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From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 33) Peer-ReviewedSince pre-Islamic times, the Arab desert has been a central setting, theme, and motif in Arabic poetry. But how is the Arab desert viewed in American poetic discourse? Starting with a survey of the position of the...
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From:Journal of Southern History (Vol. 78, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWar of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. By Brian DeLay. Lamar Series in Western History. (New Haven and London: Published by Yale University Press in association with the William P. Clements...
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From:Design WeekYour recent Voxpop (DW 11 June) posed the question, 'If you could design one thing to benefit the capital, what would it be?' London needs a floating desert island to drift down the River Thames, stopping at random,...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 116, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe North American urban landscape has changed considerably over the past few decades with the advent of the automobile as the transportation mode of choice, Privatized mobility allowed wealthier people to move outward...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 85, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMost travel books fall victim to the cliches of their time. In older examples, the author visits a place and then writes the desired setpiece: the harbor entrepot satisfies a taste for the seedy; the alpine vista...
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From:Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 33) Peer-ReviewedThe "Desert" refers to a complex locus of experience and reflection; it is simultaneously an interior space of the mind; an exterior space where pilgrims, adventurers, and travelers can visit and dwell; and an...
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From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 7, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedByline: M. Taylor, S. Kazadzis, A. Tsekeri, A. Gkikas, V. Amiridis To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:University Business (Vol. 20, Issue 9)URBS 331 - Food and the City Taught by Douglas Cremer, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Woodbury University, California "One of the most contentious issues shaping urban studies is...
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From:Nature (Vol. 550, Issue 7675) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Amy Maxmen Death Valley, California Jim Patton brushes a packrat's furry white belly with a vibrant green marker as his wife, Carol, croons over the animal. "We're making you beautiful - punk mice!" ...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Christos Barboutis (1), Ian Henshaw (2), Cecilia Kullberg (2), Stamatina Nikolopoulou (3), Thord Fransson (4) Introduction About 2 billion songbirds breeding in the Western Palearctic cross the Saharan...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 43, Issue 1)As NASA's missions evolve to reflect changing ambitions in space, a small army of specialists--from materials scientists to zipper-designers--craft the clothing that allows astronauts to stay alive and perform tasks...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe infiltration of stormwater runoff for use by urban trees is a major co-benefit of green infrastructure for desert cities with limited water resources. However, the effects of this passive irrigation versus regular,...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 100, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWhile it's difficult to imagine the Sahara Desert as anything but dry and barren, fossils and other evidence indicate that for periods of history it was verdant and full of life. Past analyses of sediment cores taken...
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From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEndolithic microhabitats have been described as the last refuge for life in arid and hyper-arid deserts where life has to deal with harsh environmental conditions. A number of rock substrates from the hyper-arid Atacama...
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From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 13) Peer-ReviewedA reliable identification of desert dust (DD) episodes over north-central Spain is carried out based on the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) columnar aerosol sun photometer (aerosol optical depth, AOD, and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedDesert ungulates live in adverse ecosystems that are particularly sensitive to degradation and global climate change. Here, we asked how two ungulate species with contrasting feeding habits, grazing gemsbok (Oryx g....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSpatial variation in resources is a fundamental driver of habitat quality but the realized value of resources at any point in space may depend on the effects of conspecifics and stochastic factors, such as weather,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThis study represents the first characterization of sand microbiota in migrating barchan sand dunes. Bacterial communities were studied through direct counts and cultivation, as well as 16S rRNA gene and metagenomic...
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From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 15, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedSoil respiration (R.sub.s) is the most important source of carbon dioxide emissions from soil to atmosphere. However, it is unclear what the interactive response of R.sub.s would be to environmental changes such as...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding the response of soil properties and bacterial communities in rhizosphere soil to aridity and dune types is fundamental to desertification control. This study investigated soil properties and bacterial...