Sabkha Ecosystems

InhaltsangabePreface; Turki Bin Nasser Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.- Foreword; Walter Erdelen.- 1. Sabkha Regions of Tropical East Africa; Shahina A. Ghazanfar and Henk J. Beentje.- 2. A Review of Fauna & Flora Associated with Coastal & Inland Saline Flats from Namibia - With Special Reference to the Etosha Pan; Peter L. Cunningham and Willem Jankowitz.- 3. Introducing the Namib Desert Playas; Frank Eckardt and N. Drake.- 4. Quantitative Eolian Transport of Evaporite Salts from the Makgadikgadi Depression (Ntwetwe and Sua Pans) in Northeastern Botswana: Implications for Regional Ground-Water Quality; Warren W. Wood, Frank Eckardt, Thomas F. Kraemer and Ken Eng.- 5. Palaeo-Ecological Aspects of Farafra Oasis (Egypt) during the Mid-Neolithic Period (7130-6190 Bp): A Multivariate Analysis; A. Gamal-El-Din Fahmy and M.M. Abd El-Ghani.- 6. Halophytic Plant Diversity of the Sudanese Red Sea Salt Marsh; Oyma Karrar Osman.- 7. A General Assessment of Marine Turtle Nesting Activity on the Libyan Saline Coast; Daw A Haddoud and Hisham M. El Gomati.- 8. Current Challenges and Future Opportunities for a Sustainable Utilization of Halophytes; Ahmed Debez, Bernhard Huchzermeyer, Chedly Abdelly and Hans-Werner Koyro.- 9. The Salt Marsh (Sabkha) in the Western Part of Libya; M.O. El-Magsodi and Daw A. Haddoud.- 10. Biomass Production and Nutrient Uptake by Plant Associations in Ungrazed Areas Edging a Sabkha; Chedly Abdelly, A. Debez, K. Ben Hamed, Abderrazak Smaoui and Claude Grignon.- 11. Potential Role of Sabkhas in Egypt; An Overview; Hassan M. El Shaer.- 12. Halophyte Plant Diversity, Coastal Habitat Types and their Conservation Status in Cyprus; Münir Oztürk, Salih Gucel, Aykut Guvensen, Costas Kadis and Constantinos Kounnamas.- 13. Salt-Affected Soils and their Native Vegetation in Hungary; Tibor Tóth.- 14. Halophytes in the Republic of Macedonia; S. Mitrev, L. Mihajlov, F. Trajkova, B. Kovacevic and V. Zlatkovski.- 15. Low-Cost Mapping of Sabkha-Ecosystems using Satellite Imagery: An Example from SE Qatar; Jörg Beineke and Andreas Kagermeier.- Index.

Contains important information about the type of plants that are distributed in highly saline areasProvides information about ecology and particularly edaphology of the sabkha systemUnique in covering a broad regional areaUnique in having been written by selected experts of the specific scientific fieldsUp-to-date with ongoing developmentsIncludes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras