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

Assessment of Fire Risk in Fars Province Based on Random Forest Model and Remote Sensing Data.

Pages 183-207

10.22059/jdesert.2026.108250

Mohammad Reza Kargar, Morteza Taripanah, Elmira Asadi-Fard, Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

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Keywords Cloud

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