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The term ‘desert’ is imprecise: there is no general agreement as to what constitutes a desert and no precise definition of the term (Heathcote 1983). McGinnies et al. (1968) classified the world’s deserts, according to mean annual precipitation, as follows:
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Extremely arid (less than 60–100 mm);
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Arid (from 60–100 to 150–250 mm);
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Semi-arid (from 150–250 to 250–500 mm).
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Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1991). The Deserts of the World and Their Faunas. In: Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75337-4_2
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