Arid and Semi-Arid
Farmlands Feature Greater Woody Cover than Savannas in Semi-Arid West Africa
... ference is reversed, with median woody cover being lower in farmlands than in savannas. Unlike the rainfall driven gradient of woody cover found in savannas, the woody cover in farmlands is spa- tially homogeneous ...
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Comparative analysis of diversity and utilization of edible plants in arid and semi-arid areas in Benin
... the arid area while farmers in the semi-arid area still relied on slash- and-burn cultivation, crop rotation, burning of crop resi- due and mulches, and ...the semi-arid area left ...
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Natural Regeneration of Tree in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones in West Africa
... In arid and semi-arid West Africa, the regression of woodlands due to uncontrolled exploitation by people (Khresat et al., 1998) and climatic (Ouedraogo et al., 2006; Diallo et al., 2011) is widely ...
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Socio-economic effect on socially-deprived communities of developing drinking water quality problems in arid and semi- arid area of central Rajasthan
... Abstract Rajasthan is well known for its Great Thar desert. Central Rajasthan has an arid to semi-arid environment. The area faces either scarcity of water or poor quality of drinking water. In some ...
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Land use/land cover change and extreme climatic events in the arid and semi-arid ecoregions of Mexico
... Land use/land cover change (LULCC) reflects a complex interplay between socio-economic and environmental factors (Bajocco et al., 2012), of- ten entailing land degradation processes due to unsustainable land use (Romm, ...
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Simulation of the catchments hydrological processes in arid, semi-arid and semi-humid areas
... Arid and semi-arid areas usually have a short term of floods and base flows are very low. Sometimes due to the characteristics of the catchment, several maximums are observed in flood hydrograph, ...
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Water Management in Arid and Semi Arid Regions:Interdisciplinary Perspectives
... The ARID Cluster is supported by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme and is contributing to the implementation of the Key Action "Sustainable Management and Quality of Water" within ...
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The Role of Social Networks as Survival Strategies in Agro-Pastoral Communities in Arid And Semi-Arid Lands in Tanzania
... and Semi-arid areas in central Tanzania are risky environments for those communities whose livelihood depends on natural ...in semi-arid Tanzania are socially bound and help each other in ...
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Statistical model of daily flow in arid and semi arid regions
... of arid regions (Aksoy and Bayazit, ...in arid and semi-arid areas and there are significant differences from humid ...of arid and semi-arid regions as truncated, spell ...
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Indigenous Knowledge and Techniques of Runoff Harvesting (Bandsar and Khooshab) in Arid and Semi Arid Regions of Iran
... the arid and semi-arid condition between 25 and 40 de- grees of northern ...in arid and semi-arid regions of the country, where rainfall events are very ...severe arid ...
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Eco geomorphology of banded vegetation patterns in arid and semi arid regions
... terns can be divided in two main groups. The first group in- cludes models developed to simulate water redistribution for a fixed spatial vegetation pattern (Puigdef´abregas et al., 1999; Ludwig at al., 1999; Boer and ...
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The Estimation of Soil Organic Matter Variation in Arid and Semi Arid Lands Using Remote Sensing Data
... This study aims to use simple method of results from satellite data and deter- mine the relationship between measured SOM in field and obtained data using remote sensing techniques, find correlation coefficients which ...
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A comparative analysis of rural household food security in the high rainfall zone of Murang’a, semi – arid lands of Kitui and arid lands of Isiolo in Kenya
... (FEWS NET, 2012) reported over 10 million people to suffer from chronic food insecurity and poor nutrition in 2012 which is about one third of the 39 million people in Kenya reported to suffer from chronic food and ...
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Diversity of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated to Acacia seyal (Delile) in semi-arid zone of Senegal
... Compared to AMF soil diversity found in the rhizosphere of other arid and semi-arid saline area, the A. seyal rhizosphere diversity observed in the three harvesting sites seems to be underestimated. ...
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Water harvesting technologies in semi-arid and arid areas
... Tabia: Tabia sand ditch is a technique of water harvesting made in the gentle slope and bottom hill areas. It is usually prepared either in the bottom of foothills, inside or nearby to across the riverbeds at the foot ...
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Trend analysis and detection of precipitation fluctuations in arid and semi-arid regions
... Mann-Kendall non-parametric test and Sen’s method had been used to determine positive or negative trends; also Pettitt test, Standard normal homogeneity test, Buishand range test, Von [r] ...
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What can parents do? parents' aspirations and choices of early childhood education and care in Kenya: a constructivist grounded theory
... LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ASAL Arid and Semi-Arid Lands DICECEs District centres educational for early childhood education ECD Early childhood development ECEC Early childhood education and [r] ...
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Performance of canola (Brassica napus l.) genotypes under drought stress
... use, moderate to severe intermittent or terminal drought is a common occurrence, and dry most crops cannot be grown without supplemental irrigation [2]. Water deficits in plants may lead to physiological disorders, such ...
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Kushawaha
... VDD has been attested to be a global nutritional public health issue and an estimated one billion have been projected as affected across all age-groups as well as ethnicities in the year 2007. This study also highlighted ...
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Habitat Plants And Foraging Preferences In Termites Of The Genus Anacanthotermes
... and semi-arid zones) 72 species are identified, where 74 species of plants are identified in areas adjacent to synanthropic territories (agrocenoses, residential ...
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