Aims and Scope

Yazd University is honored to present the “Journal of Arid Biome” to the scientific community of world. The major mission of this journal is to publish the studies of researchers in the field of natural resources such as Desert, forest, Rangeland, soil, water, air and wildlife in the semi-arid, arid, and hyper-arid areas. The parts of Iran including semi-arid, arid, and hyper-arid areas except a narrow part of Northern Iran, with an area of 10% of the total area of the country, indicate the scope of research which can include. In addition, the scope of such studies can be highly extensive from other perspectives; some studies were conducted in this regard not only because of the multiplicity of resources but also due to extraordinary limitations. Thus, all experts who conduct such studies can consider this journal as a deserved place for submitting the articles resulting from their research. Since other studies were conducted in the semi-arid, arid, and hyper-arid areas of the world some of which can be also applied in Iran, some pages of this journal should be assigned for submitting such articles which will be certainly useful to the relevant executive agencies of Iran. Finally, since the final goal of publishing this journal is to inform the relevant executive agencies of Iran to how conduct operations appropriately in the above-mentioned fields. We hope that this journal will be useful for the above-mentioned executive agencies and therefore we welcome any suggestions raised in this regard.

This peer-reviewed Journal presents new researches (Original Article, Short Paper, Case Study, Technical Paper) on all aspects of arid environment, Including:

  • flora and fauna
  • Socio-economic issues
  • Soil Problems
  • Drought
  • Dust storm
  • Groundwater
  • Remote sensing
  • Wind erosion
  • Climate change
  • Land use