Under the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona toil those who would rob humankind o f its humanity. These gray, soulless monsters methodically tear away at our meaning, our subjectivity, our essence as transcendent beings. With each advance, they steal our freedom and dignity. Who are these denizens of darkness, these usurpers of all that is good and holy? None other than humanity’s arch-f...

Environmental (topography, climate) features have an important influence on plant diversity and richness of Iran. Topography is from –28m which is close to Caspian Sea to 5678m which is located on the Alborz Mountain. Two mountains (Alborz and Zagrosss) prevent moist air moving to the centre of Iran. On the basis of environmental factors, four ecological zones with specific plant richness from ...

The increasing rate of irreversible damages to natural habitats has reinforced the need for gathering biodiversity fundamental data to conservation. Priority setting is the most important step in protection programs. Solanaceae as the the one of important economic families of eudicots distributed throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific. Up to n...

in order to have spatial and temporal analysis of iran extreme cold days' trend, the average of daily temperature data from 663 synoptic and climatologic stations of iran during the period of 1961/21/03 to 2004/19/03 were used. then, temperature data on 15*15 kilometer pixels were interpolated using kriging method for iran. the extreme cold days were identified by normalized temperature di...

the presence of glacial deposits is among the most important evidences of quaternary climatic changes. the aalamkooh and thakht-e-solieman glaciers are the samples of those glaciers in the alborz mountains. all iranian and foreign researchers who have worked on the alamkooh glaciers believe the glaciers of northern alborz are parts of active ones in iran. the objective of this research is inves...

the presence of glacial deposits is among the most important evidences of quaternary climatic changes. the aalamkooh and thakht-e-solieman glaciers are the samples of those glaciers in the alborz mountains. all iranian and foreign researchers who have worked on the alamkooh glaciers believe the glaciers of northern alborz are parts of active ones in iran. the objective of this research is inves...