Aims Eurasian forest‐steppes are among the most complex non‐tropical terrestrial
ecosystems. Despite their considerable scientific, ecological and economic importance …

Located at the crossroad of the Palearctic, Saharo-Arabian, and Oriental zoogeographic
realms, and with its great environmental diversity, Iran harbors a high complexity and …

Conservation biology aims at identifying areas of rich biodiversity. Currently recognized
global biodiversity hotspots are spatially too coarse for conservation management and …

Endemism is one of the most important concepts in biogeography and is of high relevance
for conservation biology. Nevertheless, our understanding of patterns of endemism is still …

A complete list of bat records available from Iran was compiled from literature and from new
records, based on field studies and examination of museum specimens. The record review …

This study introduces the climate of Iran determined according to Köppen-Geiger, Feddema,
and UNPEP climate classifications, computed with a high-resolution ground-based gridded …

This study investigates the role of climate in determining phytogeographic regions, focusing
particularly on the Irano-Turanian floristic region in SW and Central Asia. A set of simple …

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

Ever since the 19th century, the immense arid lands of the O rient, now called the I rano‐T
uranian (IT) floristic region, attracted the interest of E uropean naturalists with their …

Southwest Asia is climatically and topographically a highly diverse region in the xeric belt of
the Old World. Its diversity of arid habitats and climatic conditions acted as an important area …