The Biology of a Desert Apparition
Author | : Jay Martin Sheppard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Toxostoma |
ISBN | : 9780979058523 |
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Author | : Jay Martin Sheppard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Toxostoma |
ISBN | : 9780979058523 |
Author | : C. S. Crawford |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642857949 |
What little we know of the biology of desert invertebrates stems largely from inferences based on intensive and repeated observations. Such informa tion is not gained easily, since despite the actual abundance of these animals, relatively few of them are ever seen. In fact, except for species impacting on the well-being of human populations, historically most have been ignored by scholars in the western world. Indeed, it was ancient Egypt, with its reverence for the symbolism of the scarab, that probably provided us with the clearest early record of prominent desert types. A more modest resurgence of the story had to wait until the arrival of the present century. To be sure, some of the more obvious species had by then been elevated by European collectors to the level of drawing-room curios ities, and expeditions had returned large numbers to museums. But by 1900 the task of describing desert species and relationships among them was still in its infancy; and as for careful natural history studies, they too were just coming into their own.
Author | : David Ward |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0198732759 |
A revised and thoroughly updated edition of this concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology.
Author | : G. W. Brown |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2013-10-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 148322371X |
Desert Biology: Special Topics on the Physical and Biological Aspects on Arid Regions, Volume I covers the biology, geophysical characteristics, and ways of life in arid regions. This book is composed of 11 chapters, and begins with a brief description of a desert community, the Merkhiyat Jebels, with its diverse fauna and flora. The subsequent chapters look into the climate, geographical distribution, geologic and geomorphic aspects, and the evolution of desert community. These topics are followed by intensive discussions on desert plants, animals, and limnology. The last chapter describes the adaptive processes and human adaptation capacity to arid environments. This book will prove useful to upper division and graduate students in desert biology.
Author | : Stanley D. Smith |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642592120 |
Following a description of the physical and biological characterization of the four North American deserts together with the primary adaptations of plants to environmental stress, the authors go on to present case studies of key species. They provide an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the major patterns of adaptation in desert plants, with one chapter devoted to several important exotic plants that have invaded these deserts. The whole is rounded off with a synthesis of the resource requirements of desert plants and how they may respond to global climate change.
Author | : Institute of Biology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Desert biology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Kishan Gopal Ramawat |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642025501 |
Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert plants encompassing various aspects of desert plant biology. In this book, I have tried to present functional and useful aspects of the vegetation resources of deserts along with scienti?c input aimed at understanding and impr- ing the utility of these plants. The scant vegetation of deserts supports animal life and provides many useful medicines, timber and fuel wood for humans. Therefore, there are chapters devoted to medicinal plants (Chap. 1), halophytes (Chaps. 13, 14), and fruit plants (Chaps. 17, 20). Desert plants have a unique reproductive biology (Chaps. 9–11), well-adapted eco-physiological and anatomical charact- istics (Chap. 7), and specialised metabolism and survival abilities. These plants are dif?cult to propagate and pose many problems to researchers developing biote- nological approaches for their amelioration (Chaps. 18–20).
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Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : J L Cloudsley-Thompson |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781014429377 |
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