About the Authors

Charles P.-A. Bourque

cbourque@unb.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

Mahmoud Bayat

Affiliation Department of Forestry, Natural Resources Faculty, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CPAB. Performed the experiments: CPAB MB. Analyzed the data: CPAB MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CPAB MB. Wrote the paper: CPAB MB. Field data collection: MB. Species Diversity Determination: MB.