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	Deserts and xeric shrublands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by a dry climate.
		Deserts and xeric shrublands occur in tropical, subtropical, and temperate climate regions.
		Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deserts_and_xeric_shrublands (326 words)

	Deserts and xeric shrublands: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome (biome: A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate) characterized by a dry climate.
		Deserts and xeric shrublands occur in tropical (tropical: the tropics are the geographic region of the earth centered on the equator and limited...
		Sechura desert (Sechura desert: the sechura desert is a desert ecoregion of coastal peru....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/deserts_and_xeric_shrublands (2690 words)

	Desert
		Deserts are also classified by their geographical location and dominant weather pattern as trade wind, midlatitude, rain shadow, coastal, monsoon, or polar deserts.
		The Rajasthan Desert of India and the Thar Desert of Pakistan are parts of a monsoon desert region west of the ranqe.
		Polar deserts are areas with annual precipitation less than 250 millimeters and a mean temperature during the warmest month of less than 10° C. Polar deserts on Earth cover nearly 5 million square kilometers and are mostly bedrock or gravel plains.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/de/desert.html (2744 words)

	Encyclopedia: Deserts and xeric shrublands
		The Carnarvon xeric shrublands or Carnarvon bioregion is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of Western Australia.
		The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border.
		The Sechura desert is a desert ecoregion of coastal Peru.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Deserts-and-xeric-shrublands (1835 words)

	Wikipedia: Desert
		Desert soil is often composed mostly of sand and sand dunes may be present.
		Cold deserts can be covered in snow, because such locations don't receive much precipitation, but what falls remains frozen as snow pack.
		In many parts of the world deserts are created by a rain shadow effect in which air masses lose much of their moisture as they move over a mountain range.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/d/de/desert.html (236 words)

	Gobi Desert
		Gobi (戈壁 pinyin ge1 bi4) is a desert in China north of the Himalayas.
		These deserts and the surrounding regions sustain many animals, including fl-tailed gazelles[?], marbled polecats[?], and greater plovers, and are occasionally visited by snow leopards, brown bears, and wolves.
		The desert features a number of drought-adapted shrubs such as gray sparrow's saltwort, gray sagebrush, and low grasses such as needle grass and bridlegrass.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/go/Gobi.html (263 words)

	Talk:Deserts and xeric shrublands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first problem is this biome encompass much more than simple desert.
		So putting any description of xeric shrublands in the desert article would not been quite right.
		This said I agree the information is likely to be redundant with desert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Deserts_and_xeric_shrublands (226 words)

	Grassland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tropical and subtropical grasslands are classified with tropical and subtropical savannas and shrublands as the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
		They are classified with temperate savannas and shrublands as the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
		Xeric grasslands or desert grasslands are sparse grasslands located in deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregions.
	www.vacilando.org /_cliextra/baghdadmuseumorg/includepage.php?title=Grassland&action=edit (345 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For example, a Temperate grassland or shrubland biome is known commonly as steppe in central Asia, savanna or veld in southern Africa, prairie in North America, pampa in South America and outback in Australia.
		Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (tropical and subtropical, semi-arid)
		Deserts and xeric shrublands (temperate to tropical, arid)
	www.daleboo.com /wiki/?title=Biome (428 words)

	Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compared to other regions this is often true, but upon closer examination, deserts often hold a wealth of life that usually remains hidden to preserve moisture.
		The desert is often composed of sand; it may also consist mainly of rocky terrain or salt flats.
		In many other parts of the world deserts are created by the rain shadow effect[?] in which air masses lose some of their water whenever they move over a mountain range.
	www.explainthat.info /de/desert.html (479 words)

	WWF Global 200 Ecoregions -- Central Asian Deserts (134)
		The Central Asian Deserts ecoregion is made up of a mosaic of clay, stone, salt, and sandy deserts (sandy deserts support the greatest amount of biodiversity).
		As strong winds whip through the hot deserts, sand is pushed up into dunes and ridges, some of which can be as high as 90 meters (300 feet).
		The rivers that flow through the Central Asian Deserts lead to the Aral Sea, which used to be the fourth-largest inland body of water in the world.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/g200/g134.html (494 words)

	Terrestrial ecoregion - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ecoregions are classified by biome type, which are the major global plant communities determined by rainfall and climate.
		Forests, grasslands (including savanna and shrubland), and deserts (including xeric shrublands) are distinguished by climate (tropical and subtropical vs. temperate and boreal climates) and, for forests, by whether the trees are predominantly conifers (Gymnosperms), or whether they are predominantly broadleaf (Angiosperms) and mixed (broadleaf and conifer).
		Terrestrial planets, for example, include not only the earth, but all planets which have surfaces composed mostly of rock, as distinct from planets without a solid surface.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Terrestrial_ecoregion (433 words)

	Sahara desert - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sahara is the world's largest desert and is located in northern Africa.
		The word Sahara itself comes from the Arabic word Sahhra which means desert.
		The most degradation is found in areas where there is water, such as aquifer oases or along the desert margins where some rain usually falls most years.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /sa/Sahara.html (197 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Deserts and xeric shrublands are most extensive assemblage of natural communities that share a in Northern Mexico, parts of the Greater and large majority of their species, ecological dynamics, Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, and l'acific and similar environmenital conditions, and whose coastal South America (Peru, Chile).
		The final Critical and Endangered ecoregions are overrepre- conservation status is used for integration with sented in the tropical dry broadleaf forests, and in biological distinctiveness to determine conservation deserts and xeric shrublands (Table 3-1).
		Deserts and Xeric Shrublands: Integration Matrix of Biological Distinctiveness and Conservation Status n 0 Biological Final Conservation Status Distinctiveness Citical Endangered Vulnerable Relatively Stable Relatively Intact Globally.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1995/09/01/000009265_3961219113255/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (12914 words)

	Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some places are deserts even though covered in snow.
		This remarkable fact comes about because such locations don't receive much precipitation, but what falls remains frozen as snow pack.
		See also: outback, oasis, desert survival, desert varnish, blowout, badlands
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/de/desert.html (675 words)

	Savanna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tropical and subtropical savannas are classified with tropical and subtropical savannas and shrublands as the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
		Mediterranean savannas are mid-latitude savannas in Mediterranean climate regions, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, part of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub biome.
		Montane savannas are high-altitude savannas, located in a few spots around the world's high mountain regions, part of the montane grasslands and shrublands biome.
	www.vacilando.org /_cliextra/baghdadmuseumorg/includepage.php?title=Savanna&action=history (428 words)

	xeric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because of Colorado Springs unique and unpredictable weather and micro-climates, a variety of native and xeric plants are available for a more natural and water-saving landscape.
		Xeric forests of chestnut oak, fl oak, scarlet oak, and hickories are restricted to a few low elevation side slopes with southwestern aspects.
		Deserts and xeric shrublands Details, Meaning Deserts and xeric shrublands A...
	www.xeriscaper.com /xeric (663 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Central Ranges xeric scrub (AA1302) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the sandplains, low myall and desert oak woodlands grow over spinifex, which is a tough, hardy, clumped grass.
		The relict plants are well distributed in other places and may have been brought into this ecoregion by migrating birds.
		A relict population of the desert cabbage palm, for example, is separated by more than 620 miles (1,000 km) from the closest cabbage palm population in the north.
	www.bonus.com /contour/National_geographic/http@@/www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1302.html (423 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Socotra Island xeric shrublands (AT1318)
		The coastal plains and low inland hills consist of open deciduous shrubland dominated by the endemic Croton socotranus and scattered trees of Euphorbia arbuscula, Dendrosicyos socotranus, and Ziziphus spina-christi.
		The most widespread vegetation type is a distinctive species-rich open shrubland found on the coastal foothills and the limestone escarpments.
		On the limestone plateau and upward to the middle slopes of the Hagghier Mountains there are areas of semi-deciduous thicket dominated by Rhus thyrsiflora, Buxus hildebrandtii, Carphalea obovata, and Croton spp.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at1318_full.html (2145 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Carnarvon xeric shrublands
		The ecoregion is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the west, by the Pilbara shrublands to the northeast, the Western Australian Mulga shrublands to the east, and by the Southwest Australia savanna to the south.
		The region is named for the coastal town of Carnarvon.
		Low samphire and saltbush shrublands cover the saline alluvial plains, snakewood scrublands cover the clay flats, Bowgada low woodland covers sandy ridges and plains, red sand dune fields are interspersed or overlain with tree to shrub steppe over hummock grasslands, and Acacia startii/A. bivenosa shrublands cover limestone outcrops in the north.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Carnarvon_xeric_shrublands (198 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Nullarbor Plains xeric shrublands (AA1306) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some cave animals have completely adapted to the dark environment and are blind, while others can live outside the caves as well.
		Nullarbor stretches from Western Australia into South Australia, and is bordered by the Great Australian Bight to the south and by the Great Victoria Desert to the north.
		No trees grow in the heart of the plateau, which earned its name from nullus arbor--Latin for "no tree." Instead, the dry plain is covered with bluebush and saltbush plants--small, hardy shrubs that are drought-resistant and salt-tolerant.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1306.html (335 words)

	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Deserts and Xeric Shrublands is a biome in which the climate is very either hot or cold
		Colorado's San Luis Valley is a typical cold xeric shrubland in the temperate zone at high elevation it does deviate from the general description being densely populated with small animals and pedators.
		With the cello there is such a magnificent blend of instruments that one feels right on the Silk Road.
	www.freeglossary.com /Deserts_and_Xeric_Shrublands (692 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Caspian lowland desert (PA1308) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The region is geologically very young, and for this reason doesn't have a tremendous diversity of plant and animal species.
		Caracals, also known as desert lynxes, are capable of jumping ten feet in the air to knock down passing birds!
		Jerboas and gerbils are among the smallest mammals that have what it takes to endure the dry climate of this ecoregion.
	www.bonus.com /contour/National_geographic/http@@/www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1308.html (372 words)

	Baja California desert - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		North of 30º north latitude, the Baja California desert transitions to the California chaparral and woodlands.
		Although rainfall is low, the Pacific Ocean provides some humidity and moderates the temperature compared to the Sonoran desert, which lies on the east slope of the Peninsular Ranges.
		The ecoregion is mostly covered by xeric shrubs, which create varying associations based on elevation and soil conditions.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Baja_California_desert (182 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Carnarvon xeric shrublands (AA1301) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Carnarvon Xeric Shrublands line the shores of the Indian Ocean in Australia from the Peron Peninsula up to the Cape Peninsula.
		Scientists use the old nests or middens of stick-nest rats to find out about the climate and types of plants that have grown in the region over the past 10,000 years.
		The Carnarvon Xeric Shrublands are home to a wide array of interesting animals.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1301.html (314 words)

	WWF - Black rhinoceros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
		When European settlers first began moving into the interior of east and southern Africa in the 19th century, the savannas teemed with wildlife.
		All animals of this species utilize communal dung heaps, sometimes scraping their feet therein and leaving a scent as they travel about.
	www.test.panda.org /about_wwf/what_we_do/species/our_solutions/endangered_species/rhinoceros/black_rhinoceros/index.cfm (632 words)

	xeric - OneLook Dictionary Search
		XERIC : Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
		Phrases that include xeric: aldabra island xeric scrub, carnarvon xeric shrublands, deserts and xeric shrublands, galÃ¡pagos islands xeric scrub, xeric shrubland, more...
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	www.onelook.com /?w=xeric&loc=wotd (184 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The major habitats of our region are deserts and Xeric Shrublands.
		Some native animals in the region are the desert and white tree frog, a rock wallaby, red kangaroo, marsupial moles, red antechinus, budgerigars, port lincoln parrots, emus, womas, red drago, and spotted snakes.
		Some other interesting facts that directly relate to rainfall in the Tanami Desert are that the average temp is 24-25 degrees Celcius and the highest temperatures are in Dec/Jan, due to the flip flop of seasons directly related to their positioning on Earth.
	www.students.dsu.edu /mulderw/Science/science.htm (495 words)

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