Author: Martin Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016916
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.
Climate Change in Deserts
Author: Martin Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016916
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016916
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.
Desert Animal Adaptations
Author: Julie Murphy
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429660309
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Simple text and photographs describe desert animal adaptations"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429660309
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Simple text and photographs describe desert animal adaptations"--Provided by publisher.
Adaptation to Life in the Desert
Author: Amiram Shkolnik
Publisher: Gantner Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Deals with the physiological adaptations of goats to life in the desert. Discusses water economy, dehydration, rehydration, blood and kidney function, energy metabolism and digestiveefficiency, thermoregulation, selective brain cooling,heat balance and milk production.
Publisher: Gantner Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Deals with the physiological adaptations of goats to life in the desert. Discusses water economy, dehydration, rehydration, blood and kidney function, energy metabolism and digestiveefficiency, thermoregulation, selective brain cooling,heat balance and milk production.
Ecophysiology of Desert Vertebrates
Author: Pulak K. Ghosh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Cactus Hotel
Author: Brenda Z. Guiberson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805029604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers."--Title page verso.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805029604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers."--Title page verso.
Physiological Adaptations; Desert and Mountain
Author: Steven M. Horvath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A Desert Calling
Author: Michael A. Mares
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674007475
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Travel ... into the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt, and the American Southwest ..."--Front inside flap.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674007475
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Travel ... into the deserts of Argentina, Iran, Egypt, and the American Southwest ..."--Front inside flap.
Behavioural Adaptations of Desert Animals
Author: Giovanni Costa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642793568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
After a brief survey of biotopic and vegetational features and an account of the main groups of desert animals, the most unusual patterns of the behaviour of the xerophilous fauna are examined. The importance of the thermohygric regulation and self-protective and locomotor mechanisms to the survival of arid-adapted animals is emphasized and various adaptations in the alimentary, reproductive and social spheres are analyzed. The clear and fluent treatment will awaken the interest of the reading public, from the amateur naturalists to research scientists.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642793568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
After a brief survey of biotopic and vegetational features and an account of the main groups of desert animals, the most unusual patterns of the behaviour of the xerophilous fauna are examined. The importance of the thermohygric regulation and self-protective and locomotor mechanisms to the survival of arid-adapted animals is emphasized and various adaptations in the alimentary, reproductive and social spheres are analyzed. The clear and fluent treatment will awaken the interest of the reading public, from the amateur naturalists to research scientists.
Plants in the Deserts of the Middle East
Author: Kamal H. Batanouny
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662044803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an introduction and no publisher will publish a book without one. I would like to inform my dear readers that I have spent almost all of the first quarter of my life in a village in the Nile Delta, 65 km north of Cairo. The everyday scenery there was the beautiful green landscape dissected with canals full of running water. All of these were bordered with the huge sycamore, mulberry and acacia trees. The desert was something unknown to me at that time, except for the very basic information given in geography books, which explained that the desert is a place without water or cultiva tion. Some of my ideas about the desert came to me from the stories in the history of Islam and the desert lands where Islam originated. My real attraction to the desert developed in the last year of my under graduate studies. This was during the field courses in Ecology (Prof. A.M.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662044803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an introduction and no publisher will publish a book without one. I would like to inform my dear readers that I have spent almost all of the first quarter of my life in a village in the Nile Delta, 65 km north of Cairo. The everyday scenery there was the beautiful green landscape dissected with canals full of running water. All of these were bordered with the huge sycamore, mulberry and acacia trees. The desert was something unknown to me at that time, except for the very basic information given in geography books, which explained that the desert is a place without water or cultiva tion. Some of my ideas about the desert came to me from the stories in the history of Islam and the desert lands where Islam originated. My real attraction to the desert developed in the last year of my under graduate studies. This was during the field courses in Ecology (Prof. A.M.
Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants
Author: Yitzchak Gutterman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540431725
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with physiological, morphological and anatomical resemblances, in the various stages of their life cycles. After 40 years of research in hot deserts Yitzchak Gutterman provides a comprehensive treatise of such adaptations and strategies. In doing so he covers the following topics: post-maturation primary seed dormancy, which prevents germination of maturing seeds before the summer; seed dispersal mechanisms with escape or protection strategies; cautious or opportunistic germination strategies; seedling drought tolerance. The day-length is an important factor in regulating flowering as well as the phenotypic plasticity of seed germination which is also affected by maternal factors.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540431725
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with physiological, morphological and anatomical resemblances, in the various stages of their life cycles. After 40 years of research in hot deserts Yitzchak Gutterman provides a comprehensive treatise of such adaptations and strategies. In doing so he covers the following topics: post-maturation primary seed dormancy, which prevents germination of maturing seeds before the summer; seed dispersal mechanisms with escape or protection strategies; cautious or opportunistic germination strategies; seedling drought tolerance. The day-length is an important factor in regulating flowering as well as the phenotypic plasticity of seed germination which is also affected by maternal factors.