Arid Region
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A critical step in designing effective conservation landscapes is the identification of relatively intact natural habitats. Satellite remote sensing has been effectively used to distinguish relatively intact and degraded forests at a... more
Temperature is an important magnitude for many environmental models: (1) energy and matter exchange between atmosphere and surface, (2) weather prediction, (3) global ocean circulation, (4) climatic change, etc. Several methods have been... more
Sabkha soils are salt-bearing formations that are formed in arid regions. In their in situ states the sabkha soils have high compressibility and low shear strength. These soils are also heterogeneous and their properties depend on the... more
SUMMARY - "Current state and degradation of the Algerian pistachio orchards". Pistacia atlantica is widespread in South Algeria (semi-arid and arid regions). It can grow and stand strong winds and long periods of drought. The... more
More than one-third of the North American continent, about one billion hectares of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, can be considered arid and semiarid. Since the sixteenth century livestock grazing has been the dominant use of... more