Oasis, fertile tract of land that occurs in a desert wherever a perennial supply of fresh water is available. Oases vary in size, ranging from about 1 hectare (2.5 acres) around small springs to vast areas of naturally watered or irrigated land. Undergro
Far too little attention has been paid to water quality in natural environments in site suitability analysis. Such expositions are unsatisfactory because of excluding the quality of collectible water mostly because of data limitation. Therefore, considering water quality at the origin could be one of ...
Exploring all of the North American deserts, which occupy almost one-quarter of the U.S., would be a time-consuming, expensive and perhaps, dangerous undertaking. Learning about the different plants, animals and how they interrelate within each of these desert environments, would certainly be a...
East Juyan Lake is situated 44 km north of the city of Ejina Banner and is the terminal lake of the Heihe River, China (Figure 1a). This study area has an extremely dry climate and fragile ecological environment, heavily depending on the water supply from the Heihe River that springs from...