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Mohsen Hosseini (Professor)

  • Ecological assessment of Iranian forest ecosystems
  • Effect of nanoparticles, nanotubes, magnetic fields, bacteria, fungi, cyanobacteria and beams on the improvement of seed and seedlings performance of important industrial and medicinal forest species

Masoud Tabari Kouchaksaraei (Professor)

  • 1) Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2) Silviculture, 3) Amendments and environmental stresses on seed and forest seedling

Seyed Jalil Alavi (Associate Professor)

  • The combined effects of climate and land-use change on tree species distributions
  • Predicting habitat suitability with machine learning models
  • The ecological niche analysis of tree species
  • Quantifying forest structure
  • Assessing forest site productivity using statistical models
  • Spatial modeling and Geostatistics

Omid Esmailzadeh (Associate Professor)

  • Application of species-environment response models in determining the habitability of forest species
  • Environmental gradient of Hyrcanian forest communities using the combination of representative species
  • Extending Ellenberg Indicator Values for Vascular plnat in Hyrcanian Forests
  • Importance of Soil Seed Bank in Regeneration of Hyrcanian Forests (Seed Bank Persistence, Canopy Gaps and Fire)
  • Community classification and ecology of relic species in Hyrcanian forest

Akbar Najafi (Associate Professor)

  • Operational Research in Forestry
  • Monitoring & Assessing Forest Harvesting Impacts
  • Spatial and Temporal Scheduling Forest Road Maintenance
  • Decision Support System and Geographic Information System in Natural Resources

Hormoz Sohrabi (Associate Professor)

  • Using UAV images in forest inventory
  • Satellite based assessment and monitoring of forest stands
  • Sampling and Measurement of forests and trees

Hamed YousefZadeh (Associate Professor)

  • Genetics of rare and endangered species
  • Climate change, biotic stress and vulnerability detection of rare and endangered species