Arid Regions
Eco-geomorphology and vegetation patterns in arid and semi-arid regions
... Changes in the vegetation pattern and state in semi-arid regions are among the main indicators of the state of land degradation leading to desertification. If the vegetation cover is removed the ...
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Combining hydrology and mosquito population models to identify the drivers of Rift Valley fever emergence in semi-arid regions of West Africa.
... Background: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral zoonosis of increasing global importance. RVF virus (RVFV) is transmitted either through exposure to infected animals or through bites from different species of ...
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Pharmacognostial Characterization Of Some Selected Medicinal Plants Of Semi Arid Regions
... Pharmacognosy includes the study of the proper horticulture, harvesting and uses of the raw medicinals found in nature. Its scope includes the identification or authentication of crude drugs (using macroscopical, ...
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How to identify groundwater-caused thermal anomalies in lakes based on multi-temporal satellite data in semi-arid regions
... Satellite-borne thermal remote sensing provides the re- quired characteristic of repeated recording of the same lo- cation (Sentlinger et al., 2008) at defined intervals (several times per day to several days) with a ...
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USE OF BIO-WATER AS SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SEMI-ARID REGIONS
... It is important to note that, due to the advantages and beneficial socioeconomic and environmental benefits that the Bio-water can provide, it must be understood that it can present a disadvantage in terms of its ...
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Comparison of satellite microwave backscattering (ASCAT) and visible/near-infrared reflectances (PARASOL) for the estimation of aeolian aerodynamic roughness length in arid and semi-arid regions
... factors can interfere with the signal, such as volume scattering in sandy desert or vari- ations of the dielectric properties. The results from Prigent et al. (2005) with the ERS scatterometer were very encouraging and ...
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SOFT PATH WATER MANAGEMENT IN DRY AND ARID REGIONS OF THE ARABIAN PENINSULA BY RAINWATER HARVESTING
... Natural water resources in Saudi Arabia, like in other arid countries, are limited. There is also a lot of pressure on these resources due to alarming rates of increase in demand for irrigation (Al-Turbak, 1999). ...
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THERMAL EFFICIENCY OF INDIVIDUAL SHELTERS FOR GIROLANDO CALVES IN BRAZILIAN SEMI-ARID REGIONS
... A pair of thermal images (upper and lower surface) were randomly selected for each type of material, being a pair of thermographic images of sun- exposed surfaces an[r] ...
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LEGUMINOUS COVER CROPS FOR BANANA PLANTATIONS IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS
... use of cover crops can increase water permanence, organic matter content, and biological activity, and decrease soil temperature, thereby improving the productive efficiency of agricultural systems (ESPINDOLA et al., ...
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Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
... crops in the form of wind rows (Acacia cyanophylla or Atriplex nummularia in timber crops like barley), between cash crop plants, with the cash crop plant or scattered among the cash crop plants. The shrubs and trees ...
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Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation of Threatened Desert Ungulates
... and arid regions are increasing, and the progressive aridity conditions experienced in these regions are negatively affecting local biodiversity distribution ...neighbouring arid ...
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Performance of pearl millet hybrids under arid conditions
... the arid regions are likely to be more ...under arid conditions for identification of suitable parents and hybrids, for arid regions of ...
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Evolutionary History of a Desert Shrub Ephedra przewalskii (Ephedraceae): Allopatric Divergence and Range Shifts in Northwestern China.
... adjacent arid regions has been studied, and three main lineages were found and sys- tematic positions of some species were confirmed among members of the genus ...in arid northwestern ...
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Deborah Oliveira, Maria Medeiros, Silvia Pereira, Marciel Oliveira, Gabriella Frosi, Emília Arruda, Mauro Santos
... The Northeastern semi-arid region of Brazil includes the most endangered ecosystem, Caatinga, which is a seasonally dry tropical forest (Santos et al. 2014). Thus, plant species with economic potential could have ...
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Land Surface Model and Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based on the Model-Optimization Method for Improving Soil Moisture Simulation in a Semi-Arid Region.
... semi-arid regions, limited near-surface observational experiments, and large offsets in large-scale parameters obtained by the remote-sensing method, land-surface process models have a low simulation ...
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A temperature-precipitation based leafing model and its application in Northeast China.
... Currently, there are many phenological models to predict the changes in plant spring phenology, including bud, leafing, and flowering stages [7–12]. The simplest spring phenological models consider only temperature, as ...
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Effect of irrigation water regimes on yield of Tetragonia tetragonioides
... Soil salinization is recognized worldwide as being among the most important problems for crop production in arid and semi-arid regions [4]. Water deficit and salinity are the major limiting factors ...
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Investigation on use of superabsorbent materials in forest seedling establishment
... in arid and semi-arid regions that are at risk of desertification is an important stepto control soil erosion and reforestation of degraded ...
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Biodiversity Conservation in Arid Environments under Climate Change
... Some species have peculiar behavioral patterns or secretive habits and/or live in areas of low accessibility, being therefore difficult to detect (Hu and Liu 2014). For example, data regarding secretive and nocturnal ...
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Agricultural sustainability in the semi-arid Near East
... As a general picture, the city-based, palace-centered economies of the LBA were replaced by regional states in the Iron Age (Akkermans and Schwartz, 2003:360). At least by the 8th century BC, if not earlier in the LBA, ...
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