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Deserts & Xeric Shrublands

Deserts and xeric shrublands around the world vary significantly in their landscapes and vegetation. The Arabian Peninsula, dominated by extensive sand dunes, is home to plants like acacia and oleander.

Deserts & Xeric Shrublands

Deserts & Xeric Shrublands

Arabian

Arabian Peninsula


Covered almost entirely by sand; has some of the most extensive stretches of sand dunes in the world. Plants: acacia, oleander, saltbush.


Australian (Great Sandy, Victoria, Simpson, Gibson, and Sturt)

Australia


Great Sandy, Victoria, and Simpson are sandy; Gibson and Sturt are stony. Plants: acacia, casuarina tree, eucalyptus, saltbush, spinifex grass.


Chihuahuan

North Central Mexico and Southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)


High plateau covered by stony areas and sandy soil. Many mountains and mesas. Plants: cacti, chihuahuan flax, creosote bush, lechuguilla, mesquite, mexican gold poppy.


Kalahari

Southwestern Africa


Covered by sand dunes and gravel plains. Plants: acacia, aloe.


Mojave

Southwestern United States (Arizona, California, Nevada)


Covered by sandy soil, gravelly pavement, and salt flats. Plants: creosote bush, desert sand verbena, joshua tree, mesquite.


Monte

Argentina


Covered by sand and soil. Plants: cardon cactus, creosote bush, paloverde.


Sahara

Northern Africa


Covered by mountains, rocky areas, gravel plains, salt flats, huge areas of dunes. Areas in the central sometimes get no rain for years at a time. Plants: acacia, grasses, tamarisks.


Sonoran

Southwestern United States (Arizona, California) and parts of Mexico (Baja Peninsula, Sonora).


Covered by sand, soil, and gravelly pavement. Gets more rain than any other North American desert. Plants: agave, coulter's globemallow, creosote bush, desert mariposa lily, mesquite, ocotillo, paloverde, saguaro.


Thar

India and Pakistan


Majority of desert covered by sand dunes; rest covered by gravel plains. Plants: acacia, euphorbias, grasses, shrubs.



ECOREGIONS

Tehuacán Valley matorral
Sechura desert
San Lucan xeric scrub
Paraguaná xeric scrub
Motagua Valley thornscrub
Malpelo Island xeric scrub
La Costa xeric shrublands
Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
Cuban cactus scrub
Caribbean shrublands
Atacama desert
West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
West Sahara desert
Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
Taklimakan desert
South Sahara desert
South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
South Arabian plains and plateau desert
Saharan Atlantic coastal desert
Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
Red Sea coastal desert
Red Sea-Arabian Desert shrublands
Qaidam Basin semi-desert
Paropamisus xeric woodlands
North Saharan Xeric Steppe and Woodland
North Arabian highland shrublands
North Arabian desert
Mesopotamian shrub desert
Kopet Dag semi-desert
Kazakh semi-desert
Junggar Basin semi-desert
Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe
Eastern Gobi desert steppe
East Sahara Desert
East Saharan montane xeric woodlands
East Arabian fog shrublands and sand desert

part of Oman

Central Persian desert basins
Central Asian southern desert
Central Asian riparian woodlands
Central Asian northern desert
Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
Caspian lowland desert
Baluchistan xeric woodlands
Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
Arabian desert

Arabian stone/mixed desert

Arabian sand desert

Arabian-Persian Gulf coastal plain desert
Afghan Mountains semi-desert
Alashan Plateau semi-desert
Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
Tamaulipan matorral
Tamaulipan mezquital
Sonoran desert
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
Mojave desert
Meseta Central matorral
Gulf of California xeric scrub
Great Basin shrub steppe
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Chihuahuan desert
Central Mexican matorral
Baja California desert
Araya and Paria xeric scrub
INDO-MALAYAN
Thar desert
Deccan thorn scrub forests
Aravalli west thorn scrub forests
St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks
Southwest Arabian highland xeric scrub
Southwest Arabian Escarpment shrublands and woodlands
Southwest Arabian coastal xeric shrublands
Somali montane xeric woodlands
Socotra Island xeric shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands
Namib Desert
Namaqualand-Richtersveld steppe
Karoo

Succulent Karoo xeric shrublands

Nama Karoo shrublands

Gariep Karoo

Madagascar succulent woodlands
Madagascar spiny thickets
Kaokoveld desert
Kalahari xeric savanna
Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub
Hobyo grasslands and shrublands
Eritrean coastal desert
Djibouti xeric shrublands
Aldabra Island xeric scrub

Aldabra is the world's largest raised coral atoll

Western Australian Mulga shrublands

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Tirari-Sturt stony desert
Pilbara shrublands
Nullarbor Plains xeric shrublands
Great Victoria desert
Simpson desert
Great Sandy-Tanami desert

Tanami Desert

Carnarvon xeric shrublands
Central Ranges xeric scrub
Gibson desert

ESSENTIAL

ECOREGIONS ESSENTIAL

SAHARA

http://atlas-sahara.org/index.html

http://atlas-sahara.org/flore/_flore/_flore.html?cat=index

SOUTH SAHARA DESERT

WEST SAHARAN MONTANE XERIC WOODLANDS

WEST SAHARA DESERT

NORTH SAHARAN XERRIC STEPPE AND WOODLAND

NORTH SAHARAN XERIC STEPPE AND WOODLAND

EAST SAHARA DESERT

PAKISTAN

SOUTH IRAN NUBO-SINDIAN DESERT AND SEMI-DESERT

to check:

Hingol National Park

SMAL PLANTS

Cleome amblyocarpa

Heliotropium

Cornulaca arabica

Neurada

Anastatica

Stipagrostis

Lasiurus scindicus

Panicum turgidum

Scirpus

Rhanterium

Zilla

Tetraena

Suaeda

Salsola

Seetzenia africana

Cassia italica

Suaeda aegyptiaca

Hammada salicornica

Acacia pachyceras

Ziziphus nummularia

Haloxylon

Avicennia marina

REGISTAN-NORTH PAKISTAN SANDY DESERT

to check

the eco-region covers the large semi-desert region of southern afghanistan including the registan Desert and the Siestan Basin. it combines all of Freitag’s (1971, 1972) semi-desert communities in the south-western part of the country. this includes the Haloxylon salicrnicum Semi-de-sert, calliginum-artistida Semi-Desert, chenopodiumrich and amygdalus Semi-Desert communities. Dasht-e-nawar Flamingo and waterfowl Sanctuary is not legally protected by the afghan government and the insecurity that charac-terizes the area limits the realization of practical conserva-tion measures

Indus Valley desert

BALUCHISTAN XERIC WOODLANDS

67% of the territory is bare or sparse vegetation. %9 is shrubland, 8% is herbaceous vegetation, and 9% is cultivated cropland.

Below 1,500 meters, the vegetation is steppe in character. From 1,500 to 2,000 meters is found montane open forest of Pistachio trees (Pistacia atlantica), Wild almond (of genus Prunus), and Barberry (Berberis). Lower brush includes Honeysuckle bush (of genus Lonicera), Sage (Artemisia (genus) spp.), and Pashtun juniper (Juniperus macropoda). At higher altitudes there is a transition zone of Sclerophyll trees (woody brush with hard leaves). At still higher elevations are the isolated alpine meadows of other ecoregions.

Allium

Tulpa

Iris

communities:

perennial grasses

tropical shrubs

Leguminosae

Rhamnaceae

Tamaricaceae

Bromus

Poa Anua

Saccharum spontaneum

Tamarix

Gramineae

Dodonaea viscosa

Lycium,Solanaceae

Sage

Artemisia maritima

Artemisia genus

Honeysuckle Busch

Salvadora

Salvadora oleoides

Acacia

Acacia modesta

Acacia arabica

Olea

Olea cuspidata

Juniper

Pashtun juniper

Juniperus macropoda

Juniperus semiglobosa

Barberry (Berberis)

Wild Almond

Pistacia Atlantica

SOIL

uneven limestone

filled with lacustrine clays, gravel, or boulder

pedocals

gypsum

THAR DESERT

  1. https://www.sahapedia.org/the-plants-of-the-thar-desert
  2. https://www.sahapedia.org/the-vegetation-of-the-thar-desert-geography-history-culture-and-conservation !!!

OTHER PLANTS

Suaeda fruticosa

FLOWERS / HERBS

Bekario/ Heartleaf indigo

The Thar’s desert sands overlie Archean (early Precambrian) gneiss (metamorphic rocks formed between 4 billion and 2.5 billion years ago), Proterozoic (later Precambrian) sedimentary rocks (formed about 2.5 billion to 541 million years ago), and more-recent alluvium (material deposited by rivers). The surface consists of aeolian (wind-deposited) sand that has accumulated over the past 1.8 million years.

The soils consist of several main groups—desert soils, red desertic soils, sierozems (brownish gray soils), the red and yellow soils of the foothills, the saline soils of the depressions, and the lithosols (shallow weathered soils) and regosols (soft loose soils) found in the hills. All those soils are predominantly coarse-textured, well-drained, and calcareous (calcium-bearing). A thick accumulation of lime often occurs at varying depths. The soils are generally infertile and, because of severe wind erosion, are overblown with sand.

Sand dunes

e.g.

Lal Suhanra National Park

Eolian sand

BIOME ESSENTIAL
COMPONENTS

River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)

Blue Bush (Maireana sp.)

Prickly Wattle (Acacia victoriae)

Dead Finish (Acacia tetragonophylla)

Copperburrs (Sclerolaena sp.)

Saltbush (Atriplex sp.)

SHURBS

GROUND

http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/DesertPavement.html

FLOWERS

LICHES

MOSSES

FLOWERS, HERBS, PLANTS

Ceratolimon feei

Battandiera amoena

Citrullus colocynthis

Cistanche tubulosa

Cistanche tubulosa is a holoparasitic desert plant species in the genus Cistanche.

GRASS

SHRUBS

TREES

Phoenix dactylifera

Date palm

Pistacia

Salvadora persica

Salvadora persica (arak, jhak, pīlu, Salvadora indica, toothbrush tree, mustard tree)

Ziziphus jujuba

Ziziphus jujuba, commonly called jujube, red date, Chinese date, is a species in the genus of Ziziphus (some of whose other species are also sometimes referred to as jujube), in the buckthorn family

Calotropis procera

Calotropis procera - Common names for the plant include Apple of Sodom, Sodom apple, stabragh[citation needed], king's crown, rubber bush and rubber tree

Tamarix aphylla

Tamarix aphylla - The species has a variety of common names, including Athel tamarisk, Athel tree, and Athel pine

Vachellia nilotica

Vachellia nilotica (commonly known as gum arabic tree,

babul, thorn mimosa, Egyptian acacia or thorny acacia)

Vachellia jacquemontii

Prosopis cineraria

Prosopis cineraria, also known as ‘Ghaf, It is also the state tree of

Rajasthan (where it is known as Khejri), Western Uttar Pradesh (where it is known as Chhonkara) and Telangana (where it is known as Jammi) in India, Shami, Khijro, Janti and Jand.

khajri tree

TERRAINS

The principal topographical features of the Sahara include shallow, seasonally inundated basins (chotts and dayas) and large oasis depressions; extensive gravel-covered plains (serirs or regs); rock-strewn plateaus (hammadas); abrupt mountains; and sand sheets, dunes, and sand seas (ergs).

Dunes mobiles

Fezna (gps: 31.5255, -4.5122)

Sandy plain

Gorges

Mountain slopes

Jdayed (gps: 30.8462, -4.1713 - altitude: 700/900m)

Guelta | Amda

Hamada | Gara

Erg | Dunes

Erg: desert of fixed dunes of which only the superficial sand is constantly reshaped by the wind.

Sidi-Ali (gps: 30.7913, -4.7919)

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Sebkha, chott | Salt lake

Sebkha: floodable depression whose bottom is covered with a salt crust where no vegetation grows.

Chott: edge of the sebkha, covered with vegetation of salt tolerant plants.

Sebkhas and chotts are found south of the Tafilalet, in the flood bed of the Ziz wadi. Where the water only passes and deposits silt, we have maader; but where water accumulates, stagnates and then evaporates and deposits dissolved mineral salts, there are sebkhas and chotts.

Chaaba | Takat | Ravine

n mountainous areas, ravines collect runoff water during brief and violent floods. The bed of the wadi is most often made up of large boulders and devoid of vegetation. Trees and bushes preferentially grow at the limit between the bed of the wadi and the foot of the scree. The slopes of the ravines - like the krebs - offer a wide variety of exposures and micro-environments favorable to a sparse but varied flora.

Daya | Doline

Dayet, pl. daya: circular basin that collects rainwater on the regs or on the hamadas, when the slope is too low for drainage lines to be created.

Dayas vary greatly in size: from a few meters to a few hundred meters in diameter. After rains, their loamy soil can retain moisture for weeks to months.

Subtopic

Mengoub

LANDFORM

https://www.vincentmounier.com/album/aerial/

GENERAL LOOK

some planing

AUSTRALASIA

NEARCTIC

NEOTROPICAL

PALEARCTIC / INDO-MALAYAN

INDOMALAYAN

PALEARCTIC

AFROTROPICAL