The present study was conducted to assess socio-economic impacts of deforestation of Hyrcanian forests in two basins of Do-Hezar and Se-Hezar, northern Iran. To this end, changes in the forest area were detected over the period between 1990 and 2006 based on land use land cover maps derived from Landsat and IRS satellite images. The land use changes were investigated by enhancement of the image...

Kooch Y, SM Hosseini, Hojjati SM, Fallah A. 2013. Variability of soil physical indicators imposed by beech and hornbeam individual trees in a local scale. Biodiversitas 14: 25-30. The objective of our study was to determine if soil physical indicators could be related to the influence of the individual trees in stands of mixed species growing on steep slopes in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran. Re...

the Quaternary climatic oscillations and persist today in isolated refugial areas is crucial for maintaining the global diversity of plants, especially considering the current climate trend of increasing temperatures and water stress ( Petit et al., 2005 ; Kozlowski et al., 2012 ). The Arcto-Tertiary relict fl ora, that covered large parts of the northern hemisphere during the Eocene but since ...

Structural diversity is recognized as a complementary aspect of biological and plays fundamental role in forest management, conservation, restoration. Hence, the assessment structural has become major effort primary international processes, dealing with biodiversity sustainable management. Because prohibitive costs associated ground measurements structure, despite their high accuracy, space-bor...

Compacted soil has lower water infiltration and hydraulic conductivity, which contributes to increased runoff and erosion on slopes. The aim of the present study was to assess runoff and sediment on three skidding trail longitudinal gradients (15%, 25%, and 35%) and different levels of machine traffic (low, medium, and high), over a two-year period following the impact in the Hyrcanian forest, ...