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 …

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 …

The study of the cultural materials associated with the Neanderthal physical remains from
the sites in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberian Altai and adjacent areas documents …

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 …

Green lizards of the genus Lacerta have served as excellent models for studying the impact
of Pleistocene climatic oscillations on genetic structures. The Caspian green lizard, Lacerta …

Our aim in this study was to further the understanding of the taxonomic relationships and the
evolutionary history of grey voles (subgenus Microtus, or arvalis species group) by …

Simple Summary In this paper, the Merodon avidus (Diptera, Syrphidae) species complex
was revised, whereupon we discovered and described four new species for science. An …

It has been generally acknowledged that glacial climates at the time of the Pleistocene
altered the patterns of species distributions, prompting latitudinal and altitudinal distribution …

Brown bears are mostly found in relatively low densities in the mountainous forests of Iran,
from north to northwest and west, as well. Phylogeographic and genetic relationships …

Aim Phylogeographic studies on a number of Western Palaearctic taxa imply that the
southern Caspian Sea region served as a refugium during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) …