Evolutionary Genomics Provides Insights Into Endangerment and Conservation of a Wild Apple Tree Species, Malus sieversii by Jian Zhang, Fang‐Yuan Zhao, Hong‐Xiang Zhang

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SSR-based evaluation of genetic diversity in populations of Agriophyllum squarrosum L. and Agriophyllum minus Fisch. & Mey. collected in South-East Kazakhstan by Y. Genievskaya, D. Karelova, S. Abugalieva, P. Zhao, G. Chen, Y. Turuspekov

“…The development of informative polymorphic DNA markers for poorly studied genera is an important step in population analyses of living organisms, including those that play very important ecological roles in harsh environments, such as desert and semi-desert area. Examples of those poorly studied desert species are Agriophyllum squarrosum L. and Agriophyllum minus Fisch. …”
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Simulating responses of riparian ecosystem network complexity to flow regime shifts in arid regions by Mengmeng Zhang, Chengyi Zhao, Jianting Zhu, Wangya Han, Wenqi Jiang

“…This study applied a modified community-wide population model, integrated with network theory, to simulate the responses of the riparian ecosystem to potential future flow regimes in a desert oasis in northwestern China. Results indicate that the riparian ecosystem network in the desert oasis is inherently unstable under the Heihe River’s current hydrological conditions, characterized by considerable intra-annual and inter-annual runoff variability, as even minor changes in flow regimes could alter the network. …”
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Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption by Wenfeng Wang, Xi Chen, Yifan Zhang, Jianjun Yu, Tianyi Ma, Zhihan Lv, Jing Zhang, Fanyu Zeng, Hui Zou

“…Meanwhile, nanodeserts allow a stable temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in deserts by largely reducing the CO2 release above the deserts surface and highlighting the abiotic CO2 fixation beneath deserts. …”
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ReLTER: An R interface for environmental observation in long term ecological research by Alessandro Oggioni, Micha Silver, Paolo Tagliolato, Arnon Karnieli

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Variations in Water Stress and Its Driving Factors in the Yellow River Basin by Haodong Lyu, Jianmin Qiao, Gonghuan Fang, Wenting Liang, Zidong Tang, Furong Lv, Qin Zhang, Zewei Qiu, Gengning Huang

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Sahara en mouvement by Dominique Casajus

“…What Fernand Braudel once said of the Mediterranean sea can be said of the Sahara desert: drawing up boundaries is a difficult task. …”
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Divergent response of grassland aboveground net primary productivity and precipitation utilization efficiency to altered precipitation patterns by process-based model by Chen Cheng, Lu Wu, Lu Wu, Hongyan Liu, Boyi Liang, Xinrong Zhu, Feiyun Yang

“…Historical weather data from 1968 to 2017 and observational data from three types of steppes (meadow, typical, and desert steppe) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from 2004 to 2010 were collected to determine key crop variety parameters for the APSIM model. …”
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Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Wind Blown Sand Morphology under Complex Wind-Flow Field by Xamxinur Abdikerem, Lei Wang, Afang Jin, Mamtimin Geni

“…The results show that under the uniform airflow field, the straight parallel ripple formed and the flared ripple formed in the middle region of the crossroad, and the wavelength of the ripples on the desert highway is bigger than that of the ripples around the road when the road height is higher than that of the sand surface height. …”
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Local and Regional Scale Evaluation of the Integrated Urban Land Model by Comparing with the Common Land Model by Chunlei Meng, Wenlong Zhang

“…In arid areas, especially deserts, the inner layer soil evaporation could not be neglected.…”
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Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Interaction between Carbon Nanotubes and Water Molecules during Water Desalination Process by Loay A. Elalfy, Walid M. I. Hassan, Wael N. Akl

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Climate Change-Induced Decline in Succulent <i>Euphorbia</i> in Namibia’s Arid Regions by J. J. Marion Meyer, Marie M. Potgieter, Nicole L. Meyer, Anika C. Meyer

“…The global rise in temperatures due to climate change has made it difficult even for specialised desert-adapted plant species to survive on sandy desert soils. …”
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Estimation of daily groundwater evapotranspiration from diurnal variations of lysimeter experiments data in an arid zone by Peng Yao, Fengzhi Shi, Yuehui Wang, Ningze Dai, Chengyi Zhao

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Variations in rumen microbiota and host genome impacted feed efficiency in goat breeds by Alaa Emara Rabee, Ibrahim Abou-souliman, Ahmed I. Yousif, Mebarek Lamara, Mohamed A. El-Sherbieny, Eman Ali Elwakeel, Ahmed M. Sallam

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Role of the Perceived Social Responsibility of the Company and the Psychological Mechanisms to Achieve the Employees' Creative Behavior (Case Study: Electro Kavir Company of Yazd) by Marziyeh Dehghanizadeh, Fatemeh Keshavarzi Hedesh

“…The statistical population of this research includes all the employees of Electro Desert Company in Yazd city, numbering 380 people, from which a sample size of 191 people was determined by using Cochran's formula. …”
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The Larva of Apomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by George C. Theeler, Jeanette Wheeler

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Dubai transient city. Anatomy of a post-urban phenomenon by Tiziano Aglieri Rinella

“…Nowadays, the glittering lights of this city’s skyline quickly sprouted from the desert, advertise the daring image of a city in which reality and fiction are often merged. …”
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The Breaking of the Square: Late Victorian Representations of Anglo-Sudanese Warfare by Luisa Villa

“…Indeed, with its austere desert landscape, its immemorial river and its warlike populations, the Sudan was marketed to the general public as the site for the perfect martial adventure. …”
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Introducing a Chaotic Component in the Control System of Soil Respiration by Peng An, Wen-Feng Wang, Xi Chen, Jing Qian, Yunzhu Pan

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Seasonal Variations of the Urban Thermal Environment Effect in a Tropical Coastal City by Yao Yuan, Chen Xi, Qian Jing, Ndayisaba Felix

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