Africa and in the temperate parts of Asia. In this study, the anatomical features of the leaf and stem of Teucrium polium are investigated. Teucrium has 19 taxa in Iran, which mainly grow in the Irano-Turanian region between 700 and 2000 m above sea level. T. polium belonging to sect. Polium, is a perennia...