Collection and identifying Rangeland Plants seed and primary evaluation of these in Ardabil province.
2006
Maddah Arefi, Hassan | Ali Akbar Zadeh Aleni, Esmail | Azimi, Farzaneh
Ardabil province in regard to Special topographic characteristic and great difference between height of Low area with zom a.s.l 20 m in Bilesavar and high aerea with 14811 meter a.s.l in sabalan summit comprises a diverse climatic condition. Diversity in climatic deaphic and topographical characteristic resulted to a high biodiversity of plants specialley range plants. More than 800 plant species in this province have indentified. Like to other regions in world the intensive intake from rengelands plants have been very destructive in recent decades . high stocking rate and indensity in addition to traditional grazing resulted to declin of valuble range plants and the biodiversity extinction of palatable plants. The critical trend of biodiversity have a extensive concepts that consists of Gens , species and ecosystems. The understanding of the mechanism of this diversity is difficult. But the specialist of Agriculture and natural resources have information about this that in recent decades man manipolations resulted to degradation of natural resources and even in some case caused to extinction of some species . This trail and other trail like this carried out for collection of plant seeds, preservation of these evaluation of seeds and finaly for utilizatish of these in research trail and rehabilitation of rangelands and etc. The main aim of this trail is conservation of plant biodiversity. In excutation of this trail approximately 180 specimens of range seeds collected and 54 seed specimens from different species , accession and ecotype after packaging sended to the Naturaral resources gen bank in Forests and rangelands research institute.
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