a faunestic study on stigmaeidae and cryptognathidae families in lorestan province was carried out during 2012-2013. in this study 18 species were collected and identified, of which favognathus amygdalus and f. cordylus (cryptognathidae) were new records for iranian fauna, also all of the collected species in this study were new records for fauna of lorestan province. stigmaeidae with 14 specie...

The use of microsatellite (SSR) markers has successfully found its application in genetic characterization and examination the origin a large number fruit species. Mediterranean germplasm is characterized by great variety almond genotypes. study covered two geographically distant regions Montenegro (Bar) Croatia (Sibenik) sample 60 Genetic analysis almonds involved ten primers for examined geno...

Potential distributions of endemic relic shrubs in western Ordos were poorly mapped, which hindered our implementation of proper conservation. Here we investigated the applicability of ecological niche modeling for endangered relic shrubs to detect areas of priority for biodiversity conservation and analyze differences in ecological niche spaces used by relic shrubs. We applied ordination and n...