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"This book is well written and would be engaging for students...a succinct and authoritative summary."
-James A. MacMahon, for ECOLOGY, April 2003 -- Review
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"Ecology of Desert Systems is well written and would be engaging for students with some knowledge of biology. It should also appeal to most professional ecologists who want a succinct and authoritiative summary of the important aspects of desert biology. It is written by someone who has paid his dues spending as much time in the field studying deserts as almost anyone I know."
-James A. MacMahon, for ECOLOGY, April 2003
"Whitford's book delivers a large amount of information on arid regions . . . I can recommend this book to anyone interested in the ecology of arid lands."
- Stefan Porembski, for PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONS, 2004
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"This book is well written and would be engaging for students...a succinct and authoritative summary."
-James A. MacMahon, for ECOLOGY, April 2003 -- Review
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"Ecology of Desert Systems is well written and would be engaging for students with some knowledge of biology. It should also appeal to most professional ecologists who want a succinct and authoritiative summary of the important aspects of desert biology. It is written by someone who has paid his dues spending as much time in the field studying deserts as almost anyone I know."
-James A. MacMahon, for ECOLOGY, April 2003
"Whitford's book delivers a large amount of information on arid regions . . . I can recommend this book to anyone interested in the ecology of arid lands."
- Stefan Porembski, for PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONS, 2004
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Nearly one-third of the land area of this planet is classified as arid or semiarid. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subcanopy soils, creosotebush shrubland, soil acari, unvegetated patches, foliar standing crop, tridentata leaf litter, stemflow water, subelytral cavity, intershrub spaces, desert watershed, annual plant communities, small rain events, ephemeral flora, kangaroo rat mounds, ephemeral stream channels, sucking herbivores, desertified ecosystems, burrowing spiders, desert herbivores, coppice dunes, nutrient resorption, ephemeral plants, foraging lizards, preformed water, lizard communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arid Environ, New Mexico, North American, Range Mgmt, Soil Res, Noy Meir, Soil Sci, New South Wales, South Africa, Van Zee, South America, New York, Jornada Experimental Range, South Australia, United States, Forest Service, Namib Desert, Saudi Arabia, Academic Press, Department of Agriculture, General Technical Report, Las Cruces, North Africa, Cambridge University Press, Lobry de Bruyn New!
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Nearly one-third of the land area of this planet is classified as arid or semiarid. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subcanopy soils, creosotebush shrubland, soil acari, unvegetated patches, foliar standing crop, tridentata leaf litter, stemflow water, subelytral cavity, intershrub spaces, desert watershed, annual plant communities, small rain events, ephemeral flora, kangaroo rat mounds, ephemeral stream channels, sucking herbivores, desertified ecosystems, burrowing spiders, desert herbivores, coppice dunes, nutrient resorption, ephemeral plants, foraging lizards, preformed water, lizard communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arid Environ, New Mexico, North American, Range Mgmt, Soil Res, Noy Meir, Soil Sci, New South Wales, South Africa, Van Zee, South America, New York, Jornada Experimental Range, South Australia, United States, Forest Service, Namib Desert, Saudi Arabia, Academic Press, Department of Agriculture, General Technical Report, Las Cruces, North Africa, Cambridge University Press, Lobry de Bruyn New!
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- Invertebrates As Webmasters in Ecosystems (Cabi Publishing) by C. Coleman on 4 pages
- New Mexico (Celebrate the States) by Melissa McDaniel on page 2, page 154, and page 231
- Nitrogen in Desert Ecosystems by N. E. West on page 21, page 272, and page 274
- The Desert Grassland by Mitchel P. McClaran on page 124, and page 235
- Desert soil fauna by John Anthony Wallwork on page 234, and page 275
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- Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications ... IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences) by Dan Binkley on page 117
- Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications ... IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences) by Dan Binkley on page 117
- Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions: Best Practices in Developing Nations by John Lemons on page 412
- Desertification in the Mediterranean Region: A Security Issue--Proceedings of the NATO Mediterranean Dialogue Workshop, held in Valencia, Spain, 2-5 December 2003 (NATO Security through Science, Series C: Environmental Security, Vol. 3) by William G. Kepner on page 323
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