Sabkha Ecosystems

Contributing Authors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Sabkha ecosystem and halophyte plant communities in Saudi Arabia; A.A. Al-Jaloud, G. Hussain.- 2. An overview of the halophytes in Turkey; A. Guvensen et al.- 3. The bio-geography of the coastal vegetation of Abu Dhabi coast; B. Böer, P. Saengar.- 4. The sabkha vegetation of the United Arab Emirates; G. Brown.- 5. Desertification and sabkhat formation in the Aral Sea region; G.S. Kust, N.M. Novikova.- 6. Biodiversity of halophytic and sabkha ecosystems of Iran; H. Akhani.- 7. The micro-organisms of sabkhat in Qatar; I.A. Mahasneh et al.- 8. Soil salinization and floodplain ecosystems of south-west Turkmenistan; J.V. Kouzmina.- 9. Economic halophytes of Bahrain; J.A. Abbas.- 10. The main regularities of dust-salt transference in the desert zone of Kazakhstan; M.A. Orlova, S.M. Seifullina.- 11. Halophytes of Pakistan: characteristics, distribution and potential economic usages; M.A Khan, M. Qaiser.- 12. Floristic composition of a threatened Mediterranean sabkhat of Sinai; M.I. El-Bana.- 13. Salt lake area , northeastern part of Dukhan sabkha, Qatar; M. Al-Youssef et al.-14. Salinization processes and sabkhat formation in the valleys of the ancient deltas of the Murgab and Tedgen rivers in Central Asia; T.V. Dikareva.- 15. Properties and functioning of pediolithogenic complexes of soils, rocks and waters of the forest steppe of Western Siberia; T.N. Elizarova.- 16. Natural, geographical, halogeochemical and soil features of Western Siberia; T.N. Elizarova, B.M. Klenov.-17. Sabkhat regions of Iraq; S.A. Ghazanfar.- 18. The dynamics of halophyte ecosystems in the zone of impact of Kapchagai reservoir (Kazakhstan); R.P. Plisak.- 19. Landscape ecology and cartographical analysis of natural salt complexes in the south west Siberia Basins of Lake Chany and Lake Kulundinskoye; V.I. Bulatov et al.- 20. Salinity of irrigated lands of Uzbekistan: causes and present state; Yu.I. Shirokova, A.N. Morozov.-