Arasbaran protected area is located in NW Iran, is one of nine designated Biosphere Reserves in Iran. According to the literatures and the current study, 1067 plant taxa are identified in the area. Eighteen plant taxa of the area are endemic to Iran. Hemicryptophytes (42.5 %) are the most frequent life forms in the reserve followed by therophytes (25.8 %), cryptophytes (18.8 %), phanerophytes (...

Doñana National Park marshes, in South West Spain, extents over 27,000 ha of the Gualdalquivir River estuary, on the Atlantic Ocean coast. The site undergoes a yearly cycle of inundation in autumn and drying out during the spring season. While flooded, Doñana wetlands create a crucial passage, breeding and wintering site for more than half million waterfowl each year, including about 150 bird s...

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Members of the scaphidiine tribe Scaphisomatini collected recently in Tianmushan Biosphere Reserve (Zhejiang) and Wuyishan National Nature (part Reserve, Fujian), China, are studied. Two species, Scaphisoma krali Löbl, sp. nov. sekerkai nov., described from Wuyishan. Baeocera franzi (Löbl, 1973) mutator 2000 recorded for first time Zhejiang province, binhanum (Pic, 1922) Scaphoxium intermedium ...