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Sabkha Ecosystems

Volume IV: Cash Crop Halophyte and Biodiversity Conservation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvM. Ajmal Khan,Benno Böer,Münir Öztürk,Thabit Zahran Al Abdessalaam,Miguel Clüsener-Godt,Bilquees Gul,Benno Boer,Munir Ozturk,Miguel Clusener-Godt

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Given the severe scarcity of water, ever increasing population and soil salinization out of the box solutions for the provision of food and clean energy is required to spare meager fresh water resources for conventional agriculture.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-05-26
Mått178 x 254 x 26 mm
Vikt889 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTasks for Vegetation Science
Antal sidor339
Upplaga2014
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789400774100

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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 inmarine 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.

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