Plasticity of Leaf Morphological Traits Impacted by Livestock Grazing On Trees in Zagros Semi-Arid Forest

Hamid R. Naji; Maryam  Janbakhshi; Mehdi  Heydari; Mohammad  Shirkhani; Kobra  Azizi; Stephen Woodward

doi:10.3390/IECF2022-13092

Plasticity of Leaf Morphological Traits Impacted by Livestock Grazing On Trees in Zagros Semi-Arid Forest

Hamid R. Naji^* (Corresponding Author), Maryam Janbakhshi, Mehdi Heydari, Mohammad Shirkhani, Kobra Azizi, Stephen Woodward

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Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Abstract

Livestock grazing makes deforming, thorny and twisted branches. The leaf are the main food resources for livestock. We aimed to investigate the leaf morphological characteristics of Zagros forest species under the livestock grazing. Therefore, leaf morphological characteristics of six forest species were investigated in five forest stands in Ilam province. Morphological traits: leaf width, leaf length, petiole length, leaf area, leaf dry weight were measured. The results showed that grazing affects most of the leaf morphological traits. To sum up, the findings showed that tree leaves are more susceptible to grazing stress as the grazing will damage the tree growth and forest regeneration and structure. Therefore, knowing how livestock causes damage in the forest trees will help to lessen the forest destruction and then manage forest better.

Original language	English
Article number	60
Number of pages	5
Journal	Environmental Sciences Proceedings
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/IECF2022-13092
Publication status	Published - 21 Oct 2022
Event	The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests: Exploring New Discoveries and New Directions in Forests - Duration: 15 Oct 2022 → 31 Oct 2022 Conference number: 3 https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4931/22/1

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Funding: “This research was partially funded by Ilam university, grant number 04-IRILU-Ag-000156-22”

Keywords

Livestock grazing
leaf morphological traits
Forest Conservation
structural adaptation
Zagros forest

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Plasticity of Leaf Morphological Traits Impacted by Livestock Grazing On Trees in Zagros Semi-Arid Forest

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