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Vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. A. Henderson-Sellers
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  2. A. J. Pitman
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Part of the book series: Advances in Vegetation Science (AIVS, volume 12)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Desertification and global change

      • M. M. Verstraete, S. A. Schwartz
      Pages 3-13

    3. The role of land use planning in semi-arid areas

      • B. R. Roberts
      Pages 15-21

    4. The El Niño / Southern Oscillation and Australian vegetation

      • N. Nicholls
      Pages 23-36
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The chapters in this section place the problems of vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions into the context which recur throughout the book. First, Verstraete and Schwartz review desertification as a process of global change evaluating both the human and climatic factors. The theme of human impact and land management is discussed further by Roberts whose review focuses on semi-arid land-use planning. In the third and final chapter in this section we return to the meteorological theme. Nicholls reviews the effects of El Nino/Southern Oscillation on Australian vegetation stressing, in particular, the interaction between plants and their climatic environment. Vegetatio 91: 3-13, 1991. 3 A. Henderson-Sellers and A. J. Pitman (eds). Vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions. © 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Desertification and global change 2 M. M. Verstraete! & S. A. Schwartz ! Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, CEC Joint Research Centre, Ispra Establishment, TP 440, 1-21020 Ispra (Varese), Italy; 2 Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI48109-2143, USA Accepted 24. 8. 1990 Abstract Arid and semiarid regions cover one third of the continental areas on Earth. These regions are very sensitive to a variety of physical, chemical and biological degradation processes collectively called desertification.

Reviews

`I can certainly recommend this collection. The undergraduate student should certainly find this a very useful reference text but the general reader will find much to interest and inform.'
International Journal of Climatology, 12

` This book is an impressive and truly interdisciplinary collection of outstading scientific contributions on various aspects of semi-arid lands. Even though this book is strongly focused on the semi-arid lands of Australia, agronomists, ecologists, and climatologists from all over the world will find it of great interest. They will not be disappointed. '
Acta Oecologica, 14:1

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions

  • Editors: A. Henderson-Sellers, A. J. Pitman

  • Series Title: Advances in Vegetation Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3264-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1061-7Published: 30 April 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5440-9Published: 24 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3264-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 238

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Ecology, Atmospheric Sciences

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