Sabkha Ecosystems Volume II: West and Central Asia
Sabkha Ecosystems Volume I: The Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Countries was published in 2002. It was the first comprehensive volume dealing with the subject of sabkha research, and sabkha environmental management. Valuable new information was provided f
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Tasks for Vegetation Science 42 SERIES EDITOR H. Lieth, University of Osnabrück, Germany
The titles published in the series are listed at the end of this volume.
Sabkha Ecosystems Volume II: West and Central Asia Edited by M. AJMAL KHAN Department of Botany University of Karachi Karachi, Pakistan BENNO BÖER UNESCO Regional Office in the Arab State of Gulf Doha, Qatar GERMAN S. KUST Institute of Soil Science Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russian Federation and HANS-JÖRG BARTH Department of Physical Geography University of Regensburg Regensburg, Germany
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ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-5071-2 (HB) 978-1-4020-5071-8 (HB) 1-4020-5072-0 (e-book) 978-1-4020-5072-0 (e-book)
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Printed on acid-free paper Cover photograph caption: The Dasht-e Kevir, or Great Salt Desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is primarily sabkha, composed of mud and salt marshes. This image was acquired by Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on October 24, 2000. It is a falsecolor composite image made using infrared, green, and red wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor’s panchromatic band. The image was kindly provided by NASA through the Visibleearth website http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
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Contents Contributing Authors
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Foreword
ix
Preface
xi xiii
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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Sabkha ecosystem and halophyte plant communities in Saudi Arabia ALI A. AL-JALOUD AND GHULAM HUSSAIN
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An overview of the halophytes in Turkey AYKUT GUVENSEN, GUVEN GORK AND MUNİR OZTURK
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The biogeography of the coastal vegetation of the Abu Dhabi gulf coast BENNO BÖER AND PETER SAENGER
31
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The sabkha vegetation of the United Arab Emirates GARY BROWN
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Desertification and sabkhat formation in the Aral Sea region GERMAN S. KUST AND NINA M. NOVIKOVA
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Biodiversity of halophytic and sabkha ecosystems in Iran HOSSEIN AKHANI
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The micro-organisms of sabkhat in Qatar I.A. MAHASNEH, R.F. AL-THANI AND G. BROWN
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Soil salinization and floodplain ecosystems of south-west Turkmenistan JANNA V. KOUZMINA
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Economic halophytes of Bahrain JAMEEL A. ABBAS
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10. The main regularities of dust-salt transference in the desert zone of Kazakhstan M.A. ORLOVA AND S.M. SEIFULLINA
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11. Halophytes of Pakistan: characteristics, distribution and potential economic usages M. AJMAL KHAN AND M. QAISER
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