This advanced textbook explores the intriguing flora and plant ecology of the Middle East,
framed by a changing desert landscape, global climate change, and the arc of human …

Seed development culminates in programmed cell death (PCD) and hardening of organs
enclosing the embryo (eg, pericarp, seed coat) providing essentially a physical shield for …

Abstract Context: Anastatica hierochuntica L.,(Brassicaceae) is distributed throughout
Arabian Peninsula, and elsewhere. It is locally called “Kaff-e-Maryam”. All parts of the plant …

Recent years have seen a growing body of evidence showing that plant competition and
facilitation usually operate simultaneously to drive population dynamics, community …

Mixed beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) forests are very important to the Hyrcanian region of
Iran because of their high degree of naturalness and as a source of wood production …

Aims To determine if the germination response of desert plant species to a period of aerial
storage in field conditions (ie mature seeds that remain attached to the parent plant) is …

Size class distribution is important in understanding population structure, demography and
stability of populations. In this study, the size structures of two semi-desert under-shrub …

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of decline on the structure of central Zagros
forests. For this purpose, an area of about 32 hectares located in Khoramabad forest was …

Most mosses have xerochastic dispersal (ie, they open their capsules when conditions are
dry), which is thought to favor long-distance dispersal. However, there are several species …

Plant species with aerial seed banks are commonly referred to as “serotinous,” an
adaptation in which seed release happens in response to an environmental trigger …