Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Department of Environment of Iran for its technical support. Our special thank goes to the Iranian team that helped us during field sampling: Roozbeh Behrooz, Kamran Almasieh, Mohammadreza Masoud, Saeid Khaki, Jalil Imani Harsini. In particular we thank the game guards and local people who were a great help in surveying the species distribution in the Alborz and Zagros mountains.