Sahar Ghafari,¹ Ardavan Ghorbani,^1,* Mehdi Moameri,² Raoof Mostafazadeh,¹ Mahmood Bidarlord,³ Azad Kakehmami<sup>1

1</sup>Department of Natural Resources, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Daneshgah Street, Ardabil, Iran
²Department of Plant Sciences and Medicinal Plants, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Faculty of Agriculture, Meshgin-Shahr Campus, Daneshgah Street, Meshgin Shahr, Ardabil Province, Iran
³Watershed Management, Forests and Rangelands Research Department, Guilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran Highway, Rasht, Guilan, Iran

^* Corresponding author: a_ghorbani@uma.ac.ir