Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Linking Semiarid-Mountain Agriculture to Environmental Benefits and Adverse Impact
(V.H. Durán Zuazo, C.R. Rodríguez Pleguezuelo, J.R. Francia Martínez, S. Cuadros Tavira and I.F. García Tejero, IFAPA Centro “Las Torres-Tomejil”, Carretera Sevilla-Cazalla, Alcalá del Río, Sevilla, Spain, and others)
Chapter 2
Thermal Imaging to Assess the Plant-Water Status in Woody Crops under Arid and Semi-Arid Conditions
(Iván Francisco García-Tejero, Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo and José Luis Muriel-Fernández, Centro IFAPA “Las Torres – Tomejil. Ctra. Alcalá del Río, Sevilla, Spain)
Chapter 3
Geomorphodiversity of the Ejina Basin in Inner Mongolia, Central Asia: Implications for Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironmental Change
(Bingqi Zhu, Jingjie Yu, Patrick Rioual, Yan Gao, Yichi Zhang, Leilei Min, Chaoyang Du, Heigang Xiong, Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and others)
Chapter 4
New Utilization/Conservation Dilemmas in the Karoo, South Africa: Potential Economic, Demographic and Entrepreneurial Consequences
(D. F. Toerien, Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)
Chapter 5
Three Decades of Ecological Monitoring in Algerian Arid Rangelands
(Aziz Hirche, Mostefa Salamani, Boughani Abdelmadjid, Dalila Nedjraoui, Ratiba Hourizi, Youcef Oukil, Halima Slimani, Zina Khedache, Fahima Belala, Tahar Ait Hamouda, Nacer Adi, and Mohamed Grandi, Laboratory of Vegetal Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Sciences and Technology, Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algiers, Algeria, and others)
Index
