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    Desert ecology is the study of interactions between both biotic and abiotic components of desert environments. A desert ecosystem is defined by interactions...
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    The Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora,...
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    the Mojave Desert, unlike the southwestern Great Basin deserts adjacent with ecotones to the northern Mojave Desert. Desert ecology Desert of Maine Deserts...
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    The Gibson Desert is a large desert in Western Australia, largely in an almost pristine state. It is about 155,000 square kilometres (60,000 sq mi) in...
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    The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the...
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    Understanding Desert Ecology and Livelihood Patterns [Ebook]. Retrieved from http://loksanjh.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Desert_Ecology_Study.pdf Bharadwaj...
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  • forest ecology, grassland ecology, desert ecology, benthic ecology, marine ecology, urban ecology; the geographic or climatic area, e.g. arctic ecology, tropical...
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  • This glossary of ecology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts in ecology and related fields. For more specific definitions from other glossaries...
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    have been an important element in the adaptation of cacti to niches in desert ecology. Some of the Opuntioideae have spines, as well as glochids, on their...
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    Ecology (from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) 'house', and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms...
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    The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...
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    The Eritrean coastal desert ecoregion is a harsh sand and gravel strip along the southern part of the coast of Eritrea and the Red Sea coast of Djibouti...
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    Plant ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the effects of environmental factors upon the abundance...
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    A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...
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    1958) was an American botanist and writer. He is known for his work on desert ecology and as the earliest botanist to research Chlorophyll. He was the inventor...
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    The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern...
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    Chaparral (redirect from Desert chaparral)
    2022 Desert Symposium at Copper Mountain College. Retrieved 2024-03-01. Knowling, Doug (2016-10-10). Ecological Restoration: Wildfire Ecology Reference...
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    27 March 2019. Rustamov, Anver K. (1994), "Ecology of Birds in the Karakum Desert", Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan, Monographiae Biologicae,...
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    Biome (redirect from Biota (ecology))
    Types (archived 6 July 2017) NASA's Earth Observatory Mission: Biomes World Map of Desert Biomes Portals: Biology Earth sciences Ecology Environment...
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    The Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, also known as the Southwestern Arabian coastal xeric scrub, is desert ecoregion on the southern coasts of the...
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    The Red Sea coastal desert is deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of Egypt and Sudan. The Red Sea coastal desert extends north and south along the...
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    The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...
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    Aridisols belong to the Calcisols, Gypsisols, Durisols and Solonchaks. Desert ecology Pedogenesis Pedology Soil classification Soil science Soil type "Aridisols"...
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    The Baja California desert (Spanish: desierto de Baja California) is a desert ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. This ecoregion occupies...
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  • desert ecology. The SIDEER encompasses two departments: the Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics and the Department of Desert Ecology...
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    The Sahara desert, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between latitudes 18° N and 30° N...
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  • melange", an examination of "the biology of sandworm", and essays on the desert ecology of Arrakis; the "feasibility of water-conserving still-suits"; and "the...
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    Dipodomys ordii, and Phrynosoma platyrhinos). The ecology of the desert varies across geography also. The desert's high elevation and location between mountain...
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    east of the southernmost region of the desert is the Jornada Basin LTER station, used for study of desert ecology, land management, plant physiology, and...
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    Endolith (section Ecology)
    dry limit of photosynthesis, and microbial ecology in the hyperarid Atacama Desert". Microbial Ecology. 52 (3): 389–398. doi:10.1007/s00248-006-9055-7...
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