Plant Ecology In The Middle East
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Author | : Ahmad Hegazy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0191078735 |
This advanced textbook explores the intriguing flora and plant ecology of the Middle East, framed by a changing desert landscape, global climate change, and the arc of human history. This vast region has been largely under-recognized, under-studied, and certainly under-published, due in part to the challenges posed to research by political disputes and human conflict, and a treatise on the subject is now timely. The book integrates Middle Eastern plant geography and its major drivers (geo-tectonics, seed and fruit dispersal, plant functional types, etc.) with the principles of plant ecology. The authors include the many specialized adaptations to desert and dryland ecosystems including succulence, water-conserving photosynthesis, and a remarkable range of other life history strategies. They explore the formation of 'climate relicts', and describe the long history of domestication in the region together with the many reciprocal effects of agriculture on plant ecology. The book concludes by discussing conservation in the region, highlighting five regional biodiversity hotspots where the challenges of desertification, habitat loss, and other threats to plant biodiversity are particularly acute. Plant Ecology in the Middle East is a timely synthesis of the field, setting a new baseline for future research. It will be important reading for both undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in plant ecology, evolution, systematics, biodiversity, and conservation, and will also be of interest and use to a professional audience of botanists, conservation biologists, and practitioners working in dryland ecosystems.
Author | : Ahmad K. Hegazy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0199660816 |
This advanced textbook is about Middle Eastern plants and plant ecology, presented within the wider context of the changing landscape, global climate change, and human history (particularly in relation to agriculture, conflict, and religion).
Author | : Kamal H. Batanouny |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3662044803 |
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.
Author | : Robert W. Simons |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2021-07-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813057833 |
This book is an invaluable compilation of ecological information on 244 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines found in the northern half of the Florida peninsula and in the Florida Panhandle. It covers the full range of native species in the region as well as common exotic plants, drawing on original experience and field research by ecologist Robert Simons. For each species, Simons describes the plant’s leaves, flowers, and fruit, geographical distribution, size, and lifespan. He also discusses its typical habitats, soil and light requirements, water needs and flooding tolerance, adaptation to fire, economic importance, and the plants, insects, and diseases most often associated with it. Notably, the book focuses on each plant’s relationship with wildlife, including which species eat the fruit or foliage or pollinate the flowers. It also features an introduction to the biological communities of northern Florida and a helpful glossary of botanical terms. The Ecology of the Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida provides gardeners, landscapers, scientists, and students a foundational understanding of how these plants fit into the communities of organisms in which they live and how they have adapted to their place in their physical environment.
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Total Pages | : 982 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Unesco |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Science |
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Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Peter Magee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2014-05-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139991639 |
Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world. This book provides the first extensive coverage of the archaeology of this region from c.9000 to 800 BC. Peter Magee argues that a unique social system, which relied on social cohesion and actively resisted the hierarchical structures of adjacent states, emerged during the Neolithic and continued to contour society for millennia later. The book also focuses on how the historical context in which Near Eastern archaeology was codified has led to a skewed understanding of the multiplicity of lifeways pursued by ancient peoples living throughout the Middle East.
Author | : Michael G. Barbour |
Publisher | : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Science |
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Terrestrial Plant Ecology synthesizes the literature pertaining to the ecology of wild plants into a survey for the undergraduate student to teach them the essentials of the interactions between plants and their environment.
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Botany |
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