The Changing Desert

Author : Lisa McPartland
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781725300231

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Changing Desert Environments by Lisa McPartland Pdf

Many people have heard of Earth's largest deserts: the Sahara in northern Africa, the Gobi in east central Asia, and the Arabian in the Arabian Peninsula. However, some people may not know that these deserts weren't always so big. Desertification is the process by which natural or human causes turn previously productive land into desert areas. This book explores the different causes of desertification and the ways even longtime desert lands can change. Fact boxes and sidebars provide readers with additional information relating to the main text.

Author : Ada Graham,Frank Graham
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Desert ecology
ISBN : 0684171465

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The Changing Desert by Ada Graham,Frank Graham Pdf

Describes the plants, animals, weather, and history of desert areas; man's adverse influence on these lands; and efforts to preserve what is left.

Author : Dan Rabinowitz
Publisher : Stanford Briefs
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1503609987

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The Power of Deserts by Dan Rabinowitz Pdf

Hotter and dryer than most parts of the world, the Middle East could soon see climate change exacerbate food and water shortages, aggravate social inequalities, and drive displacement and political destabilization. And as renewable energy eclipses fossil fuels, oil rich countries in the Middle East will see their wealth diminish. Amidst these imminent risks is a call to action for regional leaders. Could countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates harness the region's immense potential for solar energy and emerge as vanguards of global climate action? The Power of Deserts surveys regional climate models and identifies the potential impact on socioeconomic disparities, population movement, and political instability. Offering more than warning and fear, however, the book highlights a potentially brighter future--a recent shift across the Middle East toward renewable energy. With his deep knowledge of the region and knack for presenting scientific data with clarity, Dan Rabinowitz makes a sober yet surprisingly optimistic investigation of opportunity arising from a looming crisis.

Author : Eddie John Van Etten,Glenda M. Wardle,Matthew Brooks,Aaron Greenville
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832502433

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Fire Regimes in Desert Ecosystems: Drivers, Impacts and Changes by Eddie John Van Etten,Glenda M. Wardle,Matthew Brooks,Aaron Greenville Pdf

Author : Gökçe Günel
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478000724

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Spaceship in the Desert by Gökçe Günel Pdf

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi. While many of Masdar's initiatives—such as developing a new energy currency and a driverless rapid transit network—have stalled or not met expectations, Günel analyzes how these initiatives contributed to rendering the future a thinly disguised version of the fossil-fueled present. Spaceship in the Desert tells the story of Masdar, at once a “utopia” sponsored by the Emirati government, and a well-resourced company involving different actors who participated in the project, each with their own agendas and desires.

Author : B.K. Tyagi,Q.H. Baqri
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789387307506

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Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert by B.K. Tyagi,Q.H. Baqri Pdf

Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert - dedicated to the fond memory of Professor Dr. Ishwar Prakash, the legendary rodentologist - is a unique mlange of scientific investigations on diversified ecological subjects pertaining to different organism groups, from as tiny as protozoa to as giant as mammals. Altogether sixteen contributions, including an original, up-to-date and authentic bio-bibliography of Dr. I. Prakash, make this volume an exceptional treatise penned by 24 expert scientist authors many of whom have spent a life in arid ecosystems including the Thar Desert. The book provides a crystal clear proof of the constantly changing behavioural ecology of animals in the Thar Desert which has been under an ever increasing impact of, among several imminent factors, the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP), one of the worlds largest irrigation systems of its type in a xeric environment. The change is discernible not only in structure and distribution of animals but in their resting, feeding, breeding and, as evident in case of parasites, the extent of parasitism as well as pathogenecity. Finally, this book offers the first well documented evidence of immense behavioral transformation in various different animal groups in the Tharp Desert a phenomenon of enormous significance for both conservation management and diversity inventorization activities of its faunal wealth.

Author : Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640094710

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Desert Notebooks by Ben Ehrenreich Pdf

Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.

Author : Walter G. Whitford,Benjamin D. Duval
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780081026557

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Ecology of Desert Systems by Walter G. Whitford,Benjamin D. Duval Pdf

Nearly one-third of the land area on our planet is classified as arid or desert. Therefore, an understanding of the dynamics of such arid ecosystems is essential to managing those systems in a way that sustains human populations. This second edition of Ecology of Desert Systems provides a clear, extensive guide to the complex interactions involved in these areas. This book details the relationships between abiotic and biotic environments of desert ecosystems, demonstrating to readers how these interactions drive ecological processes. These include plant growth and animal reproductive success, the spatial and temporal distribution of vegetation and animals, and the influence of invasive species and anthropogenic climate change specific to arid systems. Drawing on the extensive experience of its expert authors, Ecology of Desert Systems is an essential guide to arid ecosystems for students looking for an overview of the field, researchers keen to learn how their work fits in to the overall picture, and those involved with environmental management of desert areas. Highlights the complexity of global desert systems in a clear, concise way Reviews the most current issues facing researchers in the field, including the spread of invasive species due to globalized trade, the impact of industrial mining, and climate change Updated and extended to include information on invasive species management, industrial mining impacts, and the current and future role of climate change in desert systems

Author : Lawrence R. Walker,Frederick H. Landau
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816532629

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A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by Lawrence R. Walker,Frederick H. Landau Pdf

Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.

Author : Neil Morris
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1410901769

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Earth's Changing Deserts by Neil Morris Pdf

Examines how deserts are formed and how they are constantly changing, what animals and plants live there, ways in which humans live in and change deserts.

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0816510814

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Blue Desert by Charles Bowden Pdf

Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

Author : James L. A. Webb
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0299143341

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Desert Frontier by James L. A. Webb Pdf

Documents the increasing aridity of the transitional zone between the full desert of the Sahara and the open grassland of western Africa, the border moving 200-300 kilometers south during a brief two and half centuries; and the political and economic changes as pastoral nomads of the desert edge followed the shift south, and the agricultural communities in their way had to abandon their villages or face subjugation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Maria C. Mandujano,Irene Pisanty,Luis E. Eguiarte
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030449636

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Plant Diversity and Ecology in the Chihuahuan Desert by Maria C. Mandujano,Irene Pisanty,Luis E. Eguiarte Pdf

Environmental and specific diversity in the Chihuahuan desert in general, and in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in particular, has long been recognized as outstanding. This book provides a global ecological overview, together with in-depth studies of specific processes. The Chihuahuan desert is the warmest in North America, and has a complex geologic, climatic and biogeographical history, which affects today’s distribution of vegetation and plants and generates complex phylogeographic patterns. The high number of endemic species reflects this complex set of traits. The modern distribution of environments, including aquatic and subaquatic systems, riparian environments, gypsum dunes and gypsum-rich soils, low levels of phosphorous and organic matter, and high salinity combined with an extreme climate call for a range of adaptations. Plants are distributed in a patchy pattern based on punctual variations, and many of them respond to different resources and conditions with considerable morphological plasticity. In terms of physiological, morphological and ecological variability, cacti were identified as the most important group in specific environments like bajadas, characterized by high diversity values, while gypsophytes and gypsovagues of different phylogenies, including species with restricted distribution and endemics.

Author : Amadeo M. Rea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816534296

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At the Desert's Green Edge by Amadeo M. Rea Pdf

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Klinger Book Award, this is the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, presented from the perspective of the Pimas themselves.

Author : Martin Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107016910

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Climate Change in Deserts by Martin Williams Pdf

A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.