semidesert

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• The semidesert region receives more rainfall than a true desert, allowing for a variety of plant life to thrive.

• The twenty or thirty percent of Earth's land area that is desert or semidesert is rapidly being transformed into fertile territory.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Any curve in Figure 3 could describe the production pattern of semidesert soil.

  Academic text (1992)

• The case study is the application of graphical analysis to the study of semidesert soils.

  Academic text (1992)

• Increase or decrease in biomass is associated with soil thickness, so that the organic semidesert soil system feeds on itself.

  Academic text (1992)

• In 1912, about 190,000 acres of semidesert rangeland in southern New Mexico were withdrawn from public use to form the Jornada Experimental Range.

  Academic text (2000)

• We next consider how graphical analysis might permit deeper geometric distinctions to be made and interpret them in the context of soil science, specifically, an analysis of semidesert soils.

  Academic text (1992)

• Most of them would have been from faraway parts of the continent, such as the West African coast; fewer came from the Xhosa lands in the Eastern Cape, which, although notionally contiguous, were beyond the barrier of the semidesert.

  Academic text (2001)

• The result is a patchwork quilt of semidesert soils, some patches of which support biomass and others of which do not, like leopard spots on the sandy skin of the desert.

  Academic text (1992)

• In the semidesert areas of Arizona, you can find unique wildlife adapted to the dry environment.

How Dry

desert

894 1.3

semidesert

6.2

steppe

8 7.5

temperate zone

2 3.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology