Journal of Arid Environments - 83, 2012

Contents:

Editorial Board

Abundance and diversity of small mammals in response to various linear habitats in semi-arid agricultural landscapes
T.P. Sullivan, D.S. Sullivan, H.M.A. Thistlewood
 
Regional forage production assessment in arid and semi-arid rangelands – A step towards social–ecological analysis
 M.H. Easdale, M.R. Aguiar
 
Are Fabiana imbricata shrublands advancing over northwestern Patagonian grasslands? A population dynamics study involving fire and precipitation
 M.I. de Torres Curth, L. Ghermandi, C. Biscayart

Effect of grazing intensity on evapotranspiration in the semiarid grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China
 L. Wang, H. Liu, B. Ketzer, R. Horn, C. Bernhofer
 
Groundwater use by native plants in response to changes in precipitation in an intermountain basin
 J.A. Kray, D.J. Cooper, J.S. Sanderson
 
Effects of afforestation on soil respiration in an arid shrubland in Chile
 J.F. Perez-Quezada, H.E. Bown, J.P. Fuentes, F.A. Alfaro, N. Franck
 
Hydraulic redistribution by two semi-arid shrub species: Implications for Sahelian agro-ecosystems
 F. Kizito, M.I. Dragila, M. Sene, J.R. Brooks, F.C. Meinzer, I. Diedhiou, M. Diouf, A. Lufafa, R.P. Dick, J. Selker, R. Cuenca
 
Short-term and diurnal patterns of salt secretion by Tamarix ramosissima and their relationships with climatic factors
 S. Imada, K. Acharya, N. Yamanaka
 
Parasitism and haustorium anatomy of Krameria lappacea (Dombey) Burdet & B.B. Simpson (Krameriaceae), an endangered medicinal plant from the Andean deserts
 G. Brokamp, N. Dostert, F. Cáceres-H, M. Weigend
 
Effects of land-cover transformation and climate change on the distribution of two endemic lizards, Crotaphytus antiquus and Sceloporus cyanostictus, of northern Mexico
 H. Gadsden, C. Ballesteros-Barrera, O. Hinojosa de la Garza, G. Castaneda, C. García-De la Pena, J.A. Lemos-Espinal
 
Effects of seasonal grazing, drought, fire, and carbon enrichment on soil microarthropods in a desert grassland
 W.G. Whitford, Y. Steinberger
 
Seasonal dynamics of vegetation over the past 100 years inferred from tree rings and climate in Hulunbei'er steppe, northern China
 Z.-J. Chen, J.-B. Li, K.-Y. Fang, N.K. Davi, X.-Y. He, M.-X. Cui, X.-L. Zhang, J.-J. Peng

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