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Title Climate change adaptation : ecology, mitigation, and management / editor, Adam L. Jenkins.

Publication Info. New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction
Climate change and its causes, effects, and prediction series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Contents ""CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: ECOLOGY, MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT ""; ""CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: ECOLOGY, MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE ""; ""CLIMATE AND DISTRIBUTION OF VEGETATION IN EGYPT'S DESERTS ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""GEOMORPHOLOGY OF EGYPT""; ""CLIMATE OF EGYPT ""; ""A. In the Past ""; ""B. At Present ""; ""CLIMATE � SOIL � VEGETATION RELATIONSHIPS""; ""VEGETATION OF EGYPT'S DESERTS ""; ""A. Vegetation Forms ""; ""1. Accidental Vegetation � Form ""; ""2. Ephemeral Vegetation Form ""; ""3. Perennial Vegetation Form ""
""B. Vegetation Types """"I. Mangrove Vegetation ""; ""II. Reed Swamp Vegetation ""; ""III. Salt Marsh Vegetation ""; ""1-3. Halocnemum Strobilaceum, Arthrocnemum Macrostachyum and Salicornia Fruticosa Community Types""; ""4. Halopeplis Perfoliata Community Type ""; ""5. Inula Crithmoides Community Type ""; ""6-8. Suaeda Fruticosa, S. Pruinosa and S. Vermiculata Community Types ""; ""9. Limonium Pruinosum Community Type ""; ""10. Limonium Axillare Community Type ""; ""11. Zygophyllum Album Community Type ""; ""12. Salsola Tetrandra Community Type ""
""13. Halimione Portulacoides Community Type """"14. Limoniastrum Monopetalum Community Type ""; ""15. Cressa Cretica Community Type ""; ""16. Frankenia Revoluta Community Type ""; ""17-18. Aeluropus Spp. Community Types ""; ""19. Sporobolus Spicatus Community Type ""; ""20. Sporobolus Virginicus Community Type ""; ""21. Juncus Rigidus Community Type ""; ""22. Juncus Acutus Community Type ""; ""23-24. Nitraria Retusa and Suaeda Monoica Community Types ""; ""25-26.Tamarix Mannifera and T. Passerinoides Community Types ""; ""V. Sand Dune Vegetation ""; ""VI. Vegetation of the Rocky Ridges ""
""VII. Vegetation of the Desert Wadis """"VIII. Vegetation of The Montane Country ""; ""A. Red Sea and Sinai Mountains ""; ""9. Species of the Nakkat Habitat ""; ""B. Gebel Uwienat (Western Desert) ""; ""ZONATION OF VEGETATION IN EGYPT�S DESERTS ""; ""CONCLUDING REMARKS ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS OF RUSSIA ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""MATERIALS AND METHODS ""; ""RESULTS ""; ""Mid-Annual Temperature ""; ""Monthly Average Temperature ""; ""Atmospheric Precipitation ""; ""Sunshine Duration ""; ""CONCLUSIONS ""; ""REFERENCES ""
""TOWARDS ADAPTATION MEASURES IN PROTECTING MANGROVES FROM CLIMATE CHANGE """"ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""SUSTAINABILITY OF MANGROVE FORESTS ""; ""THE RISE AND FALL OF MANGROVES WITH SEA LEVEL CHANGES ""; ""THE RESPONSE OF MANGROVE FORESTS TO OTHER PREDICTED CLIMATE CHANGES ""; ""Atmospheric CO2 Concentration ""; ""Temperature ""; ""Precipitation ""; ""Storms ""; ""Ocean Acidification ""; ""THE STATUS OF MANGROVES ""; ""ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES ""; ""THE WAY FORWARD ""; ""THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES ""; ""CONCLUSIONS ""; ""REFERENCES ""
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Subject Climate change mitigation.
Climate change mitigation.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Jenkins, Adam.
Other Form: Print version: Climate change adaptation. New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2011 9781611227642 (DLC) 2010041353 (OCoLC)670247340
ISBN 9781612094779 (electronic book)
1612094775 (electronic book)
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