Information on different rangeland plants’ nutritive values during variousphonological stages is of importance for the rangelands management. This information helpsrangeland managers to choose proper grazing times to achieve higher animal performancewith no detrimental effects on the rangeland vegetations. Effects of various plant parts’phenological stages and vegetation types on reserve carboh...

Fire is one of the incorporate vegetation management practices for grasslands and semi-arid rangelands. It may affect symbiotic relationship between range plants and mycorrhiza. Accordingly, this research was aimed to investigate the effects of a spring prescribed fire on the symbiotic relationships between mycorrhiza and 6 plant species. The study was conducted in a semi-arid steppe rangeland ...

21 Aim Changes in community composition resulting from environmental changes modify biotic 22 interactions and affect the distribution and density of local populations. Such changes are currently 23 occurring in nettle-feeding butterflies in Sweden where Araschnia levana has recently expanded 24 its range northward and is now likely to interact with the resident species (Aglais urticae and Agla...

three species of tuberculina viz. t. persicina, t. sbrozzii and t. maxima are newly reported from iran. information about distribution and host range of species is provided. each species is re-described and illustrated by photomicrographs. a key for reported taxa is also provided.