Determination of Potential Habitat of Two Rangeland Species in Semi-Desert Area Using GIS (Case Study: Watershed of Kolah Deraz, Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran)

Subject Areas : Relationship between Animal and Rangeland

Ali Mahdavi ¹ , Mojtaba Jamshidifard ²

1 - Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Ilam
2 - Combat to Desertification, General Natural Resource Office of Kermanshah

Received: 2013-12-04 Accepted : 2014-03-11 Published : 2014-03-11

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