Hot Deserts and Arid Shrublands 
Subtitle: Hot Deserts and Arid Shrublands (Ecosystems of the World)
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: March 1, 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780444422965
First sentence: The Middle Eastern deserts dealt with in the present chapter are the arid and semi-arid parts of Sinai, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and northern Arabia2 (see Fig. 1.1) where the annual amount of rainfall does not exceed 350 mm and vegetation is sparse and devoid of arboreal dominants.