Iran is a country characterized by high biodiversity and complex biogeographic patterns. Its
diverse landscape and steep climatic gradients have resulted in significant faunal diversity …

Urmia Lake, with a surface area between 4000 to 6000 km2, is a hypersaline lake located in
northwest Iran. It is the saltiest large lake in the world that supports life. Urmia Lake National …

This study explores the response of the Irano-Turanian flora to Quaternary glacial–
interglacial cycles in SW Asia. We use new fossil pollen data to assess variation in …

Lake Urmia, the second largest hyper-saline lake on Earth, has recently experienced a
dramatic water-level reduction. This could have been caused by climate change or other …

A coarse-resolution, absolutely dated isotope record spanning the last 180 ka was
constructed from aragonite-rich fecal pellets in a sediment core from Lake Urmia, Iran. The …

Core sediments from the dry lake bed of Hamoun were subdivided into 3 main sedimentary
units using a multi-proxy approach (eg petrography, grain size analysis, total organic …

Abstract The Achaemenids and Sasanian 'Persian'Empires were significant political,
economic, and social forces in the Late Iron Age and Late Antiquity Eurasia, respectively …

For thousands of years, humans have inhabited locations that are highly vulnerable to the
impacts of climate change, earthquakes, and floods. In order to investigate the extent to …

Ancient Persia witnessed one of its most prosperous cultural and socio-economic periods
between 550 bc and ad 651, with the successive domination of the Achaemenid, Seleucid …

Abstract Two short (100 and 175 cm-long) sediment cores from the southwestern corner of
Lake Urmia provide a record of vegetation dynamics, lake-level changes and the role of …