Mehran Jahanshahi's research while affiliated with Department of Environment and other places

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The habitat and population characteristics of the Maral, Cervus elaphus maral Gray, 1850, were studied in Golestan National Park, Iran, from 1975 to 2003 (but more intensively from 1976–1978) in the three vegetation types present; Caspian deciduous forest, transition zone, and steppe. Forest meadows and the transition zone were the preferred habita...
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The range of the Leopard is still known to include large areas of Iran. Data have been gathered mainly at nine sites since 1976. The results show that there are about 550–850 specimens in Iran, some 55% of which live in protected areas. Kurzfassung. Die Verbreitung des Leoparden schliesst weite Teile des Iran ein. Aktuelle Daten seit 1976 wurden vo...

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... Historical ungulate abundance data (censuses) came from De-Vos (1975), and modern data (censuses) were from the years 2010-2018. For some species (e.g., maral), we relied on additional literature (Kiabi, 1978, Kiabi et al., 2004. Population trajectories (λ) were calculated as the annualized finite rate of population change: ...
... The Persian or Iranian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor, Pocock 1927) is one of the subspecies in danger of disappearance (Khorozyan, Malkhasyan and Asmaryan, 2005;Khalafvon Jaffa, May 2008i, September 2008x, August 2023. Armenia and Azerbaijan (160-275;Kiabi et al. 2002). The number in Afghanistan is unknown, but should be at least several hundred (Habibi, 2004); however, today's rampant leopard fur trade on the Kabul market and over harvest during and after the long-term civil unrest pose the greatest threat to survival of this predator in the country (Mishra and Fitzherbert, 2004). ...