Sabkha Ecosystems : Volume IV: Cash Crop Halophyte and Biodiversity Conservation /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Colección: | Tasks for Vegetation Science,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Authors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Economic sustainability for halophyte cash farms in urban environments
- 2. Spatial distribution of soil salinity and its management options in the Northern Emirates, UAE
- 3. Gypsum crystals formation and habits, Umm Said sabkha, Qatar
- 4. Distribution, ecology and ecophysiology of mangroves in Pakistan
- 5. Halophytes for the production of liquid biofuels
- 6. Feasibility of halophyte domestication for high-salinity agriculture
- 7. The gypsum dunes of Cuatrociénegas Valley, Mexico – A secondary Sabkha ecosystem with gypsophytes
- 8. Effects of seed storage on germination of desert halophytes with transient seed bank
- 9. Halophytes of southwest Asia
- 10. From halophyte research to halophytes farming
- 11. Interactive effect of salinity and drought on the germination of dimorphic seeds of Suaeda salsa
- 12. Kochia (Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad) unwanted or wanted plant for forage production in harsh environments
- 13. Importance of the diversity in between halophytes to agriculture and land management in arid and semiarid countries
- 14. Is soil heterogeneity the major factor influencing vegetation zonation at Karachi coast?
- 15. Research and development with seawater and halophytic plants for sustainable saline agro systems in the Arabian Gulf
- 16. Salinity tolerant turfgrasses for biosaline urban landscape agriculture
- 17. Ecology, distribution and ecophysiology of Salicornia Europaea L.
- 18. Germination pre-treatments in Haloxylon persicum (Amaranthaceae), an economically important tree of desert ecosystems in western Asia
- 19. Halophytes in the east Mediterranean – their medicinal and other economical values
- 20. Germination and early seedling growth of two salt-tolerant Atriplex species that prevent erosion in Iranian deserts
- 21. Salt marshes and biodiversity
- 22. Distinctive features and role of sulfur-containing compounds in marine plants, seaweeds, seagrasses and halophytes from an evolutionary point of view
- 23. The chemical composition and technological properties of seagrasses – a basis for their use (a review)
- 24. Seagrass terraces for food security and carbon sequestration
- 25. Floating mangroves: the solution to reduce atmospheric carbon levels and land-based marine pollution?
- 26. World Halophyte Garden: Economic dividends with global significance
- Index.