IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward
Iran, situated in Southwest Asia, showcases a diverse landscape, including three phytogeographical regions and two global biodiversity hotspots. This diversity is attributed to its intricate geology, mountainous terrain, wide altitudinal range, and heterogeneous climate, fostering a rich flora chara...
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| author | Soghra Ramzi Jalil Noroozi Hamid Gholizadeh Behnam Hamzeh’ee Younes Asri Amir Talebi Halime Moradi Parastoo Mahdavi Seyedeh Saeedeh Tamjidi Eramsadati Somayeh Zarezadeh Asghar Kamrani Omid Esmailzadeh Atefeh Ghorbanalizadeh Maral Bashirzadeh Adel Jalili Jaber Sharifi Aiuob Moradi Mahmoud Bidarlord Soudeh Siadati Sajad Lotfi Farideh Attar Maedeh Mohammadpour Darzi Zeynab Kazemi Gorji Sharyan Ghasemi Mehdi Dehghani Soroor Rahmanian Ali Esmailpoor Anvar Sanaei Sahar Ghafari Parvaneh Ashouri Arshad Ali Abdolrahman Dehghani Somayeh Hosseini Hajar Hamedani Samereh Tirgan Mohaddeseh Maghsoudi Aliakbar Daneshi Javad Eshaghi Rad Mohammadreza Eslami Mahdis Ramezani Zahra Mehrabi Zahra Naqipour Nadia Naseri Hossein Bahari Maryam Ashouri Narges Vasefi Seyed Abbas Seyedakhlaghi Hamid Ejtehadi Mohammad Farzam Somayeh Mokhtari Morteza Djamali Elias Ramezani Habib Zare Nahid Masudian Raheleh Alinejad Mojdeh Kasiri Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseini Masoumeh Raeisi Hooman Ravanbakhsh Franz Essl Hamid Jalilvand Mehdi Abedi Khadijeh Bahalkeh Alireza Naqinezhad |
| author_facet | Soghra Ramzi Jalil Noroozi Hamid Gholizadeh Behnam Hamzeh’ee Younes Asri Amir Talebi Halime Moradi Parastoo Mahdavi Seyedeh Saeedeh Tamjidi Eramsadati Somayeh Zarezadeh Asghar Kamrani Omid Esmailzadeh Atefeh Ghorbanalizadeh Maral Bashirzadeh Adel Jalili Jaber Sharifi Aiuob Moradi Mahmoud Bidarlord Soudeh Siadati Sajad Lotfi Farideh Attar Maedeh Mohammadpour Darzi Zeynab Kazemi Gorji Sharyan Ghasemi Mehdi Dehghani Soroor Rahmanian Ali Esmailpoor Anvar Sanaei Sahar Ghafari Parvaneh Ashouri Arshad Ali Abdolrahman Dehghani Somayeh Hosseini Hajar Hamedani Samereh Tirgan Mohaddeseh Maghsoudi Aliakbar Daneshi Javad Eshaghi Rad Mohammadreza Eslami Mahdis Ramezani Zahra Mehrabi Zahra Naqipour Nadia Naseri Hossein Bahari Maryam Ashouri Narges Vasefi Seyed Abbas Seyedakhlaghi Hamid Ejtehadi Mohammad Farzam Somayeh Mokhtari Morteza Djamali Elias Ramezani Habib Zare Nahid Masudian Raheleh Alinejad Mojdeh Kasiri Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseini Masoumeh Raeisi Hooman Ravanbakhsh Franz Essl Hamid Jalilvand Mehdi Abedi Khadijeh Bahalkeh Alireza Naqinezhad |
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| description | Iran, situated in Southwest Asia, showcases a diverse landscape, including three phytogeographical regions and two global biodiversity hotspots. This diversity is attributed to its intricate geology, mountainous terrain, wide altitudinal range, and heterogeneous climate, fostering a rich flora characterized by a significant proportion of endemism. We present an updated version of the Vegetation Database of Iran (IranVeg) (GIVD ID AS-IR-001), comprising 13,411 plots spanning six major habitat types. These encompass deciduous forests (18.0%), woodlands and shrublands (5.6%), steppes and other grasslands (52.0%), saline depressions (9.3%), wetlands (12.2%), and anthropogenic habitats (2.9%), derived from 100 published and unpublished resources, comprising 3,919 plant species, belonging to 961 genera and 147 families. The vegetation data of Iran have been assigned to 31 valid and invalid phytosociological classes. The oldest plots were recorded in 1936 in the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran, while more than 60% of all plots were collected after 2010. Plot sizes vary from less than 1 m2 to 10,000 m2 with the highest species richness of 101 species recorded in a 25 m2 montane grassland plot. IranVeg stands as the first national vegetation database in Iran, promising valuable insights into biodiversity patterns and facilitating the assessment of future environmental and anthropogenic changes. It remains open to further development through a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. This comprehensive database holds significant potential for advancing vegetation classification and survey efforts in Iran and beyond. Taxonomic reference: World Flora Online (WFO 2024). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-81eedb81619f4d9cb15cb314be5d8c812025-08-20T02:32:20ZengPensoft PublishersVegetation Classification and Survey (VCS)2683-06712024-12-01523725610.3897/VCS.114081114081IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forwardSoghra Ramzi0Jalil Noroozi1Hamid Gholizadeh2Behnam Hamzeh’ee3Younes Asri4Amir Talebi5Halime Moradi6Parastoo Mahdavi7Seyedeh Saeedeh Tamjidi Eramsadati8Somayeh Zarezadeh9Asghar Kamrani10Omid Esmailzadeh11Atefeh Ghorbanalizadeh12Maral Bashirzadeh13Adel Jalili14Jaber Sharifi15Aiuob Moradi16Mahmoud Bidarlord17Soudeh Siadati18Sajad Lotfi19Farideh Attar20Maedeh Mohammadpour Darzi21Zeynab Kazemi Gorji22Sharyan Ghasemi23Mehdi Dehghani24Soroor Rahmanian25Ali Esmailpoor26Anvar Sanaei27Sahar Ghafari28Parvaneh Ashouri29Arshad Ali30Abdolrahman Dehghani31Somayeh Hosseini32Hajar Hamedani33Samereh Tirgan34Mohaddeseh Maghsoudi35Aliakbar Daneshi36Javad Eshaghi Rad37Mohammadreza Eslami38Mahdis Ramezani39Zahra Mehrabi40Zahra Naqipour41Nadia Naseri42Hossein Bahari43Maryam Ashouri44Narges Vasefi45Seyed Abbas Seyedakhlaghi46Hamid Ejtehadi47Mohammad Farzam48Somayeh Mokhtari49Morteza Djamali50Elias Ramezani51Habib Zare52Nahid Masudian53Raheleh Alinejad54Mojdeh Kasiri55Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseini56Masoumeh Raeisi57Hooman Ravanbakhsh58Franz Essl59Hamid Jalilvand60Mehdi Abedi61Khadijeh Bahalkeh62Alireza Naqinezhad63University of MazandaranUniversity of ViennaUniversity of SienaResearch Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)Plant Bank, Iranian Biological Resource Center (IBRC), Research Complex of ACECR (Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture & Research)University of HamburgThünen InstitutUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of ShahedTarbiat Modares UniversityUnaffiliatedUniversity of MazandaranResearch Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)Forests and Rangelands Research Division, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Ardabil Province, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)Guilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)Guilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)University of GuilanUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of TehranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of GuilanUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of ZabolGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)University of MazandaranLeipzig UniversityUniversity of Mohaghegh ArdabiliResearch Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)Hebei UniversityUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of TehranUniversity of GuilanUniversity of MazandaranUrmia UniversityBiology Education Department, General Education Department of Sistan and Baluchistan ProvinceUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of GuilanUniversity of GuilanUniversity of GuilanFerdowsi University of MashhadFerdowsi University of MashhadUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of Avignon, CNRS, IRD, IMBE (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie)Urmia UniversityResearch Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Nowshahr Botanical Garden, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)Islamic Azad UniversityUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranUniversity of MazandaranResearch Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)University of ViennaSari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources UniversityTarbiat Modares UniversityTarbiat Modares UniversityUniversity of DerbyIran, situated in Southwest Asia, showcases a diverse landscape, including three phytogeographical regions and two global biodiversity hotspots. This diversity is attributed to its intricate geology, mountainous terrain, wide altitudinal range, and heterogeneous climate, fostering a rich flora characterized by a significant proportion of endemism. We present an updated version of the Vegetation Database of Iran (IranVeg) (GIVD ID AS-IR-001), comprising 13,411 plots spanning six major habitat types. These encompass deciduous forests (18.0%), woodlands and shrublands (5.6%), steppes and other grasslands (52.0%), saline depressions (9.3%), wetlands (12.2%), and anthropogenic habitats (2.9%), derived from 100 published and unpublished resources, comprising 3,919 plant species, belonging to 961 genera and 147 families. The vegetation data of Iran have been assigned to 31 valid and invalid phytosociological classes. The oldest plots were recorded in 1936 in the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran, while more than 60% of all plots were collected after 2010. Plot sizes vary from less than 1 m2 to 10,000 m2 with the highest species richness of 101 species recorded in a 25 m2 montane grassland plot. IranVeg stands as the first national vegetation database in Iran, promising valuable insights into biodiversity patterns and facilitating the assessment of future environmental and anthropogenic changes. It remains open to further development through a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. This comprehensive database holds significant potential for advancing vegetation classification and survey efforts in Iran and beyond. Taxonomic reference: World Flora Online (WFO 2024).https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/114081/download/pdf/ |
| spellingShingle | Soghra Ramzi Jalil Noroozi Hamid Gholizadeh Behnam Hamzeh’ee Younes Asri Amir Talebi Halime Moradi Parastoo Mahdavi Seyedeh Saeedeh Tamjidi Eramsadati Somayeh Zarezadeh Asghar Kamrani Omid Esmailzadeh Atefeh Ghorbanalizadeh Maral Bashirzadeh Adel Jalili Jaber Sharifi Aiuob Moradi Mahmoud Bidarlord Soudeh Siadati Sajad Lotfi Farideh Attar Maedeh Mohammadpour Darzi Zeynab Kazemi Gorji Sharyan Ghasemi Mehdi Dehghani Soroor Rahmanian Ali Esmailpoor Anvar Sanaei Sahar Ghafari Parvaneh Ashouri Arshad Ali Abdolrahman Dehghani Somayeh Hosseini Hajar Hamedani Samereh Tirgan Mohaddeseh Maghsoudi Aliakbar Daneshi Javad Eshaghi Rad Mohammadreza Eslami Mahdis Ramezani Zahra Mehrabi Zahra Naqipour Nadia Naseri Hossein Bahari Maryam Ashouri Narges Vasefi Seyed Abbas Seyedakhlaghi Hamid Ejtehadi Mohammad Farzam Somayeh Mokhtari Morteza Djamali Elias Ramezani Habib Zare Nahid Masudian Raheleh Alinejad Mojdeh Kasiri Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseini Masoumeh Raeisi Hooman Ravanbakhsh Franz Essl Hamid Jalilvand Mehdi Abedi Khadijeh Bahalkeh Alireza Naqinezhad IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) |
| title | IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward |
| title_full | IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward |
| title_fullStr | IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward |
| title_full_unstemmed | IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward |
| title_short | IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward |
| title_sort | iranveg the vegetation database of iran current status and the way forward |
| url | https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/114081/download/pdf/ |
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