Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula /

Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula / edited by Shahina A. Ghazanfar and Martin Fisher. - Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1998. - x, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. - Geobotany ; 25 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-328).

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 Introduction -- ShahinaA Ghazanfar &Martin Fisher -- Chapter 2 Climate -- Martin Fisher & David A Membery -- Chapter 3 Geology and Geomorphology -- Ingeborg Guba &KIen Glennie -- Chapter 4 Biogeography and Introduction to Vegetation -- Harald Kiirschner -- Chapter 5 Bryophytes and Lichens -- Harald Kiirschner & Shahina A Ghazanfar -- Chapter 6 Montane and Wadi Vegetation -- Ulrich Deil, with Abdul-Nasser al Gifri -- Chapter 7 Vegetation of the Plains -- ShahinaA Ghazanfar -- Chapter 8 Vegetation of the Sands -- James P Mandaville -- Chapter 9 Coastal and Sabkha Vegetation -- Ulrich Deil -- Chapter 10 Water Vegetation -- ShahinaA Ghazanfar -- Chapter 11 Plants of Economic Importance -- ShahinaA Ghazanfar -- Chapter 12 Diversity and Conservation -- Martin Fisher, ShahinaA Ghazanfar, -- Shaukat A Chaudhary, Philip J Seddon, E Fay Robertson, -- Samira Omar, Jameel A Abbas & Benno Bier -- References -- Index.

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Botany--Arabian Peninsula.
Plant communities--Arabian Peninsula.

QK353 / .V44 1998