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Plants in the Deserts of the Middle East

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Kamal H. Batanouny

    1. Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, Giza, Egypt

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  • Illustrates the harsh climatic conditions in the deserts of the Middle East and describes how plants manage to survive
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Adaptations of Desert Organisms (DESERT ORGAN.)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 1-3

  3. Deserts of the Middle East

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 5-10

  4. Climatic Aridity in the Deserts of the Middle East

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 11-24

  5. Topography and Plant Life

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 25-29

  6. Plants in the Arabic Heritage

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 31-37

  7. Adaptation of Desert Plants

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 39-44

  8. Adaptations That Increase Water Absorption

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 45-63

  9. Adaptations That Reduce Water Loss

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 65-101

  10. Adaptational Traits That Resist and/orTolerate Drought

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 103-126

  11. Adaptations That Engender Escape from Drought

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 127-133

  12. Adaptation to Desiccation

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 135-143

  13. Adaptation of Plants to Saline Conditions in Arid Regions

    • Kamal H. Batanouny
    Pages 145-166

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 167-193
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About this book

Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an introduction and no publisher will publish a book without one. I would like to inform my dear readers that I have spent almost all of the first quarter of my life in a village in the Nile Delta, 65 km north of Cairo. The everyday scenery there was the beautiful green landscape dissected with canals full of running water. All of these were bordered with the huge sycamore, mulberry and acacia trees. The desert was something unknown to me at that time, except for the very basic information given in geography books, which explained that the desert is a place without water or cultiva­ tion. Some of my ideas about the desert came to me from the stories in the history of Islam and the desert lands where Islam originated. My real attraction to the desert developed in the last year of my under­ graduate studies. This was during the field courses in Ecology (Prof. A.M.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, Giza, Egypt

    Kamal H. Batanouny

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Plants in the Deserts of the Middle East

  • Authors: Kamal H. Batanouny

  • Series Title: Adaptations of Desert Organisms

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04480-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-52572-1Published: 15 December 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08092-0Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04480-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1430-9432

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 194

  • Topics: Plant Physiology, Plant Sciences, Ecology

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