Shrubs indirectly increase desert seedbanks through facilitation of the plant community [PDF]
, 2019 The mechanisms supporting positive ecological interactions are important. Foundation species can structure desert biodiversity by facilitating seedbanks of annual plants, but the direct and indirect mechanisms of shrub effects on seedbank have not been ...
Filazzola, Alessandro +3 more
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Praying Mantis in the Desert. The Najdi Poet Ibn Subayyil Consumed with Love for the Bedouin
Arabian Humanities, 2015 ʿAbdallah b. Subayyil (d. 1933) is the last great ghazal poet of the pre-oil era in Central Arabia. He was the headman of the small old town of Nifī. He is famous for his lively descriptions of the Bedouin tribes who would spend the summer at the wells ...
Paul Marcel Kurpershoek
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Phylogenetic structure and formation mechanism of shrub communities in arid and semiarid areas of the Mongolian Plateau [PDF]
, 2019 The mechanisms of species coexistence within a community have always been the focus in ecological research. Community phylogenetic structure reflects the relationship of historical processes, regional environments, and interactions between species, and ...
Dong, Lei +9 more
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Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010 [PDF]
, 2013 Climate change has led to more frequent extreme winters (aka, dzud) and summer droughts on the Mongolian Plateau during the last decade. Among these events, the 2000–2002 combined summer drought–dzud and 2010 dzud were the most severe on vegetation.
Batkhishig, Ochirbat +8 more
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Point irrigation design for experimental field in northern part of Gobi desert in Mongolia
Soil and Water Research, 2011 The present paper focuses on the point irrigation design for crops and growing vegetables on an experimental area 2432 m2 at Buchel locality, Northern part of Gobi desert in Mongolia.
Pavel SPITZ +2 more
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Wildlife and Livestock Grazing Effects on Some Physical and Chemical Soil Properties (Case Study: Kalmand-Bahadoran Arid Rangelands of Yazd Province) [PDF]
Desert, 2014 Owing to the importance and necessity of identifying soil properties in arid rangeland management, and the variableeffects of different kinds of herbivores on soil, this study compares some of the physical and chemical properties ofsoil between two ...
Samira Hossein Jafari +3 more
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Why not be a desertist?: Three arguments for desert and against luck egalitarianism [PDF]
, 2018 Many philosophers believe that luck egalitarianism captures “desert-like” intuitions about justice. Some even think that luck egalitariansm distributes goods in accordance with desert. In this paper, we argue that this is wrong.
Brouwer, Huub, Mulligan, Thomas
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Journal of Fungi, 2023 It was previously reported that afforestation in the desert can help improve soil texture, carbon accumulation, and nutrient status. However, the effects of afforestation on soil microbial composition, diversity, and microbial interactions with soil ...
Weiyu Chen +8 more
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Star-forming Galaxies in the 'Redshift Desert' [PDF]
, 2004 We describe results of optical and near-IR observations of a large spectroscopic sample of star-forming galaxies photometrically-selected to lie in the redshift range 1.4 < z < 2.5, often called the ``redshift desert'' because of historical difficulty in
Adelberger, K. +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 C₄ is one of three known photosynthetic processes of carbon fixation in flowering plants. It evolved independently more than 61 times in multiple angiosperm lineages and consists of a series of anatomical and biochemical modifications to the ancestral C3
Jessica A. Berasategui +3 more
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