Sabkha Ecosystems Volume V The Americas [Hardcover]

This book is a part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series which was designed to provide information on sabkha ecosystems of different regions and to add to the collective knowledge available about saline ecosystems. The comprehensive coverage assists the reader gaining a thorough understanding of sabkha geology, hydrology, geomorphology, zoology, botany, ecology and ecosystem functioning, as well as sabkha conservation, utilization and development. Volume I focused on The Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Countries, volume II was based on describing saline ecosystems of West and Central Asia , volume III referred to Africa and Southern Europe, while volume IV focused on Cash Crop Halophyte and Biodiversity Conservation. The present volume V focuses on Americans. 

1. Prospects of environmentally friendly farms for food security in hot and dry coastal areas based on seawater irrigation and waste products  An inspirational proposal.- 2. Halophytic life in Brazilian salt flats: Biodiversity, uses and threats.- 3. Physiological ecology of  psammophytic and halophytic plant species from coastal plains in northern South America.- 4. Morphophysiology and biochemistry of Prosopis strombulifera under salinity. Are halophytes tolerant to all salts?.- 5. A review of the North American halophyte Suaeda linearis (Ell.) Moq.- 6. Assessing seeds germination responses of Great Basin halophytes to various exogenous chemical treatments under saline conditions.- 7. Assessing seeds germination responses of Great Basin halophytes to various exogenous chemical treatments under saline conditions.- 8. THE IMPACT OF LAKE BONNEVILLE AND LAKE LAHONTAN ON THE HALOPHYTES OF THE GREAT BASIN.- 9. Halophytic flora of Argentina: A checklist and an analysis of its diversity.- 10. Coastal environments in the Bah?a Blanca Estuary, Argentina.- 11. Sarcocornia magellanica (Phil.) M. A. Alonso & M. B. Cresl“›