Two new species of Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1859, crane flies (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the Korean peninsula are described, illustrated and compared with already known and related species. An identification key and check-list of all Korean Dicranoptycha is presented.

The low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) caused by H9N2 virus has generated economic losses in the Korean poultry industry since 1999, but field isolates could not be used for killed oil emulsion vaccine directly because of low productivity in embryonated chicken eggs (ECE). Therefore, we established a vaccine strain, KBNP-0028, by passage through ECE with allantoic fluid showing the highest v...

in this study the land surface in western half of hyper-arid lut desert, in south east of iran, which is covered by yardangs, a worldwide typical landform for aeolian erosion, were classified by self organizing maps (som) method. in the first step by using digital elevation model with 10 m resolution and matlab software, 22 morphometric parameters were calculated based on derivative of the surf...

Recognizing the herbaceous plant species diversity could use as an importantindicator applied for the rangeland and forests management. Considering the presence ofvegetation and animal husbandry in Zagros region, Iran, being aware of the diversity andrichness of plant species is necessary to management or the destructed vegetationrestoration. In order to study the effect of aspect and elevation...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s41073-017-0028-9.].