Photos of the major habitat types of Iran. Deciduous forests: a) Hyrcanian forest landscape, northern Iran; b) beech forests of the Hyrcanian ecoregion, northern Iran; c) unique yew (Taxus baccata) stand in the Hyrcanian forest, northern Iran; woodlands and shrublands: d) Quercus steppe woodlands in Zagros, western Iran; e) pistachio-almond steppe shrublands in Kerman, southern Iran; f) Juniperus polycarpos woodlands in Semnan, northern Iran; g) Cupressus sempervirens woodlands in Hassanabad-Chalus, northern Iran; h) savanna-like woodlands, southern Iran; lowland steppes: i) Artemisia community in central Iran; j) inland sand dunes in central Iran; k) coastal dunes in Miankaleh Biosphere Reserve, northern Iran; l) Punica granatum coastal shrublands in Miankaleh Biosphere Reserve, northern Iran. Photos by A. Naqinezhad (a–b, d–g, i, k–l); A. Talebi (h, j); O. Esmailzadeh (c).

 
 
  Part of: Ramzi S, Noroozi J, Gholizadeh H, Hamzeh’ee B, Asri Y, Talebi A, Moradi H, Mahdavi P, Tamjidi Eramsadati SS, Zarezadeh S, Kamrani A, Esmailzadeh O, Ghorbanalizadeh A, Bashirzadeh M, Jalili A, Sharifi J, Moradi A, Bidarlord M, Siadati S, Lotfi S, Attar F, Darzi MM, Gorji ZK, Ghasemi S, Dehghani M, Rahmanian S, Esmailpoor A, Sanaei A, Ghafari S, Ashouri P, Ali A, Dehghani A, Hosseini S, Hamedani H, Tirgan S, Maghsoudi M, Daneshi A, Eshaghi Rad J, Eslami M, Ramezani M, Mehrabi Z, Naqipour Z, Naseri N, Bahari H, Ashouri M, Vasefi N, Seyedakhlaghi SA, Ejtehadi H, Farzam M, Mokhtari S, Djamali M, Ramezani E, Zare H, Masudian N, Alinejad R, Kasiri M, Hosseini MS, Raeisi M, Ravanbakhsh H, Essl F, Jalilvand H, Abedi M, Bahalkeh K, Naqinezhad A (2024) IranVeg – the Vegetation Database of Iran: current status and the way forward. Vegetation Classification and Survey 5: 237-256. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.114081