Database Report

Desert and Mountain steppe in Southern slope of Mt Alborz

Parastoo Mahdavi & Hossein Akhani

GIVD Database ID: AS-IR-005	Last update: 2015-09-23
Desert and Mountain steppe in Southern slope of Mt Alborz	Web address:
Database manager(s): Parastoo Mahdavi (pmahdav@uni-goettingen.de); Hossein Akhani (akhani@khayam.ut.ac.ir)
Owner: Parastoo Mahdavi, Hossein Akhani
Scope: The database includes releves along altitudinal gradient from desert area in south of Tehran up to 3000 m a.s.l. in Mt Tuchal, in the southern slopes of Mt. Alborz
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Availability: according to a specific agreement	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG, MS Access, Excel, CSV file, plain text file
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 1 to 25
Non-overlapping plots: 765	Estimate of existing plots: 0	Completeness: [NA]	Status: finished
Total no. of plot observations: 765	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 0	Valid taxa: 0
Countries (%): IR: 100
Formations: Non Forest: 100% = Terrestrial: 100% (Non arctic-alpin: 100% [Natural: 100%])
Guilds: all vascular plants: 90%
Plot size categories (%): 1-10 m2: 30%; 10-100 m2: 70%; unknowmn: 0%;
Environmental data (%):
Performance measure(s): cover: 100%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 100%
Sampling periods: 2000-2009: 100%
Information as of 2026-05-26; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/AS-IR-005

Parastoo Mahdavi* (pmahdav@uni-goettingen.de)
IRAN
Hossein Akhani (akhani@khayam.ut.ac.ir)
department of plant science, School of Biology, University of Tehran, IRAN
* corresponding author