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Botanical features of the Algerian Sahara

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Botanical features of the Algerian Sahara

William Austin Cannon

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What grows where rain almost never falls? William Cannon studies the plants of the Algerian Sahara, mapping how climate, scarce rainfall, and desert soil shape the vegetation that survives there. A careful ecological survey from the edge of the great desert, complete with the weather data behind the botany. For readers fascinated by life at the dry extreme.

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60 chapters

  1. 1BOTANICAL FEATURES OF THE ALGERIAN SAHARA
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4INTRODUCTION.
  5. 5GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ALGERIA.
  6. 6CLIMATE OF ALGERIA.
  7. 7Table 1.—Seasonal distribution of rain.
  8. 8Table 2.—Rainfall at Ouargla, in millimeters.
  9. 9Table 3.—Seasonal distribution, in percentages, of rain.
  10. 10Table 4.—Mean relative humidity, in percentages.
  11. 11Table 5.—Evaporation in millimeters, 1908.
  12. 12Table 6.—Evaporation-rainfall ratio, monthly, 1908.
  13. 13Table 7.—Evaporation-rainfall ratio, seasonal, 1908.
  14. 14Table 8.—Maximum daily range in temperature, 1904.
  15. 15Table 9.—Absolute daily range in temperature.
  16. 16Table 10.—Average maximum temperatures.
  17. 17Table 11.—Sums of the daily maximum temperatures.
  18. 18Table 12.—Soil and air temperatures, Ghardaia, July 2-11, 1911.

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