we investigated the relations among infection intensity of european mistletoe (viscum album l.) with host tree features in nour forest park, located in caspian forests in north of iran. the number of 30 circular plots with an area of 0.1 ha were sampled in all places have an aggregation of infested trees. parameters including dbh, height, distance to stand edge, distance to conspecific tree, ba...

Abeli, T., Dalrymple, S.E., Mondoni, A., Orsenigo, S., and Rossi, G. 2014. Integrating a biogeographical approach into assisted colonization activities is urgently needed. Plant Biosyst. 148(6):13551357. Adamidis, G.C., Dimitrakopoulos, P.G., Manolis, A., and Papageorgiou, A.C. 2014. Genetic diversity and population structure of the serpentine endemic Ni hyperaccumulator Alyssum lesbiacum. Plan...

Information on the productivity, costs and applications of the logging system is a key component in the evaluation of management plans for the rehabilitation and utilization of Caspian forests. Skidding and road construction costs are expensive forest operations. Determining the optimum forest road network density is one of the most important factors in sustainable forest management. Logging me...

The International Journal of Preventive Medicine has always shown interest in studies on obesity. An interesting article has been recently published in the journal by Jari et al. The paper is on the association between overweight/ obesity and anxiety/depression among Iranian adolescents and uses data of the CASPIAN‐III study. Due to the global epidemic of obesity and the need for evidence‐based...

The most common way of satellite images use for dynamics investigation relies on separate interpretation or computer classification of multitemporal images with subsequent matrix comparison of classification results for changes discovering. These procedures are rather complicated and time-consuming. As a method convenient for everyday efficient image analysis we suggest method of changes determ...

The Iranian population includes several ethnic groups scattered throughout Iran, which differ with regard to their rates for cancer. An infamous 'Asian esophageal cancer belt'stretches to the east from the Caspian littoral in Iran via Turkmenistan to the Northern provinces of China. Apart from the eastern part of the Caspian littoral area of Iran which has the highest incidence of esophageal ca...