Detecting Climate Classification Changes in the National Botanical Garden of Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Faculty member of research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Desert Research Division

2 Research institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Awareness of the type of climate of each region is the basis of infrastructure planning in all issues related to that area. The National Botanical Garden of Iran is one of the most important tourist attractions of the country. One of the most important goals of this garden is to carry out botanical and horticultural research, training, raising public awareness of natural resources and the environment, and developing a natural attraction and conservation of native plant species outside the main habitat. Understanding the type of climate and its changes can be effective in maintaining and maintaining it as a national garden. In this study, an inventive model of climate change detection has been used to determine the type of garden climate and its changes over three decades. The results showed that at the annual scale, the type of garden climate changed from semi-arid to arid. And on a seasonal scale, winter has had the most changes so that its climate has changed from semi-humid to Mediterranean. On a monthly basis, most changes are in March and then in February. Given the importance and diversity of species in the garden, as a national capital, the continuation of these changes may threaten the extinction of many plant communities in the future. Climate change caused by global warming in the coming decades in Iran is inevitable and the National Garden will not be excluded from the effects of these changes,

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Iranian Journal of Forest and Range Protection Research
Volume 18, Issue 1 - Serial Number 35
September 2020
Pages 31-41

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  • Receive Date: 06 April 2020
  • Revise Date: 17 May 2020
  • Accept Date: 06 June 2020

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