Ahmad Valipour

Education

BSc. in Forest Management , University of Kurdistan , Iran (2001 - 2005)
Thesis title: Management of Riparian Forests in Kurdistan Province
MSc. in Forest Management (2005 - 2008)
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PhD. in Forest Management (2008 - 2013)
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Courses

Bachelor Of Science

Urban Forestry

Forest Management & Planning

Social Forestry

Agroforestry

Socio-Economic Issues of Forests

Experimental Designs in Natural Resources

Principles of Forest Policy

Forest Management Plan (FMP)

Fundamental of Forest Management

Master Of Science

Monitoring & Control of Forest Resources

Sustainable Forest Management

Project Management

Linear Programming in Forest Engineering

Application of Decision Making Theory in Management

Forest Modelling and Simulation

PHD

Comprehensive Planning of Forest Units

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Research activities

Journal Papers

Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people Tobias Plieninger, Shahin Shamohammadi, Maria Garcia Martin, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, zahed shakeri, Ahmad Valipour (2023)

Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database Tommaso Jucker, Fabian Jörg Fischer, Jérôme Chave, David A. Coomes, John Caspersen, Ahmad Valipour, Arshad Ali (2022)

Early sprouting behaviour of Lebanon oak (Quercus libani Oliv.) in Zagros forests of Iran Ahmad Valipour, Hedayat Allah Ghazanfari, Manfred Josef Lexer, Manouchehr Namiranian (2021)

Environmental filtering, predominance of strong competitor trees and exclusion of moderate-weak competitor trees shape species richness and biomass Arshad Ali, Anvar Sanaei, Omid Asadi Nalivan, Khaled Ahmad auli, Mohsen Jvanmiri pour, Yousef Askari, Hasan Kaboli, Mohammad Aminpour, Jalil Karami, Ahmad Valipour (2020)

Big-trees – Energy mechanism underlies forest diversity and aboveground biomass Arshad Ali, Anvar Sanaei, Minghshi Li, Omid Asadi Nalivan, Mohsen Jvanmiri pour, Yousef Askari, Hasan Kaboli, Mohammad Aminpour, Jalil Karami, Ahmad Valipour (2020)

Impacts of climatic and edaphic factors on the diversity, structure and biomass of species-poor and structurally-complex forests Arshad Ali, Anvar Sanaei, Minghshi Li, Omid Asadi Nalivan, Khaled Ahmad auli, Yousef Askari, Hasan Kaboli, Mohammad Aminpour, Jalil Karami, Ahmad Valipour, Mohsen Jvanmiri pour (2020)

Structure of Pollarded Oak Forest in Relation to Aspect in Northern Zagros, Iran Loghman Ghahramany, Hedayat Allah Ghazanfari, Parviz Fatehi, Ahmad Valipour (2018)

Traditional silvopastoral management and its effects on forest stand structure in northern Zagros, Iran Ahmad Valipour, Tobias Plieninger, zahed shakeri, Hedayat Allah Ghazanfari, Manouchehr Namiranian, Manfred Josef Lexer (2014)

Relationships Between Diameter, Height and Geographical Aspects with Bark Thickness of Lebanon Oak Tree (Quercus libani Oliv.) in Armardeh, Baneh (Northern Zagros of Iran) Ahmad Valipour, Manouchehr Namiranian, Vahid Etemad, Hedayat Allah Ghazanfari (2009)

Conference Papers

Parameterisation and application of the forest model PICUS for Zagros forests of Kurdistan, Iran Ahmad Valipour, Manouchehr Namiranian, Michael Maroschek, Werner Rammer, Manfred Josef Lexer (2024)

The trend of changing biometric indices of oak trees in Northern Zagros Forests, Western Iran Loghman Ghahramany, Negin Moradi, Ahmad Valipour (2022)

Allometric equations of forage production of Lebanon oak trees (Quercus libani Oliv.) (Case study: Baneh, West of Iran) Loghman Ghahramany, Seiran Azizi Baneh, Ahmad Valipour, Shayda Khosravi (2015)

Study the potential of Lebanon oak (Quercus libani Oliv.) for coppice regeneration in northern Zagros forests of Iran Ahmad Valipour, Manouchehr Namiranian, Hedayat Allah Ghazanfari, Manfred Josef Lexer (2014)

The role of traditional forest management on local livelihoods in Northern Zagros oak forests of Iran Ahmad Valipour, Hedayat Allah Ghazanfari, Tobias Plieninger (2014)

Lack of regeneration and sustainability crisis of northern Zagros forests of Iran Ahmad Valipour, Hedayat Allah Ghazanfari, Manouchehr Namiranian, zahed shakeri (2011)

WorkShop

Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people Ahmad Valipour (2022)

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Research interests

Forest Management
Application of Ecosystem Models and Multi-criteria Decision Making Techniques
Analysis of Traditional - Social Forest Management
Dynamics of Zagros Oak Forests

Name: Fazlali Qaderi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: Evaluation of participatory-economic afforestation plan in Kurdistan province
Name: Azad Mohebat

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: The importance of natural resources of Kurdistan province in national development programs of I.R.Iran
Name: Soudabeh Babaveysi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: Consequences of recent socioeconomic changes on attitude and behavior of local communities towards forest
Name: Arezoo Akia

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: The role of rural women in natural resources management (the case of Chahar zebar, Kermanshah, Iran)
Name: Farid Ahmadi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: Legal status of forest resources utilization by local communities (case study: Baneh county, Kurdistan province)
Name: Ayub Pahlavani

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: Strategies for natural resources management in Divandareh County, Kurdistan, Iran
Name: Mazyar Abdolmalaki

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: Destruction of Natural Resources of Qorveh County: Causes and Solutions
Name: Jafar Abdollahpoor

AcademicLevel: PHD

Field: Forest Engineering

Thesis: Assessment of the traditional utilization systemsin northern Zagrosforests: strategies to improve forest management
Name: Abdolali Jalilian

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: Assessment of sanitation cutting performed to control oak decline in Kermanshah forests (Case study: Gilan-Gharb)
Name: Masoud Sarmadi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: The challenges of enforcing natural resources public land ownership law in Kurdistan province (The case of Sarvabad municipality)
Name: Mojgan Abdollahi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

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Name: Sara Abbasi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

Thesis: Modeling mortality of Persian oak trees under charcoal disease in Ilam forests, the protected area of Tange Da-lab
Name: Amin Hosseini

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

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Name: Somayeh Ebrahimi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: Forest Management

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Deputy Dean for Research Affairs, Faculty of Natural Resources (1401 - present)
Member of Workgroup for Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine of Kurdistan Province (1395 - 1397)
Member of Research Council of Faculty of Natural Resources (1393 - 1395)
Member of Research Council of R&D Center of Northern Zagros Forestry (1394 - 1398)
Advisor the Forestry Students’ Scientific Association (FSSA) (1395 - 1397)
Head of the Center for R & D of Northern Zagros Forestry (1394 - 1397)

Iranian Society of Forestry

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