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Institut für Geographie

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2023-2026: Scientific employee, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

  • Principal investigator of DFG funded project „Growth-based resilience indices for drought responses of Persian oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) along humidity gradients in the Zagros Mountains, western Iran„

2020-2023: Scientific employee, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

  • YunForest Project

2017-2018: Guest researcher at the Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg in the work group of Prof. Achim Bräuning.

2018: PhD. Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Iran.

2013: M.Sc. Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Iran.

2009: B.Sc. Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Khorram Abad, Iran.

Arsalani, Mohsen., Grießinger, Jussi., Aryal, Sugam., Bräuning, Achim. 2025. Sub-annual growth responses of Persian oak (Quercus brantii) to climate in the Zagros Mountains, western Iran: regional climate imprint is stronger than the influences of microclimate and elevation. Trees 39, 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-025-02685-z

Aryal, Sugam., Grießinger, Jussi., Arsalani, Mohsen., Meier, W. J.-H., Fu, P.-L., Ze-Xin, F. & Achim Bräuning 2023. Insect infestations have an impact on the quality of climate reconstructions using Larix ring-width chronologies from the Tibetan Plateau. Ecological Indicators 148, 110124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110124

Arsalani, Mohsen., Grießinger, Jussi.,  Bräuning, Achim. 2022. Tree‑ring‑based seasonal temperature reconstructions and ecological implications of recent warming on oak forest health in the Zagros Mountains, Iran. International Journal of Biometeorology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-022-02380-5

Arsalani, Mohsen., Grießinger, Jussi., Pourtahamsi, Kambiz., Bräuning, Achim. 2021. Multi-centennial reconstruction of drought events in South-Western Iran using tree rings of Mediterranean cypress (  Cupressus sempervirens  L.). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 567 (2021) 110296

Arsalani, Mohsen.,  Brauning, Achim., Pourtahmasi, Kambiz., Azizi, Ghasem., Mohammadi, Hosein. 2018. Multiple tree-ring parameters of Q. brantii  in SW Iran show a strong potential for intra-annual climate reconstruction. Journal of Trees 32: 1531-1546.

Arsalani, Mohsen., Pourtahmasi, Kambiz., Azizi, Ghasem., Brauning, Achim., Mohammadi, Hosein. 2018. Tree-ring based December-February precipitation reconstruction in the southern Zagros Mountains, Iran. Dendrochronologia  49: 45-56.

Arsalani, Mohsen., Azizi, Ghasem., Brauning, Achim. 2015. Dendroclimatic reconstruction of May-June maximum temperatures in the central Zagros Mountains, western Iran. International Journal of Climatology   35 (3): 408-416.

Azizi, Ghasem., Arsalani, Mohsen., Brauning, Achim., Moghimi, Ebrahim. 2013. Precipitation variations in the central Zagros Mountains (Iran) since AD ​​1840 based on oak tree rings. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology  386: 96-103.


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  • Growth-based resilience indices for drought responses of Persian oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) along humidity gradients in the Zagros Mountains, western Iran (Funded by DFG)
  • YunForest: Growth and physiological responses of forest to climate change along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in Southwest China


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