The main deserts of the world are the Sahara and Namib deserts in Africa, the Arabian desert in the Middle East, Turkestan, Gobi and Great Indian deserts in Asia, Peruvian, Atacama and Patagonian deserts in South America, the Great Basin desert in North America, and the Australian desert. A...
It is, on a larger scale, essentially a product of Paul Martin and his students in the Desert Laboratory at Tumamoc Hill. This group clearly constitutes a "school" in the classical sense and has corresponding limitations and advantages. While it is limited by the tendency to exclude the ...
A survey was undertaken in the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia, to document changes in total plant species richness and the richness of plants of significance to Aboriginal people, with time since fire. Species richness was highest in the early post-fire seral stages, then declined with ...
Each year, irrigated Saharan- and Australian-desert forests could sequester amounts of atmospheric CO 2 at least equal to that from burning fossil fuels. ... L Ornstein,I Aleinov,D Rind - 《Climatic Change》 被引量: 153发表: 2009年 Desalination using solar energy: Towards sustainability This...
Themulgagrows as a shrub or small tree. It is Australia’s most common tree, and the characteristic tree of the desert interior of Australia. The species gives its name to the mulga habitat – the dry, open woodland in which it is the dominant tree. The Australian phrase 'out in the ...
Biology and Multiplication of Prosopis species Grown in the Thar Desert Prosopis (Mesquite) trees are members of the Fabaceae family. They are the 'backbone' plants of many xeriscape environments including the Thar Desert because of their ability to fix nitrogen and tolerate aridity. Leguminous tr...
desert image by Horticulture fromFotolia.com Deserts are dry areas that occur around the world. From the African Sahara to the Sonoran in Arizona and Mexico to the Australian outback, deserts are harsh environments where only the toughest plants and animals can survive. All desert regions have en...
As we live in Cairns, North Queensland, the site concentrates on North Queensland plants but there are pictures from all over Australia. We also spend a lot of time looking at alpine and desert plants. The pictures are subject to the image use policy below. All the photos are of plants ...
In Australia's Tanami desert (which extends from the NT into WA), there are boabs that are also precious works of Indigenous art. Now researchers are working with Traditional Owners to document them before the trees succumb to old age. The actual age of the trees is uncertain, but there...
on a bright midsummer morning in the Swiss Alps near Arolla. Alpine grassland and shrub heath accumulate heat by decoupling from atmospheric conditions (low stature, dense structures). So the treeline can clearly be depicted as a thermal boundary driven by plant architecture. The transition from ...