Seismological Evidence for Lithospheric Low-Velocity Anomalies beneath the Eastern Mediterranean: Impact of Tectonics

Salah, Mohamеd K.

doi:10.1134/s0016852119050054

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“…The estimated divergence time between the two Iranian clades (4.9 Mya) coincides with the uplifting of the Zagros Mountains during the Early Pliocene. The uplifting of Zagros Mountains began as a result of the Arabian plate impinging on Eurasia in the Late Miocene (Salah, 2019; Sborshchikov et al., 1981). The separation of the Arabian plate from Africa was accelerated in the beginning of the Pliocene (ca.…”

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Genetic structure and ecological niche segregation of Indian gray mongoose (Urva edwardsii) in Iran

Oboudi

Malekian

Khosravi

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Ecology and Evolution

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Combining genetic data with ecological niche models is an effective approach for exploring climatic and nonclimatic environmental variables affecting spatial patterns of intraspecific genetic variation. Here, we adopted this combined approach to evaluate genetic structure and ecological niche of the Indian gray mongoose (Urva edwardsii) in Iran, as the most western part of the species range. Using mtDNA, we confirmed the presence of two highly differentiated clades. Then, we incorporated ensemble of small models (ESMs) using climatic and nonclimatic variables with genetic data to assess whether genetic differentiation among clades was coupled with their ecological niche. Climate niche divergence was also examined based on a principal component analysis on climatic factors only. The relative habitat suitability values predicted by the ESMs for both clades revealed their niche separation. Between‐clade climate only niche comparison revealed that climate space occupied by clades is similar to some extent, but the niches that they utilize differ between the distribution ranges of clades. We found that in the absence of evidence for recent genetic exchanges, distribution models suggest the species occurs in different niches and that there are apparent areas of disconnection across the species range. The estimated divergence time between the two Iranian clades (4.9 Mya) coincides with the uplifting of the Zagros Mountains during the Early Pliocene. The Zagros mountain‐building event seems to have prevented the distribution of U. edwardsii populations between the western and eastern parts of the mountains as a result of vicariance events. Our findings indicated that the two U. edwardsii genetic clades in Iran can be considered as two conservation units and can be utilized to develop habitat‐specific and climate change‐integrated management strategies.

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Genetic structure and ecological niche segregation of Indian gray mongoose (Urva edwardsii) in Iran

Oboudi

Malekian

Khosravi

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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“…The recent instrumental seismicity revels that northwestern Syria has relatively high levels of seismic activity in addition to the long history of earthquakes (Abdul-Wahed and Asfahani, 2018). Besides, the tomographic inversion at 12 seismic stations distributed in the northwestern Syria, exhibit the crustal structure is highly heterogeneous down to the upper mantle depths (Salah, 2019). Therefore, the northwestern Syria region is a key area in the eastern Mediterranean.…”

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Present-day stress state in northwestern Syria

Abdul-Wahed

Alissa

2020

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Northwestern Syria is a key area in the eastern Mediterranean to study the active tectonics and stress pattern across the Arabia-Eurasia convergent plate boundary. This study aims to outline the present-day stress regime in this region of Syria using the fault plane solutions of the largest events recorded by the Syrian National Seismological Network from 1995 to 2011. A dataset of fault-plane solutions was obtained for 48 events having at least 5 P-wave polarities. The tectonic regime for most of these events is extensional and produces normal mechanisms in agreement with the local configurations of the seismogenic faults in the region. Strike-slip mechanisms are more scarce and restricted to certain areas, such as the northern extension of the Dead Sea fault system. The results of the current study reveal the spatial variations of SHmax orientation across the northwestern Syria region. This spatial variation of the present-day stress field highlights the role of main geometrically complex shear zones in the present-day stress pattern of northwestern Syria. However, these results show, regardless of the relatively small magnitudes of the studied events, they provide a picture of the local stress deviations that have currently been taking place along the local active faults.

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Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of the poorly known genus Spalerosophis (Serpentes: Colubridae)

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Seismological Evidence for Lithospheric Low-Velocity Anomalies beneath the Eastern Mediterranean: Impact of Tectonics

Cited by 7 publications

References 66 publications

Genetic structure and ecological niche segregation of Indian gray mongoose (Urva edwardsii) in Iran

Genetic structure and ecological niche segregation of Indian gray mongoose (Urva edwardsii) in Iran

Present-day stress state in northwestern Syria

Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of the poorly known genus Spalerosophis (Serpentes: Colubridae)

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