Sabkha Ecosystems, Volume V: The Americas (Tasks for Vegetation Science)

M. Ajmal Khan; Benno Boër; Münir Ozturk; Miguel Clüsener-Godt; Bilquees Gul; Siegmar-W. Breckle

ISBN 10: 3319270915 / ISBN 13: 9783319270913

Published by Springer, 2016

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Oversized hardcover, xxiv + 431 pages, NOT ex-library. Shipping weight over 1kg. Minor handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "This book is a part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series which was designed to provide information on sabkha ecosystems of different regions and to add to the collective knowledge available about saline ecosystems. The comprehensive coverage assists the reader gaining a thorough understanding of sabkha geology, hydrology, geomorphology, zoology, botany, ecology and ecosystem functioning, as well as sabkha conservation, utilization and development." -- Contents: 1 Prospects of Environmentally Friendly Farms for Food Security in Hot and Dry Coastal Areas Based on Seawater Irrigation and Wasteproducts: An Inspirational Proposal; 2 Halophytic Life in Brazilian Salt Flats: Biodiversity, Uses and Threats; 3 Physiological Ecology of Psammophytic and Halophytic Plant Species from Coastal Plains in Northern South America; 4 Morphophysiology and Biochemistry of Prosopis strombulifera Under Salinity. Are Halophytes Tolerant to All Salts?; 5 A Review of the North American Halophyte Suaeda linearis (Ell.) Moq; 6 Assessing Seed Germination Responses of Great Basin Halophytes to Various Exogenous Chemical Treatments Under Saline Conditions; 7 Genetic Variability of Three Annual Halophyte Species in an Inland Salt Marsh Through Time; 8 The Impact of Lake Bonneville and Lake Lahontan on the Halophytes of the Great Basin; 9 Halophytic Flora of Argentina: A Checklist and an Analysis of its Diversity; 10 Coastal Environments in the Bahía Blanca Estuary, Argentina; 11 Sarcocornia magellanica (Phil.) M.A. Alonso & M.B. Crespo: A Halophyte Native of Tierra Del Fuego (Argentina) Irrigated With Sea Water for Human Consumption and Sheep Meat Production; 12 Design Concept of a Reverse Osmosis Reject Irrigated Landscape: Connecting Source to Sabkha; 13 The Seed Bank of a Hypersaline Shrub Community in the Bahamas; 14 Salt Contaminated Water Phytotreatment by Constructed Wetland; 15 Agriculture and Sheep Production on Patagonian Sabkahs with Sarcocornia neei Irrigated with Seawater (Chubut, Argentina); 16 Germination and Growth of Panicum virgatum Cultivars in a NaCl Gradient; 17 Floristic Diversity of Halophytic Plants of Mexico; 18 Soil-Plant Relationships in the Sabkhat of America; 19 Effects of Competition, Salinity and Disturbance on the Growth of Poa pratensis (Kentucky Bluegrass) and Puccinellia nuttalliana (Nuttall's Alkaligrass); 20 Ecophysiology of Native Species from Patagonian Monte, Argentina; 21 Distichlis palmeri: An Endemic Grass in the Coastal Sabkhas of the Northern Gulf of California and a Potential New Grain Crop for Saltwater Agriculture; 22 Effect by Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria (Azospirillum halopraeferens and Klebsiella pneumoniae) on Lipid Value in Seed of the Halophyte Salicornia bigelovii Torr.; 23 Factors Affecting Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus L.) Germination; 24 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Associated to Halophytes: Potential Applications in Agriculture; Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sabkha Ecosystems, Volume V: The Americas (Tasks for Vegetation Science)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319270915
• ISBN 13: 9783319270913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book is a part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series which was designed to provide information on sabkha ecosystems of different regions and to add to the collective knowledge available about saline ecosystems. The comprehensive coverage assists the reader gaining a thorough understanding of sabkha geology, hydrology, geomorphology, zoology, botany, ecology and ecosystem functioning, as well as sabkha conservation, utilization and development. Volume I focused on The Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Countries, volume II was based on describing saline ecosystems of West and Central Asia , volume III referred to Africa and Southern Europe, while volume IV focused on Cash Crop Halophyte and Biodiversity Conservation. The present volume V focuses on Americans.

About the Author

Herausgeber: Professor Dr. Heinrich Walter (verstorben) Professor Dr. Siegmar-Walter Breckle (1966 bis 1969 Dozent f?r Botanik an der Universit?t Kabul/Afghanistan. Seit 1979 Leiter der Abteilung ?kologie der Universit?t Bielefeld. Teilnehmer der Forschergruppe "Tropischer Bergregenwald.")