Sabkha Ecosystems: Volume I
Subtitle: The Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Countries (Tasks for Vegetation Science)
Contributors: H.-J. Barth (Editor); Benno Böer (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781402005046
Subjects: Applied ecology; Nature; Ecology; Science; Nature/Ecology; Arabian peninsula; General; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science / Ecology; Coastal Ecology; Alkali lands; Salt marsh ecology
First sentence: Although the term 'sabkha' appears often in early travelers' accounts of Arabia, this morphological feature attracted very little scientific attention until several decades ago when even then the only scientific interest that seems to have been aroused by this feature was that of some French scientists working in North Africa (Tricart 1954).