Sabkha Ecosystems

Sabkha ecosystem and halophyte plant communities in Saudi Arabia.- An overview of the halophytes in Turkey.- The biogeography of the coastal vegetation of the Abu Dhabi gulf Coast.- The sabkha vegetation of the United Arab Emirates.- Desertification and sabkhat formation in the Aral Sea region.- Biodiversity of halophytic and sabkha ecosystems in Iran.- The micro-organisms of sabkhat in Qatar.- Soil salinization and floodplain ecosystems of south-west Turkmenistan.- Economic halophytes of Bahrain.- The main regularities of dust-salt transference in the desert zone of Kazakhstan.- Halophytes of Pakistan: characteristics, distribution and potential economic usages.- Floristic composition of a threatened Mediterranean sabkhat of Sinai.- Salt lake area, northeastern part of Dukhan Sabkha, Qatar.- Salinization processes and sabkhat formation in the valleys and ancient deltas of the Murgab and Tedgen rivers in Central Asia.- Properties and functioning of pedolithogenic complexes of soils, rocks and waters of the forest steppe of Western Siberia.- Natural, geographical, halogeochemical and soil features of Western Siberia.- Sabkhat regions of Iraq.- The dynamics of halophyte ecosystems in the zone of impact of Kapchagai reservoir (Kazakhstan).- Landscape ecology and cartographical analysis of natural salt complexes in the south west Siberia Basins of Lake Chany and Lake Kulundinskoye.- Salinity of irrigated lands of Uzbekistan: causes and present state.