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  2. Desert ecology - Wikipedia

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    Deserts support diverse communities of plant and animals that have evolved resistance, and circumventing methods of extreme temperatures and arid conditions. For example, desert grasslands are more humid and slightly cooler than its surrounding ecosystems.

  3. List of desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions - Wikipedia

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    Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert: Oman, United Arab Emirates: Hobyo grasslands and shrublands: Somalia: Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub: Bassas da India, Europa: Kalahari xeric savanna: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa: Kaokoveld desert: Angola, Namibia: Madagascar spiny thickets: Madagascar: Madagascar succulent woodlands: Madagascar

  4. Deserts and xeric shrublands - Wikipedia

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    The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. [8] The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. [9] The Carnarvon xeric shrublands of Australia are a regional center for endemism. [1] The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant ...

  5. List of deserts - Wikipedia

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    The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in which the desert is located. Africa. Namib Desert.

  6. List of North American deserts - Wikipedia

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    The Sonoran Desert is a desert located in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. It is the second largest hot desert in North America. Its total area is 120,000 sq mi (310,000 km 2). The Mojave Desert is the hottest desert in North America, located primarily in southeastern California and Southern Nevada.

  7. The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

  8. Desert - Wikipedia

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    A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation.

  9. List of ecoregions in North America (CEC) - Wikipedia

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    Oases form in all four deserts when the groundwater reaches the surface and pools in the hollows of the desert basins. [10] Being surrounded by mountains provides a rain shadow effect that contributes to the dry climate and creates the desert ecosystem. [11] All four deserts experience times of drought and times of intense precipitation. [12]

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