Abstract The Zagros Mountains represent a strategic geographic region near the junction of Africa, Europe, and Asia, valleys within mountain range likely correspond to migration corridors used by archaic modern humans. Ghar-e Boof, key archeological site in southern Zagros, is located at an altitude 905 m.a.s.l. Dasht-e Rostam Fars Province, Iran. On basis lithic artifacts radiocarbon luminesce...

introduction the relationship between topography and precipitation in order to estimate the type and amount of precipitation in mountainous areas has always been of great importance for climatologists. in most of researches done based on regression model, the independent parameters such as elevation, slope, aspect, longitude and latitude have been used and the rule of distance to describe the s...

Physiological factors have effects on most forest parameters such as forest classification so that understanding knowledge about this subject is important to manage forests. The forests of Sorkhake-sanjabi village with area of 1645 ha located in Eslam Abad city, Kermanshah province, Iran were selected. 23 sample plots with rectangular shape (40m*50m) were selected and the species, origin of spe...

Hypogastrura persica sp. nov. is described from the Zagros Mountains (Kermanshah Province, Iran). The new species can be distinguished from two nearest congeners, namely H. exigua Gisin, 1958 (Alps) and H. magistri Babenko, 1994 (Siberia), by the body size, the number of sensilla on antennal segment IV, the number of setae on dens and ventral tube as well as chaetotaxy of abdominal terga IV and...

The Middle East contains a great diversity of Capoeta species, but their taxonomy remains poorly described. We used mitochondrial history to examine diversity of the algae-scraping cyprinid Capoeta in Iran, applying the species-delimiting approaches General Mixed Yule-Coalescent (GMYC) and Poisson Tree Process (PTP) as well as haplotype network analyses. Using the BEAST program, we also examine...

This study quantifies the significance of southerly water vapour fluxes, associated with the Zagros Mountains barrier jet, on precipitation occurring in the Eastern Fertile Crescent region and its change due to global warming. Precipitation events are simulated using a Regional Climate Model (MM5-Noah) driven by boundary conditions from a CCSM global climate model simulation with the SRES A2 em...

    Climate, as the average temperature or precipitation over a long period of time, is constantly fluctuating and changing. There is a complex relationship between climate change and human biological and cultural reactions (Weeks and Petrie, 2018). Increased dry conditions in the subtropics is one of the consequences of climate change that has been predicted by various models. While using th...

The Relationship between wildfire areas and physiographic features in the Zagros vegetation area, Kermanshah province

The Stinking Bean Trefoil (Anagyris foetida L.) Structure in Zagros (Case Study of Gilan-e Gharb Forests)