Arid Land Ecosystems: Volume 2, Structure, Functioning and Management, Volume 2D. W. Goodall, R. A. Perry, K. M. W. Howes This volume was first published in 1981. The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of deterioration of the natural resource base and of low and declining living standards for the 300 million people who live in them. One prerequisite to meeting the challenge of reversing the deterioration and of raising living standards is a sound knowledge of the natural ecosystems. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Soilvegetationatmosphere interactions | 9 |
Dynamique à court terme des substances minerales dans | 13 |
Plantplant interactions | 33 |
Animalanimal interactions | 51 |
Plantanimal interactions | 85 |
Effects of biotic components on abiotic components | 105 |
Population dynamics | 125 |
Shortterm dynamics of minerals in arid ecosystems | 325 |
Dynamique à long terme de la végétation et écosystèmes arides | 352 |
Longterm dynamics in aridland vegetation and ecosystems | 357 |
The modelling of arid ecosystem dynamics | 385 |
Spatial effects in modelling of arid ecosystems | 411 |
a hierarchical | 433 |
the challenge | 447 |
Management of aridland resources for dryland and irrigated | 479 |
Primary productivity | 169 |
Production by desert animals | 199 |
Introduction | 263 |
Shortterm water and energy flow in arid ecosystems | 271 |
Nutrient cycling in desert ecosystems | 301 |
Common terms and phrases
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