The species diversity, distribution, and conservation status of the terrestrial mammals of Iran

GH Yusefi, K Faizolahi, J Darvish, K Safi… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Cult, herding, and 'pilgrimage'in the Late Neolithic of north-west Arabia: Excavations at a mustatil east of AlUla

M Kennedy, L Strolin, J McMahon, D Franklin, A Flavel… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Since the 1970s, monumental stone structures now called mustatil have been documented
across Saudi Arabia. However, it was not until 2017 that the first intensive and systematic …

Middle and Late Pleistocene mammal fossils of Arabia and surrounding regions: Implications for biogeography and hominin dispersals

M Stewart, J Louys, GJ Price, NA Drake… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Plio-Pleistocene faunal turnovers and their implications for hominin dispersals have recently
received considerable attention. Exploration and palaeontological study of faunal …

A morphometric and genetic framework for the genus Gazella de Blainville, 1816 (Ruminantia: Bovidae) with special focus on Arabian and Levantine mountain …

EV Bärmann, T Wronski, H Lerp… - Zoological Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Gazella is one of the most species-rich genera within horned ruminants. Despite overall
similarity in body size and morphology, gazelles show variability in coloration and horn …

Wild gazelles of the southern Levant: genetic profiling defines new conservation priorities

L Hadas, D Hermon, A Boldo, G Arieli, R Gafny… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazelle), Dorcas gazelle (Gazella Dorcas) and acacia
gazelle (Gazella arabica acacia) were historically abundant in the southern Levant, and …

Insular gazelles of the circum-arabian seas: origin, distribution, dwarfism and taxonomy

G Chiozzi, G De Marchi, M Fasola, KM Ibrahim… - Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
The taxonomy of gazelles (Bovidae: Antilopinae) has been debated at length. Many of the
species and subspecies were historically discriminated mostly on subtle and individually …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the radiation of Gazella arabica on the Arabian Peninsula and testing the suitability of captive breeding stock for reintroduction, using mitochondrial …

M Al Mutairi, H Lerp, N Al Hanosh, W Macasero… - Saudi Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Today, the Arabian gazelle (G. arabica) occurs only in small, scattered populations on the
Arabian Peninsula and is classified as 'vulnerable', due to intensive hunting and competition …

Factors driving Arabian gazelles (Gazella arabica) in Israel to extinction: time series analysis of population size and juvenile survival in an unexploited population

B Shalmon, P Sun, T Wronski - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
Wild populations of Arabian gazelles (Gazella arabica) were once common on the Arabian
Peninsula, but today disappeared from large parts of their former range. In Israel only a …

The Farasan gazelle—A frugivorous browser in an arid environment?

T Wronski, E Schulz-Kornas - Mammalian Biology, 2015 - Springer
Food preferences of Arabian gazelle (Gazella arabica) on Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia,
were evaluated using focal animal sampling,'food tracking'and an eco-morphological …

Evidence of browsing pressure on the critically endangered Acacia gazelle (Gazella acaciae)

B Breslau, T Polak, B Shalmon, E Groner - Journal of Arid Environments, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arabian Gazelle (Gazella arabica) is vulnerable throughout its range. Israel's
population, known locally as the Acacia gazelle (G. acaciae), is critically endangered. The …