Climatic and Environmental Reconstruction Based on Stable Isotopes of Parishan Lake (Iran)

Subject Areas : Relationship between Animal and Rangeland

D. Noorollahi ¹ , H. Lashkari ² , M. Amirzade ³ , Gh. Azizi ⁴ , S. Sharafi ⁵

1 - Eslamic Azad University, Branch of Khorramabad, Khorramabad,
2 - Shahid Beheshti University, faculty of earth science. Tehran
3 - Shahid Beheshti University, faculty of earth science. Tehran
4 - university of Tehran, faculty of Geography, Tehran
5 - Geomorphology, university of Tehran

Received: 2010-10-23 Accepted : 2011-02-19 Published : 2011-02-19

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