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Plant Diversity and Ecology in the Chihuahuan Desert
Environmental and specific diversity in the Chihuahuan desert in general, and in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in particular, has long been recognized as outstanding. This book provides a global ecological overview, together with in-depth studies of specific processes. The Chihuahuan desert is the warmest in North America, and has a complex geologic, climatic and biogeographical history, which affects today’s distribution of vegetation and plants and generates complex phylogeographic patterns. The high number of endemic species reflects this complex set of traits. The modern distribution of environments, including aquatic and subaquatic systems, riparian environments, gypsum dunes and gypsum-...
Desert Plants
Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert plants encompassing various aspects of desert plant biology. In this book, I have tried to present fu...
Salud, sociedad y transdisciplinariedad
Agradecimientos .............................................................................................. I Presentación ................................................................................................. III Bernarda Téllez Alanís y Carlos José Aragón Carrillo PARTE I 1. Transdisciplinarity - a hope for humanity .................................................. 2 Basarab Nicolescu 2. Managing and sustaining transdisciplinary research teams ..................... 22 Sarah Gehlert 3. Transdisciplina en la UAEM. El programa de calidad de vida académica ...... 38 Elisa Lugo y Susana Arriola 4. Los procesos transculturales desde la transdisciplinariedad y la complejidad ...
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