Arid environments and wind erosion / Antonio Fernandez-Bernal and Mauricio Alberto De La Rosa, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernandez-Bernal, Antonio.

De la Rosa, Mauricio Alberto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arid regions ecology.

Revegetation.

Reclamation of land.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text focuses on regions classified as arid environments and how systematic, evidence-based synthesis may be useful for assessing ecological and cost-effective strategies for assessing revegetation in arid lands.

Contents:

Intro

ARID ENVIRONMENTS AND WIND EROSION

CONTENTS

PREFACE

BRAZIL'S SEMIARID CERRADO: A REMOTE SENSING PERSPECTIVE

ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BIODIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY

3. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANDFORM EVOLUTION, SOILS AND CERRADO VEGETATION COVER

4. VEREDAS DO PERUAÇU STATE PARK: A RESEARCH STATION ON CERRADO

5. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF SPECIES PERFORMANCE AND TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS FOR REVEGETATION IN THE MOJAVE DESERT, USA

INTRODUCTION

METHODS

RESULTS

DISCUSSION

FUTURE RESEARCH

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX 1. SUMMARY OF 55 SPECIES PLANTED OR SEEDED IN 23 REVEGETATION STUDIES IN THE MOJAVE DESERT, SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

EFFECT OF IRRIGATION ON RUNOFF AND LOCAL CLOUD SYSTEMS IN THE YELLOW RIVER BASIN

METHODS AND DATA

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ARID ZONES: THE INFLUENCE OF WATER AVAILABILITY IN THE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ BASIN, MEXICO

2. INTERACTION BETWEEN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DYNAMIC AND WATER RESOURCES

3. THE SAN LUIS POTOSI BASIN

4. STAGES IN SOCIO-ECONOMICS AND WATER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

5. SOCIO-ECONOMIC FORCES THAT DRIVE FUTURE WATER STRESS

6. WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN RESPONSE TO WATER STRESS

7. CONCLUSION

RARITY AND COMMONNESS AMONG COLUMNAR CACTI: AN EXPLORATION OF THE STORAGE EFFECT FROM A DEMOGRAPHIC VIEWPOINT

APPENDIX

THE STUDY ON IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE AGRICULTURE IN NORTHWEST CHINA

2. RESPONSES OF AGRICULTURAL CLIMATE TO GLOBAL WARMING.

2.2 RESPONSES OF AGRICULTURAL CLIMATE

3. IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SOIL MOISTURE AND CLIMATIC PRODUCTIVITY

4. IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CROPS

5. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

SOIL ACIDIFICATION AND BUFFERING MECHANISMS IN THE BOREAL BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION*

BACKGROUND

ACIDIFICATION AND BUFFERING EFFECT IN THE SOIL

FIELD OBSERVATION DURING 1999-2003

LABORATORIAL EXPERIMENT

CONCLUSIONS

DROUGHT AVOIDANCE AS A MAIN STRATEGY OF CROP SURVIVAL IN ARID ENVIRONMENTS*

NEGLECTED PLANTS OF ARID AND SEMIARID ENVIRONMENTS

TRENDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

UTILIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ARID LAND PLANTS*

ARID AND SEMIARID ZONES: CONCEPTS AND CLASSIFICATION

SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION

CAUSES OF DRYNESS

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ARID ZONES

ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ARID AND SEMI-ARID ZONES

BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND DROUGHT

CASE STUDY

MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION OF THORNSCRUB IN THE SEMIARID ZONES OF NORTHEASTERN MEXICO

DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY AREA

STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLANTS OF SEMI-ARID ZONES OF NORTHEASTERN MEXICO

PREVIOUS USES AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE RESOURCE

ESTIMATION OF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND YIELD

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

RECENT EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE SALTATING SAND PARTICLE TRANSPORT AND WIND-SAND INTERACTION IN SALTATION

2. EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY AND METHOD

3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4. CONCLUSION

THE DYNAMIC INTERACTION OF CLIMATE, VEGETATION, AND DUST EMISSION, MOJAVE DESERT, USA

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDY AREA.

REGIONAL CLIMATIC CONTROLS ON DUST EMISSION FROM THE MOJAVE DESERT

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDY SITES

SHADOWS ANALYSIS TO MEASURE SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESS TO EVALUATE WIND EROSION

2. SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS

3. SOIL SURFACE ROUGHNESS INDEXES

4. SHADOWS ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY

6. REFERENCES

CARBON AND NITROGEN DYNAMICS WITH ENHANCED WIND EROSION-MODEL EVALUATION AND PREDICTION

2. MATERIAL AND METHODS

3. RESULTS

4. DISCUSSION

NEW CONCEPT AND CONTROL MEASURES FOR WIND EROSION IN AGRICULTURAL LAND: A CASE STUDY IN NORTHERN CHINA

2. MECHANISMS OF WIND EROSION

3. DAMAGE OF WIND EROSION TO AGRICULTURE

4. WIND EROSION CONTROL

5. PROSPECT AND NEW STRATEGIES FOR WIND EROSION CONTROL

6. CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FUTURE RESEARCH

RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE ON MICROHABITAT USE BY LAND SNAILS IN ARID VERSUS HUMID ENVIRONMENTS

STUDY AREAS

STUDY SPECIES

SAMPLING METHOD

STATISTICAL ANALYSES

Untitled

EFFECTS OF SOLAR DISINFECTION AND HEATING ON THE SENSITIVITY OF VIRULENT MULTIPLE-ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT AND NON VIRULENT SENSIBLE STRAINS OF NON-01 VIBRIO CHOLERAE AND FECAL COLIFORMS ISOLATED FROM MARRAKESH GROUNDWATER

2. MATERIALS AND METHODS

3. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

4. RESULTS

5. DISCUSSION

TREND OF PHREATOPHYTE CONTROL IN ARID ENVIRONMENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTROL MONITORING AND EVALUATING

MONITORING OF PHREATOPHYTE CONTROLS.

REMOTE SENSING OF ET

EVALUATE ET AND WATER SAVINGS FROM SALTCEDAR CONTROL

DETECT BEETLE SPREADING OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

CONTROL EFFICIENCY

EVALUATION AND PREDICTION OF WATER EROSION IN ARID STEEPLY SLOPED AREAS IN THE CENTRAL-WESTERN PART OF ARGENTINA

4. CONCLUSIONS

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60876-534-2

OCLC:

872684252