DESERT ECOLOGY

DESERT ECOLOGY

$115.43
ISBN 9788197258978
Availability: In Stock
  • Author T.S. Chouhan
  • Year 2024
  • Bound HB
  • Page 285
  • Language English
  • Country Of Origin India

Item specifics

  • Author T.S. Chouhan
  • Year 2024
  • Bound HB
  • Page 285
  • Language English
  • Country Of Origin India

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Contents

Preface  

PART I

1. Desert Plant Physiology

1. Introduction

2. Tropical Desert Ecosystem

2.1 Etymology

2.2 Climate

3. Physiography of Tropical Deserts

3.1 Landscapes and Landforms

3.2 Hydrological Cycle

3.3 Desert Features

3.4 Vegetation

3.5 Plant Morphology

3.6 Water Storage

4. Physiology of Arid Plants

4.1 Germination and seedling behaviour of desert plants

4.2 Water Uptake and Transpiration in Plants

4.3 Photosynthesis and respiration of plants

4.4 Translocation of assimilates

4.5 Root Development Activities

4.6 Tolerance to Dehydration

5. Problems of Tropical Desert Regions

6. Strategy for Development

6.1 Rain Water Harvesting

6.2 Use of Surface Water

6.3 Water use in Canal Regions

6.4 Reforestation of Degraded Regions

6.5 Conservation of Pasturelands

6.6 Treatment of Degraded and Marginal Cultivated Lands

6.7 Utilization of Waste and Barren Lands in Plantation

6.8 Disaster and Risk Management in Desert Regions

6.9 Mode of Treatment

x Desert Ecology

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