Tissue succulence in plants: Carrying water for climate change

AV Pérez-López, SD Lim, JC Cushman - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Tissue succulence in plants involves the storage of water in one or more organs or tissues to
assist in maintaining water potentials on daily or seasonal time scales. This drought …

Statistically-robust clustering techniques for mapping spatial hotspots: A survey

Y Xie, S Shekhar, Y Li - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
Mapping of spatial hotspots, ie, regions with significantly higher rates of generating cases of
certain events (eg, disease or crime cases), is an important task in diverse societal domains …

Plant endemism centres and biodiversity hotspots in Greece

K Kougioumoutzis, IP Kokkoris, M Panitsa, A Kallimanis… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

Environmental variables drive plant species composition and distribution in the moist temperate forests of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan

IU Rahman, RE Hart, F Ijaz, A Afzal, Z Iqbal, ES Calixto… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
By assessing plant species composition and distribution in biodiversity hotspots influenced
by environmental gradients, we greatly advance our understanding of the local plant …

[HTML][HTML] Protected area network insufficiently represents climatic niches of endemic plants in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

S Ludovicy, J Noroozi, P Semenchuk, D Moser… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Protected Areas (PA) play a pivotal role in conservation biology. Climate change challenges
the concept of static PAs as species may not find suitable climatic conditions in the PAs …

Diversity and distribution patterns of endemic medicinal and aromatic plants of Iran: Implications for conservation and habitat management

MB Hassanpouraghdam, H Ghorbani… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Iran, with its unique climatic and topographic conditions, is home to about 8200 species of
vascular plants. Approximately 2300 of the 8200 species are popularly characterized as …

Diversity, diversification and distribution of Iranian vertebrates: the legacy of mountains uplifting, past climatic oscillations, sea level fluctuations and geographical …

M Yousefi, A Mahmoudi, S Vaissi, A Kafash - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Identifying historical drivers of biodiversity distribution patterns is a central issue in ecology
and biogeography. Iran is a biodiversity-rich country in southwestern Asia. It is known that …

The hotspots and conservation gaps of the mega genus Astragalus (Fabaceae) in the Old-World

AA Maassoumi, P Ashouri - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 - Springer
Astragalus (Fabaceae), as a mega genus, among 57 Angiosperm genera, with high
diversity, has vast distribution in the World. However, there is a lack of up-to-date information …

Hotspots of (sub) alpine plants in the Irano‐Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot are insufficiently protected

J Noroozi, M Minaei, S Khalvati, A Kaveh… - Diversity and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The mountainous regions in SW Asia harbour a high number of endemic species, many
of which are restricted to the high‐elevation zone. The (sub) alpine habitats of the region are …

Fire protection priorities in the oak forests of Iran with an emphasis on vertebrate habitat preservation

R Sayahnia, S Ommi, H Khoshnamvand… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
This study examines the impact of fire incidents on wildlife and habitats in the western oak
forests of Iran (Zagros region). These forests are globally recognized for their exceptional …