arid lands — Scriptorium Liberum

Deserts and arid lands

✍ Farouk El-Baz (auth.), Farouk El-Baz (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 1984 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>Remote sensing is the study of a region from a distance, particularly from an airplane or a spacecraft. It is a tool that can be used in conjunction with other methods of research and investigation. This tool is especially applicable to the study of the deserts and arid lands of the Earth because

Reclamation of Arid Lands

📁 Reclamation of Arid Lands

✍ Mohammad Jafari et al. 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Springer International Publishing 🌐 English

<p>This book provides an overview of arid and semi-arid lands conditions, their general characteristics, methods of management, conservation, exploitation and reclamation. It also focuses on how to utilize the potential of arid lands with the minimum manipulation and alteration. Arid and semi-arid a

Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

📁 Biotic Interactions in Arid Lands

✍ Professor Dr. John L. Cloudsley-Thompson (auth.), Professor Dr. John L. Cloudsle 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

<p>The exigencies of life in the desert environment have resulted in the se lection of a diversity of adaptations, both morphological and physiologi cal, in the flora and fauna. At the same time, many plants and most small animals are able not merely to exist but even to thrive under desert condit

Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands

📁 Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands

✍ Prof. Dr. Jacobus du P. Bothma (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

<p>Arid lands require that organisms inhabiting them be well-adapted to thrive or even just to survive. This book provides a review of the ecological adaptations - be they behavioural, physiological or morphological - of carnivores to arid environments. Following a general introduction into aridity

📁 The future of arid lands

📂 Library 🌐 English

Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid

📁 Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

✍ Dr. Gerald E. Wickens (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

This book deals with arid and semi-arid environments and their classification, and the physiological restraints and adaptations of plants to the environment. Further, it discusses economic botany and the needs and methods of conserving economic plants. A broad view is taken regarding the definition