Plant can alter reproductive strategies for adaptation to different environments. However, alterations in flowering strategies and sexual allocation for the same species growing in different environments still remain unclear. We examined the sexual reproduction parameters of Caragana stenophylla across four climatic zones from semi-arid, arid, very arid, to intensively arid zones in the Inner M...

abstract stochastic model for synthetic data generation is not available for daily flows of intermittent streams. such a model is required in the planning and operation of structures on an intermittent stream for purposes where short time flow fluctuations are important. in this study a model is developed for such a case. the model consists of four steps: determination of the days on which flow...

plants and arthropods are the main elements of biodiversity in ecosystems. in order to evaluate structural biodiversity of plants and arthropods in natural systems of arid land, a study was carried out in shirvan, mashhad and gonabad, three regions of razavi and northern khorasan provinces, iran. in each region, 10 areas of natural systems selected and sampling was done in these selected areas....

Climate change may significantly affect the hydrological cycle and water resource management, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. In this paper, output from the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) regional climate model were used in conjunction with the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to analyse the effects of climate change on streamflow of the Xiying and Zamu ...

This study analyzed extreme precipitation events, using daily rainfall data for 1966–2015. A Mann–Kendall trend test was used to evaluate trends in precipitation, copula functions were applied compute the joint return periods of and univariate bivariate distributions determine risk. The results showed that decrease consecutive wet days (CWD) significant west northwest Iran, while dry (CDD) inde...