Plants of Desert Dunes

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. Sand Deserts of the World

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4. Environmental Stresses in the Sand Desert

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5. Habitat Types of Desert Dunes

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6. Plant Case Histories and Ecomorphological Types

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7. Typical Transects in a Few Plant Communities and Their Edaphic Relationships

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8. Plant Adaptations to Environmental Stresses in Desert Dunes

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9. Comparison Between Plants of Desert Dunes, Extreme Desert, and Coastal Dunes

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10. Back Matter

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Based on three decades of field experience in southwest Asia, southern Africa, and the southwest United States, the author summarizes the major adaptations of plants to desert dunes. This integrative study of plant and diaspore morphology, reactive growth, life cycles, and environmental factors explains and predicts plant distribution. Many kinds of dune syndromes, plant case studies and vegetation transects are discussed and illustrated to clarify the significance of adaptations to specific habitat factors. Although the focus is on vascular plants, the development of microbiotic soil crust, its function, and its composition are discussed as well.

• Geomorphologie
• adaptation
• adaptions, desert
• desert
• development
• dunes
• ecology
• ecology, plants
• environment
• geomorphology
• growth
• plant
• plants
• soil
• vegetation

"...a fitting companion to others in the series and should become a standard reference" - Journal of Arid Environments

• Department of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  Avinoam Danin

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