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Open AccessPredicting current and future high-risk areas for vectors and reservoirs of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran
Climate change will affect the distribution of species in the future. To determine the vulnerable areas relating to CL in Iran, we applied two models, MaxEnt and RF, for the projection of the future distributi...
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Open AccessIdentifying high snakebite risk area under climate change for community education and antivenom distribution
Snakebite is one of the largest risks from wildlife, however little is known about venomous snake distribution, spatial variation in snakebite risk, potential changes in snakebite risk pattern due to climate c...
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Diversity, diversification and distribution of Iranian vertebrates: the legacy of mountains uplifting, past climatic oscillations, sea level fluctuations and geographical barriers
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 past events like ...
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Modeling habitat suitability of bats to identify high priority areas for field monitoring and conservation
Bats provide important ecosystem services but face severe threats due to land and climate changes. Although bats are an important component of mammal diversity in Iran, the ecology of many species remains virt...
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Open AccessReptile species richness associated to ecological and historical variables in Iran
Spatial gradients of species richness can be shaped by the interplay between historical and ecological factors. They might interact in particularly complex ways in heterogeneous mountainous landscapes with str...
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Open AccessApplying species distribution models in public health research by predicting snakebite risk using venomous snakes’ habitat suitability as an indicating factor
Snakebite envenoming is an important public health problem in Iran, despite its risk not being quantified. This study aims to use venomous snakes’ habitat suitability as an indicator of snakebite risk, to iden...
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Open AccessSpecies distribution models advance our knowledge of the Neanderthals’ paleoecology on the Iranian Plateau
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were distributed across a vast region from Europe to western and Central Asia. The Neanderthals’ paleoecology and distribution has been extensively studied in Europe where the...
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Climate Change is a Major Problem for Biodiversity Conservation: A Systematic Review of Recent Studies in Iran
Climate change has been identified as one of the most important and immediate threats to biodiversity. In this study, we reviewed published papers about the impacts of climate change on Iran’s biodiversity sin...
