Climate and Ecosystem of Arid and Semi-arid Regions

Climate and Ecosystem of Arid and Semi-arid Regions

The climate and ecosystems of arid and semi-arid regions journal is published with the aim of introducing scientific research achievements related to the climate and ecosystems of arid regions. All experts in related fields are invited to send the results of their scientific researches to this publication for publication. The purpose of publishing this publication is to provide a space for the exchange of scientific and specialized information in scientific and professional communities, as well as to raise the level of current knowledge in the field of sciences related to the ecosystems of arid and semi-arid regions and the governing factors and relationships. This publication is published regularly in two quarterly forms. The content is published after going through the judging process. The average review time in this magazine is two months. Adjusting the submitted articles based on the guidelines for the preparation of journal articles will speed up the work routine.


Article Processing Charges (APC):

Article submission and publication in this journal are free of charge until the journal obtains its academic accreditation from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Following accreditation, the following fees will apply:

  • Submission/Review Fee: 100,000 Tomans (payable upon manuscript submission)
  • Publication Fee: 400,000 Tomans (payable upon final acceptance)

Copyright and License

All articles published in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Authors retain the copyright of their work. This license permits others to download, use, share, adapt, and redistribute the content, provided that proper credit is given to the original authors and the journal, and that the use is strictly non-commercial.

Plagiarism and Publication Ethics

This journal follows the ethical principles of COPE. In cases of confirmed plagiarism, the editorial board will review the matter, and the article may be retracted. Authors found to have committed plagiarism may be restricted from submitting future manuscripts to the journal.

Current Issue: Volume 2, Issue 2 - Serial Number 3, December 2025, Pages 1-227 

The main purpose of publishing this Journal is to provide a space for the exchange of scientific and specialized information between scientists and professional communities and to raise the level of knowledge about the climate and ecosystems of arid and semi-arid regions, which considers issues related to this field.

The scope of the Journal:

Mathematical modeling and environmental foresight

Environmental hazards

Harmful atmospheric and climatic phenomena

Climate change

Geomorphology of arid and semi-arid regions

Hydrology

Hydrometeorology

Ecology of arid and semi-arid regions

Ecological restoration

Soil and plant relations

Forestry

Erosion processes and soil protection

Watershed management

Social and economic issues of natural resources

Human, culture and nature

Ecotourism and tourism in arid and semi-arid areas

Remote sensing and geographic information systems

Publication Information

Publisher

Director-in-Charge
Editor-in-Chief
Manager
Editorial Board
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Semiannual
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Indexing and Abstracting

Keywords Cloud

  • Carbon sequestration
  • Hydrotherapy complex
  • Semnan province
  • Meteorological Drought
  • Environmental behavior
  • Tourism
  • Sustainable development
  • remote sensing
  • Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
  • GIS
  • Structural Equation Modeling
  • Deep learning
  • Sistan
  • Site selection
  • Precipitation
  • Soft computing
  • Health tourism
  • Dust
  • sustainable management
  • environmental
  • Climate Change
  • ecology
  • management
  • Semnan geyser
  • Water transfer
  • Road construction
  • SWOT analysis
  • wheat
  • Industries
  • Keywords: Rangeland
  • Natural attractions
  • Local communities
  • Sustainable utilization
  • Rural Areas
  • Impacts
  • Mobarakeh County
  • Standardized Precipitation Index
  • Damghanroud Watershed
  • Spatial-Temporal Patterns
  • Water Management
  • Ethnobotany
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Indigenous Knowledge
  • Mohammadabad Katul
  • Marzkouh Rangelands
  • Watershed Management
  • GIS Software
  • Runoff Storage
  • Flood Reduction
  • Karizak
  • Climatology
  • Markov model
  • zoning maps
  • synoptic station
  • Livestock
  • Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)
  • Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)
  • West of Iran
  • Station Data of Temperature
  • Station Data of Precipitation
  • Oxygen supply
  • CO₂ absorption
  • Economic valuation
  • Rangeland ecosystems
  • Desertification
  • Soil organic carbon
  • Land use change
  • Social Participation
  • ethical norms
  • GIS System
  • Tourism attractions
  • multi-criteria Decision
  • Drought Drivers
  • Reflection Model
  • Health risk
  • Rey County
  • Treated wastewater
  • Streamflow prediction
  • Pearson correlation coefficient
  • Tajan Basin
  • Agricultural drought
  • Normalized Difference Drought Index (NDDI)
  • MODIS sensor
  • Accuracy evaluation criteria
  • Ecogeomorphology
  • Coastal uplift
  • Sahara Sindhi habitat
  • Western Makran
  • Hormozgan Province
  • Spa spring
  • Alborz mountains range
  • Aquaculture
  • Environmental effects
  • Teleconnection
  • Temperature exteme values
  • Correlation regression
  • Charmahle and Bakhtiari
  • Cold waves
  • Wave duration
  • Z index
  • Planting date
  • Root
  • Direct planting
  • Seedling
  • Water resources provision
  • Underground dam
  • Plant coefficient
  • Vegetative stages
  • Potential evapotranspiration
  • Reference crop evapotranspiration
  • Rangeland suitability model
  • Beekeeping
  • Nectar- and pollen-producing species
  • Plant composition
  • FAO method
  • Temperature trends
  • Precipitation variability
  • Long-term climate analysis
  • Parametric ecology
  • Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA)
  • Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE)
  • Iran
  • Weighted Linear Combination (WLC)
  • Temperature
  • Heavy metals
  • Economic Growth
  • Groundwater