10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMIARIDITY»
Discover the use of
semiaridity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
semiaridity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The origin of landscapes: a synthesis of geomorphology
HUMID-TO-ARID SEMIARIDITY A moment's consideration of the humid-toarid
climate change problem is sufficient to establish that some of the transitional
physical parameters fall within the limits of the condition generally termed
semiaridity.
2
Report of the National Academy of Sciences
Also that lungs developed out of air bladders in water-breathing animals caught
in recurrent epochs of semiaridity. Such great environmental changes brought
about the necessity for change from a water habitat to seasonal dry ones, and ...
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 1920
3
Land of the Underground Rain: Irrigation on the Texas High ...
It isthis undefinable aspect of semiaridity that gives the Plains their
distinctiveness [italics mine].”22 Settlers were confronted with this “undefinable
aspect of semiaridity” when asevere drouth strucktheGreat Plainsin 1886 and
extended through ...
4
Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe : A Long-Term Perspective: ...
Daniel G. Milchunas William K. Lauenroth Ingrid C. Burke James K. Detling
Evolutionary History of Grazing and Semiaridity Grazing by large native
ungulates and semiaridity are the two main forces that have had a large influence
in shaping ...
Department of Rangeland Ecosystem Science Colorado State University W. K. Lauenroth Professor, I. C. Burke Department of Forest Sciences Colorado State University, 2008
5
Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier
In two places arms of prairie vegetation thrust well beyond the Line of Semiaridity
; one in North Dakota where cold weather kept the earth moist by retarding
surface evaporation, the other along the Platte River in central Nebraska. West of
the ...
Ray Allen Billington, Martin Ridge, 2001
Also that lungs developed out of air-bladders in water-breathing animals caught
in recurrent epochs of semiaridity. Such great environmental changes brought
about the necessity for change from a water habitat to seasonal dry ones, and ...
7
Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in ...
... and 'Watershed Consciousness,' " pp. 2, 5. 14. Although Webb argued that his
book was about the Great Plains, and he offered semiaridity, treelessness, and
lack of topographical relief as the defining characteristics of the Plains, ...
Dale D. Goble, Paul W Hirt, 2012
8
Rivers of the World: A Social, Geographical, and ...
Despite its more nearly equatorial location, the island shares with its larger
neighbor a tendency to semiaridity. The dense, rural population (the country has
more people than Australia) depends heavily on the efficient utilization of scarce
water ...
9
On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee ...
... marks the ninety-eighth meridian that bisects Kansas and Oklahoma as a line
marking semiaridity: to the west annual rainfall is less than twenty inches,
defining a region that before Anglo settlement was devoted to grazing and
hunting.
Sanora Babb, Douglas Wixson, 2009
10
African Ecology and Human Evolution
The familiar polemic as to whether alluviation or vertical incision indicates greater
aridity or greater humidity, or whether alluviation upstream and downcutting
downstream are representative of semiaridity as opposed to aridity, or vice versa,
...
Francis Clark Howell, François Bourlière, 1963
