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Plant Responses to Hyperarid Desert Environments

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This chapter provides an overview of desert flora and plant communities. The vegetation-environment relationships were explained with two case studies, true desert in the Jungar Basin and extremely arid desert in the Anxi Extremely Arid Desert National Nature Reserve. There are 610 species in the desert of China, which can be classified into Central Asian element and Inner Asian element. The plant communities are abundant caused by diversified topography and soil features.

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  1. Department of Botany and Microbiology, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Monier M. Abd El-Ghani

  2. Department of Applied Ecology, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    Francisco Martín Huerta-Martínez

  3. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Liu Hongyan

  4. Department of Botany, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Rahmatullah Qureshi

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  1. Monier M. Abd El-Ghani
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Abd El-Ghani, M.M., Huerta-Martínez, F.M., Hongyan, L., Qureshi, R. (2017). Vegetation and Environment. In: Plant Responses to Hyperarid Desert Environments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59135-3_12

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