Background: The objective of this study was to determine the distribution some endemic species genus Astragalus L. (Astragalus anthylloides Lam., lycius Boiss. and xylobasis var. angustus (Freyn & Sint.) Freyn Bornm.) species, interaction between soil, climatic characteristics desertification risk which affect these in semi-arid environment Çankırı, northwest Turkey. During vegetation period 20...

in a faunistic survey of cecidomyiid gall midges (diptera: cecidomyiidae) in isfraeen, joghatai, and jovein regions (north khorasan province) in 2012, three species, clinodiplosis cilicrus kiefer 1889, asphondylia anatolica skuhrava1998 and lasioptera carophila low 1874 were collected and identified from galls on cirsium arvense (l.), astragalus sp. and dacus carota l. respectively. these three...