Sabkha Ecosystems : Volume III: Africa and Southern Europe - Öztürk, Münir.; Böer, Benno; Barth, Hans-Jörg.; Breckle, Siegmar-W.; Clüsener-Godt, Miguel; Khan, M. Ajmal; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Preface; Turki Bin Nasser Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud -- Foreword; Walter Erdelen -- 1. Sabkha Regions of Tropical East Africa; Shahina A. Ghazanfar and Henk J. Beentje -- 2. A Review of Fauna & Flora Associated with Coastal & Inland Saline Flats from Namibia - With Special Reference to the Etosha Pan; Peter L. Cunningham and Willem Jankowitz -- 3. Introducing the Namib Desert Playas; Frank Eckardt and N. Drake -- 4. Quantitative Eolian Transport of Evaporite Salts from the Makgadikgadi Depression (Ntwetwe and Sua Pans) in Northeastern Botswana: Implications for Regional Ground-Water Quality; Warren W. Wood, Frank Eckardt, Thomas F. Kraemer and Ken Eng -- 5. Palaeo-Ecological Aspects of Farafra Oasis (Egypt) during the Mid-Neolithic Period (7130-6190 Bp): A Multivariate Analysis; A. Gamal-El-Din Fahmy and M.M. Abd El-Ghani -- 6. Halophytic Plant Diversity of the Sudanese Red Sea Salt Marsh; Oyma Karrar Osman -- 7. A General Assessment of Marine Turtle Nesting Activity on the Libyan Saline Coast; Daw A Haddoud and Hisham M. El Gomati -- 8. Current Challenges and Future Opportunities for a Sustainable Utilization of Halophytes; Ahmed Debez, Bernhard Huchzermeyer, Chedly Abdelly and Hans-Werner Koyro -- 9. The Salt Marsh (Sabkha) in the Western Part of Libya; M.O. El-Magsodi and Daw A. Haddoud -- 10. Biomass Production and Nutrient Uptake by Plant Associations in Ungrazed Areas Edging a Sabkha; Chedly Abdelly, A. Debez, K. Ben Hamed, Abderrazak Smaoui and Claude Grignon -- 11. Potential Role of Sabkhas in Egypt; An Overview; Hassan M. El Shaer -- 12. Halophyte Plant Diversity, Coastal Habitat Types and their Conservation Status in Cyprus; Münir Oztürk, Salih Gucel, Aykut Guvensen, Costas Kadis and Constantinos Kounnamas -- 13. Salt-Affected Soils and their Native Vegetation in Hungary; Tibor Tóth -- 14. Halophytes in the Republic of Macedonia; S. Mitrev, L. Mihajlov, F. Trajkova, B. Kovacevic and V. Zlatkovski -- 15. Low-Cost Mapping of Sabkha-Ecosystems using Satellite Imagery: An Example from SE Qatar; Jörg Beineke and Andreas Kagermeier -- Index.
Keywords: Plant ecology; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Ecology .; Plant science; Botany; Plant Ecology; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Ecology; Terrestial Ecology; Plant Sciences