Desert

Desert

 

About the Journal:

Journal Title: Desert

Country of Publication: Iran, Tehran.

Publisher: University of Tehran Press

Scientific Sponsorship Society: --

Subject Area: Physical, Biological, Anthropological and Integrated Approaches to all aspects of Environmental Management of Arid, Semi-Arid and Desert Environments.

Format: Print and Online

Print    ISSN: 2008-0875

Online ISSN: 2345-475X

Frequency: Semiannual

Publishing Schedule: June, and December

Language:  English

Open Access: Yes, free access to articles

Article types: Research and review papers.

Primary Review: 10 days, approximately.

Peer Review Policy: Double-blind peer-review

Average Refereeing Time:  24 weeks

Acceptance Rate: 20%

Article Processing Charges: No Article Publication Charges (APCs).

Citation Style: The APA citation style

Website: https://jdesert.ut.ac.ir

Email: desertrc@ut.ac.ir  

Gmail: --  

Tel: +98(0)2632223044

Address: Office of the journal International Desert Research Center, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Daneshkadeh Ave., Karaj, Iran. Postal code: 77871-31587.

Indexing & Abstracting: EBSCO, EBSCOhost, WorldCat, CABI, DOAJ, ISSN-ROAD, Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), National Digital Archives of Iranian Scholarly Journals, Noormags, Magiran, Google Scholar, Academia, LinkedIn, etc.

COPE: The journal of Desert follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential cases of misconduct.

Copyright: Authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights.

Type of License: Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Required files to upload: Authors must submit the following five essential files through the manuscript submission system: 1. Main Manuscript File (without the author details and prepared based on the provided template. 2. Title Page, 3. Authorship Form (must include the article title, full names of all authors, and be signed by all authors), 4. Conflicts of Interest Form (must be signed by the Corresponding Author and uploaded with the Main Manuscript File), and 5. Cover Letter (Please include any necessary information in the cover letter).

 

Current Issue: Volume 31, Issue 1, June 2026, Pages 1-20 

Origin, Source, Composition and Transport Pathways of Sand Dune (A Case Study: Garmsar Dune Fields).

Pages 1-17

10.22059/jdesert.2026.107462

Naser Mashhadi, Majid karimpour Reihan, Davood Jahani, Yalda Mohammadi, Sirous Shamshiri

Derivation and Functional Evaluation of Pedotransfer Functions for Estimating the Soil Water Infiltration Rate.

Pages 18-35

10.22059/jdesert.2026.107375

Rahman Barideh, Fereshteh Nasimi, Alireza Tavasolee, Ahmad Bybordi, Reza Hassanpour, Yaser Hamdi Ahmadabad

Integrated Rehabilitation of Maharloo Wetland: Source Control and Ecological Water Allocation Based on Spatio-Temporal Evidence.

Pages 46-63

10.22059/jdesert.2026.107545

Bahareh Samadi Kuchaksaraei, Kamran Rezaei Tavabe, Elnaz Namdari Ghareghani, Hamid Zohrabi, Mohammad Javad Sayahpour, Yalda Movasaghi

Assessing Edaphic Drivers of Plant Distribution in Contrasting Soil Textures in Arid Environments.

Pages 166-182

10.22059/jdesert.2026.108048

Golnoosh Savartondrow, Mohammad Jafary, Hamidreza Keshtkar, Hossein Azarnivand, Hadi Eskandari Damaneh

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Keywords Cloud

  • Iran
  • remote sensing
  • Drought
  • Desertification
  • Wind Erosion
  • germination
  • climate change
  • GIS
  • Dust
  • soil
  • Drought stress
  • Geostatistics
  • salinity
  • SPI
  • Desertification
  • Wheat
  • Climate
  • Soil Salinity
  • geomorphology
  • Google Earth Engine
  • Yazd
  • salinity
  • Iran
  • Mulch
  • Kriging
  • Groundwater
  • Alfalfa
  • soil properties
  • Arid regions
  • Dust Storm
  • Lut Desert
  • IMDPA model
  • Criteria
  • NDVI
  • AHP
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Salinity stress
  • Erodibility
  • Arid lands
  • Desert
  • Green space
  • Land degradation
  • Corn
  • forecasting
  • Sand dune
  • MODIS
  • water stress
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Heavy metals
  • Groundwater quality
  • erosion
  • Semnan
  • Downscaling
  • Precipitation
  • Catalase
  • Wind tunnel
  • Mann-Kendall Test
  • Correlation
  • IMDPA
  • land suitability
  • organic matter
  • GIS
  • Maximum likelihood
  • Variogram
  • Water use efficiency
  • digital soil mapping
  • index
  • Persian Gulf
  • Arid rangelands
  • Allelopathy
  • Ordination
  • land use changes
  • Landsat 8
  • Land surface temperature
  • Soil erosion
  • Soil stability
  • Damghan
  • Kerman
  • Trend Analysis
  • factor analysis
  • Rainfall
  • precipitation
  • Soil water content
  • vermicompost
  • Sustainable Development
  • lead
  • model
  • barchan
  • proline
  • Kashan
  • modeling
  • Hydrograph
  • sand dunes
  • Diversity
  • Khuzestan
  • Pollution
  • Path analysis
  • Land Use Change
  • Irrigation
  • Wind direction
  • turfgrass
  • Aerosol Optical Depth
  • interpolation
  • Land use
  • Organic
  • Aeolian Processes
  • Stepwise regression
  • environment
  • BOD
  • Polymer
  • simulation
  • sorting
  • Hydrological drought
  • Electrical conductivity
  • simulation
  • Logistic regression
  • Drought Monitoring
  • Semi-arid agriculture
  • Pedological Criterion
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Severity
  • resilience
  • Rangelands
  • Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Dune
  • Solar radiation
  • Soil moisture
  • Landscape
  • GRI
  • Stability
  • Rangeland
  • Radicule
  • preference value
  • vegetation
  • rural women
  • discharge
  • Regression
  • Sodium Chloride
  • Runoff
  • Gully erosion
  • Landscape metrics
  • Barley
  • Self Organizing Map
  • Transformation
  • Grazing
  • Cokriging
  • ANP
  • Vegetation health index
  • Sodicity
  • soil conservation
  • Middle East
  • Haloxylon aphyllum
  • Abiotic stresses
  • Machine learning
  • Random forest
  • Neural Network
  • DEM
  • Deflation
  • polyethylene glycol
  • Field capacity
  • ANN
  • Classification
  • SDSM model
  • Vegetation indices
  • Tourism
  • Stress physiology
  • Lawn
  • Land use map
  • Land Use
  • soil pollution
  • Yazd-Ardakan Plain
  • Phytoextraction
  • Urmia Lake
  • salt stress
  • Carbon sequestration
  • Agricultural lands
  • Strategy
  • Watershed
  • Dameghan
  • satellite imagery
  • Jiroft
  • HYSPLIT
  • Water management
  • Mann-Kendall
  • Slope
  • Statistical Downscaling
  • smectite
  • wind rose
  • Cover plant
  • K+/Na+ Ratio
  • Climate
  • rapeseed
  • sodium
  • NaCl
  • Soil classification
  • Atriplex canescens
  • Pedotransfer functions
  • sewage sludge
  • aerial photos