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Sabkha Ecosystems

Volume II: West and Central Asia

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Editors:
  1. M. Ajmal Khan

    1. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

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  2. Benno Böer

    1. UNESCO Regional Office in the Arab State of Gulf, Doha, Qatar

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  3. German S. Kust

    1. Institute of Soil Science, Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

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  4. Hans-Jörg Barth

    1. Department of Physical Geography, Department of Physical Geography, Regensburg, Germany

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  • New information on salt desert ecosystems in many countries, valuable for researchers, and developers
  • Essential information for developers and researchers for professional R and D planning
  • Sabkha Ecosystems are widely considered wastelands, however, they have an ecosystem value, a development value, a conservation value, and this needs to be understood for professional environmental management

Part of the book series: Tasks for Vegetation Science (TAVS, volume 42)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Sabkha ecosystem and halophyte plant communities in Saudi Arabia

    • Ali A. Al-Jaloud, Ghulam Hussain
    Pages 1-7

  3. An overview of the halophytes in Turkey

    • Aykut Guvensen, Guven Gork, Munir Ozturk
    Pages 9-30

  4. The biogeography of the coastal vegetation of the Abu Dhabi gulf Coast

    • Benno Böer, Peter Saenger
    Pages 31-36

  5. The sabkha vegetation of the United Arab Emirates

    • Gary Brown
    Pages 37-51

  6. Desertification and sabkhat formation in the Aral Sea region

    • German S. Kust, Nina M. Novikova
    Pages 53-70

  7. Biodiversity of halophytic and sabkha ecosystems in Iran

    • Hossein Akhani
    Pages 71-88

  8. The micro-organisms of sabkhat in Qatar

    • I. A. Mahasneh, R. F. Al-Thani, Gary Brown
    Pages 89-97

  9. Soil salinization and floodplain ecosystems of south-west Turkmenistan

    • Janna V. Kouzmina
    Pages 99-111

  10. Economic halophytes of Bahrain

    • Jameel A. Abbas
    Pages 113-120

  11. The main regularities of dust-salt transference in the desert zone of Kazakhstan

    • M. A. Orlova, S. M. Seifullina
    Pages 121-128

  12. Halophytes of Pakistan: characteristics, distribution and potential economic usages

    • M. Ajmal Khan, M. Qaiser
    Pages 129-153

  13. Floristic composition of a threatened Mediterranean sabkhat of Sinai

    • Magdy I. El-Bana
    Pages 155-162

  14. Salt lake area, northeastern part of Dukhan Sabkha, Qatar

    • Mariam Al-Youssef, Dorik A. V. Stow, Ian M. West
    Pages 163-181

  15. Salinization processes and sabkhat formation in the valleys and ancient deltas of the Murgab and Tedgen rivers in Central Asia

    • Tatiana V. Dikareva
    Pages 183-191

  16. Properties and functioning of pedolithogenic complexes of soils, rocks and waters of the forest steppe of Western Siberia

    • T. N. Elizarova
    Pages 193-200

  17. Natural, geographical, halogeochemical and soil features of Western Siberia

    • T. N. Elizarova, B. M. Klenov
    Pages 201-209

  18. Sabkhat regions of Iraq

    • Shahina A. Ghazanfar
    Pages 211-217

  19. The dynamics of halophyte ecosystems in the zone of impact of Kapchagai reservoir (Kazakhstan)

    • Rimma P. Plisak
    Pages 219-231

  20. Landscape ecology and cartographical analysis of natural salt complexes in the south west Siberia Basins of Lake Chany and Lake Kulundinskoye

    • V. I. Bulatov, I. N. Rotanova, D. V. Chernykh
    Pages 233-247
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About this book

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 for the sabkha of numerous countries on and adjacent to the Arabian Peninsula. This new volume now follows up on this important process, and provides data and information on salt desert ecosystems of numerous West and Central Asian countries, including many of which are located in the Arabian Peninsula. The information provided assists the reader to better understand sabkha geology, hydrology, geomorphology, zoology, botany, ecology, ecosystem functioning, as well as sabkha conservation, utilisation, and development. The volume is paramount literature for anyone dealing with sabkha research and development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

    M. Ajmal Khan

  • UNESCO Regional Office in the Arab State of Gulf, Doha, Qatar

    Benno Böer

  • Institute of Soil Science, Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

    German S. Kust

  • Department of Physical Geography, Department of Physical Geography, Regensburg, Germany

    Hans-Jörg Barth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sabkha Ecosystems

  • Book Subtitle: Volume II: West and Central Asia

  • Editors: M. Ajmal Khan, Benno Böer, German S. Kust, Hans-Jörg Barth

  • Series Title: Tasks for Vegetation Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5072-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5071-8Published: 22 September 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7274-0Published: 18 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5072-5Published: 27 August 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0167-9406

  • Series E-ISSN: 1875-130X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 263

  • Topics: Ecology, Ecosystems, Geology, Zoology

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