Investigation of Climatic Parameters Affecting Annual Forage Production in BidAlam rangeland, Abadeh, Fars Province, Iran

Subject Areas : Analysis and Evaluation

Hossein Arzani ¹ , Eshagh Omidvar ² , Saeed Mohtashamnia ³ , Seyed akbar Javadi ⁴ , Mohammad Jafary ⁵

1 - Tehran university
2 - Department of Rangeland, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tehran, Iran, University of Science and Research
3 - Islamic Azad University-Arsanjan
4 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Natural Resources, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research of Tehran, Iran.
5 - university of Tehran

Received: 2019-08-09 Accepted : 2020-04-17 Published : 2020-07-01

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