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The Estimation of Soil Organic Matter Variation in Arid and Semi Arid Lands Using Remote Sensing Data
... Soil Samples from 22 sites located in two zones (semi-arid and arid zones) were carefully collected in plastic bags and appropriately labeled. The soil samples were collected from depth 30 cm. The ...
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Water harvesting technologies in semi-arid and arid areas
... different semi-arid and arid areas; to show features of water harvesting technology use and storage mechanisms; and to overview major pros and cons of water ...
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Simulation of the catchments hydrological processes in arid, semi-arid and semi-humid areas
... coefficients were 0.72 and 0.70, respectively, which indicated the acceptability of the simulated river flow discharge of Haraz catchment at this station. Simulated the runoff amount in the semi-arid ...
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Land use/land cover change and extreme climatic events in the arid and semi-arid ecoregions of Mexico
... a change in land cover of 10% in this ecoregion for the period 2002-2011 (Fig. 3). Some authors (e.g., Pequeño-Ledezma, 2013) and governmental reports (SAGARPA, 2009) described an intensive use of the region, ...
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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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Natural Regeneration of Tree in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones in West Africa
... The comparison of aerial photographs from 1975 with satellite images of high resolution of 2005 for the same areas in Niger shows a sharp increase in tree densities in fields (15 to 20 times more trees in 2005 than ...
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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
... Groundwater occurs almost everywhere beneath the Earth surface. It is not in a single widespread aquifer, but in thousands of local aquifer systems and compartments that have similar characters. Knowledge of the ...
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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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The Role of Social Networks as Survival Strategies in Agro-Pastoral Communities in Arid And Semi-Arid Lands in Tanzania
... The importance of traditional social networks in sustaining agro-pastoral livelihood in semi-arid Tanzania has long been recognized. These networks are particularly essential where agro-pastoral communities ...
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Statistical model of daily flow in arid and semi arid regions
... of arid and semi-arid ...in arid and semi-arid regions is an important, critical and crucial task in many cases, however daily discharge data is usually limited in such ...
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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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Diversity of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated to Acacia seyal (Delile) in semi-arid zone of Senegal
... the arid and saline plant growth conditions (Wubet et ...the arid and semi-arid regions live in symbiotic partnerships with different AMF (Brundrett, 1991; Juniper and Abott, 1993; Diop et ...
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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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Eco geomorphology of banded vegetation patterns in arid and semi arid regions
... The objective of this study is to investigate the interactions between dynamic vegetation patterns and geomorphology in banded vegetation systems, using a new coupled dynamic vegetation-landform evolution model. In ...
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Water Management in Arid and Semi Arid Regions:Interdisciplinary Perspectives
... of arid and semi-arid regions are relatively stable, the vulnerability of a given region to water scarcity results from the impact of changes in water availability not to be compensated by ...in ...
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On non equilibrium and nomadism : knowledge, diversity and global modernity in Drylands (and beyond…)
... in semi-arid and arid areas, however, and with the associated increase in sales of milk and other pastoral products, urban dairying activities by pastoralist women become increasingly common (Waters ...
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Large reservoirs: are they the last Oasis for the survival of cities in India?
... in semi arid and arid areas experience high variability in rainfall conditions, making the supplies from local water bodies such as tanks, and ponds and wells ...a semi arid or ...
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PRELIMINARY ASSESSESMENT ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATION OF CAMEL TUBERCULOSIS IN PASTORAL AREA OF ETHIOPIA
... harshly semi-arid and arid areas of the world, is extremely important for livelihood of pastoral communities through provision of milk, meat and draft power for transportation of ...
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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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Floristic Diversity of Atriplexaies in Western Algeria
... (Atriplex spp.) in arid land rehabilitation in the Osmond C.B., Bjorkman O., et Anderson D.J., 1980 – physiological process in plant ecology. Toward a semi-arid lands. Ed. Academic press. INC, New ...
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