Freely available satellite data at Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform enables vegetation phenology analysis across different scales very efficiently. We evaluated seasonal and annual of the old-growth Hyrcanian forests (HF) northern Iran covering an area ca. 1.9 million ha, also focused on 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. extracted bi-weekly MODIS-NDVI between 2017 2020 in GEE, which was u...

When forest fires occur, highly complex effects on soil properties and hydrological processes are activated. However, in countries such as Iran, these consequences not widely studied there is a lack of studies. Therefore, the main aim this study was to investigate wildfire quality characteristics representative area located Hyrcanian forests, specifically, Zarrinabad watershed Sari. For purpose...

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 ...