Statistical Distribution of Urban Area Reveals a Converging Trend of Global Urban Land Expansion by Shengjie Hu, Zhenlei Yang, Sergio Andres Galindo Torres, Zipeng Wang, Haoying Han, Yoshihide Wada, Thomas Cherico Wanger, Ling Li

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Extreme Environment Streptomyces: Potential Sources for New Antibacterial and Anticancer Drug Leads? by Periyasamy Sivalingam, Kui Hong, John Pote, Kandasamy Prabakar

“…This review covers novel drug leads with antibacterial and cytotoxic activities isolated from deep-sea, desert, cryo, and volcanic environment Streptomyces from 2009 to 2019. …”
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L'arbuste Calotropis procera, un épisode de son histoire dans le bassin du lac Tchad by Christian Seignobos

“…Coming initially from the desert’s margins, Calotropis procera is now progressively moving down south, owing both to anthropic diffusion and to the deterioration of the environment. …”
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Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication by Élisabeth Plas

“…While the relationship to animals is still seen a territory of naturalness, this article shows, from Balzac’s short story Une Passion dans le désert’s example, that the relationships between men and animals are as social and political as those between men. …”
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Le coton à El Deir by Fleur Letellier-Willemin

“…The presence of cotton in el-Deir (Kharga oasis, Egyptian Western desert) is a recent archaeological discovery, mainly of funerary origin. …”
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Florida Foliage House Plant Care: Adenium swazicum by Richard J. Henny, Jianjun Chen

“… Adenium swazicum is a species of desert rose whose gray-green leaves appear folded and are velvety to touch. …”
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A relação entre trabalho, cooperação e solidariedade na formação da Cooperativa Colonizadora Multiativa Fernheim Ltda no Chaco Paraguaio by Luana Jamayna Gellert, Paula Cecilia Pérez Reyes, Valmor Schiochet

“…The article analyzes the case of the Fernheim Cooperative, located in the Paraguayan Chaco, which is desert-like area with a small population. This analysis demonstrates how an experiment strongly based on these three values: work, cooperation and solidarity, can last over time and change the reality of a region.…”
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Florida Foliage House Plant Care: Adenium swazicum by Richard J. Henny, Jianjun Chen

“… Adenium swazicum is a species of desert rose whose gray-green leaves appear folded and are velvety to touch. …”
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Crop water productivity assessment and planting structure optimization in typical arid irrigation district using dynamic Bayesian network by Yantao Ma, Jie Xue, Xinlong Feng, Jianping Zhao, Junhu Tang, Huaiwei Sun, Jingjing Chang, Longke Yan

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Self-organization in interface dynamics and urban development by Ehud Meron

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Where There's Fire, There's Smoke: Air Quality and Prescribed Burning in Florida by Martha C. Monroe, Adam C. Watts, Leda N. Kobziar

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A note on predator-prey dynamics in radiocarbon datasets by Marom, Nimrod, Wolkowski, Uri

“…We support our argument with examples from Pleistocene Beringia and the Holocene Judean Desert. …”
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Where There's Fire, There's Smoke: Air Quality and Prescribed Burning in Florida by Martha C. Monroe, Adam C. Watts, Leda N. Kobziar

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Washingtonia robusta: Mexican Fan Palm by Timothy K. Broschat

“…Mexican fan palms grow well in a wide range of soils in Florida, but do require good drainage. Though considered a desert palm, it is native to areas having permanent surface or subsurface water and thus is not as drought tolerant as might be expected. …”
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Le tourisme sexuel vu du Sahara marocain : une économie de razzia ? by Corinne Cauvin Verner

“…Trekking itineraries and camping trips on the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco are frequently the scene of sexual exchanges between Western female tourists and their guides, who are members of settled Saharan Bedouin tribes. …”
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Washingtonia robusta: Mexican Fan Palm by Timothy K. Broschat

“…Mexican fan palms grow well in a wide range of soils in Florida, but do require good drainage. Though considered a desert palm, it is native to areas having permanent surface or subsurface water and thus is not as drought tolerant as might be expected. …”
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Influence of Grassland Habitats on Acridoidea (Orthoptera) Species Diversity in Different Divisions of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps by Yuxian Liu, Shaoshan Wang, Yuheng He, Guanzheng Yuan, Xingyu Pu, Chao Zhou

“…The Acridoidea were most abundant in mountain meadows and temperate grasslands, with 42 and 43 species, respectively, while the species richness in temperate desert grasslands and temperate steppe desert grasslands was comparably high. …”
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Effect of Pulsed Electric Field on the Cations Removal from Salt-Affected Soils to Optimize Energy Use Efficiency in Reclamation by Ahmed Abou-Shady

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Volatile Organic Compounds and Carbonyls Pollution in Mexico City and an Urban Industrialized Area of Central Mexico by Elizabeth Vega, Omar Ramírez, Gabriela Sánchez-Reyna, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson, Diego López-Veneroni, Monica Jaimes-Palomera

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Divergent Responses of Grassland Productivity to Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations Across Ecoregions on the Mongolian Plateau by Cuicui Jiao, Xiaobo Yi, Ji Luo, Ying Wang, Yuanjie Deng, Xiao Guo

“…Autumn TCs, particularly the Pacific/North America and North Atlantic Oscillation, had a greater impact in arid regions like the Gobi Desert steppe and the Great Lakes Basin desert steppe ecoregions. …”
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