Chemical analysis and antioxidant activities of bark extracts

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Hyrcanian forests are located at a green band extending over the northern slopes of the Alborz Mountains and the southern coasts of the Caspian Sea in Iran and are approximately 800 km long and 110 km wide, with a total area of 1.85 M ha . Hyrcanian forests encompass various forest types including 80 woody species. There are similarities between the flora of the Hyrcanian forests, middle European deciduous roadleaved forests and western North America’s deciduous broadleaved forests. When Europe and western North America were covered by ice during the Ice Age, Hyrcanian forest were alive, and at the end of frozen period, plant species of Hyrcanian forests immigrated to Europe. Therefore, the Hyrcanian forests can be considered as partly a renewal source of European forests. Nevertheless, the physiognomic and taxonomic aspects of the Hyrcanian forests are very different.

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