Remote sensing is recognized as a powerful and efficient tool that provides a
comprehensive view of large areas that are difficult to access, and also reduces costs and …

Documenting habitats of rangeland plant species is required to properly manage
rangelands and to understand ecosystem processes. A reliable rangeland species potential …

Forests are already and will continue to experience a rapid and extreme change in climatic
conditions in the future. The distributions of forests are expected to shift northward and to …

Plants have certain characteristics which allow them to respond to various environmental
conditions, like changes in climate, water scarcity in the soil, lack of minerals; among others …

Rangelands with more than 8000 plant species occupy nearly 54.6% of the land area of Iran
and thus are accounted for a rich plant genetic storage. Mazandaran province has 378,000 …

Invasive plants can alter the function and structure of ecosystems resulting in social,
economic, and ecological damage. Effective methods to reduce the dominance of invasive …

Recently, more studies have focused on predicting plant response to livestock grazing by
using plant functional traits as indicators to study species adaptation under grazing …

Invasions by non-native species are an increasing problem, especially at valuable
rangelands. In the present research, the suitable habitat of the invasive species of …

By modeling different indices that describe functional diversity in communities as well as the
mean, maximum and minimum of trait values–As a function of abiotic gradients–the impact …

In applied studies, the investigation of the relationship between a plant species and
environmental variables is essential to manage ecological problems and rangeland …