Critical Environments: Sand Dunes and Climate Change

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages 414-427

  Tsoar, H ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biocrust; Climate change; Drought; Dune mobility; Dune stability; Inverse texture effect; Linear dunes; Negev desert; Sand seas; Vegetated linear dunes (VLDs); Wind power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903399865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00314-6     Document Type: Chapter

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