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| Brief description |
Ecological assessment of natural resources using aerial photographs to establish different types of maps Forage composition, consumption rate and nutrition value of diet Rehabilitation and restoration of degraded ecosystems, by the propagation of endangered plant species, and introduction of specially valuable or multi-purpose species Environmental site characterization by soil fauna to identify relations between species of soil fauna and environmental parameters in managed and natural ecosystems Crop production levels and land-use planning for desert agro-ecosystems R-D / R-A planning Models for crop production "potential, water limited, nutrient limited" Species richness and diversity of the vegetation Temporal environmental changes by remote sensing Land-use/land-cover by thematic mapping Sustainability map, and major land use types using GIS Intensive studies on hydrology, climatology, geomorphology and soils Monitoring the impacts of climatic change on ecosystem structure and function including productivity of rangeland and of orchards Mapping of the different biosphere reserve zones Study of human impacts on the environment Role of women in Bedouin communities Biodiversity database Analysing the process of habitat fragmentation in the biosphere reserve, assessed by using high-resolution satellite imagery |
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| Abiotic | Climate, geomorphology, habitat, hydrology, nutrients, soil. | |||
| Biodiversity | Arid/Semi-arid, biodiversity, degraded areas, ecology, ecosystem assessment, ecosystem functioning/ecosystem structure, fauna, natural resources, productivity, rare/endangered/threatened species, reintroduction, restoration/rehabilitation/redevelopment, vegetation studies/plant cover. | |||
| Socio-economic | Agriculture/Production systems, economically important species, livestock and related impacts/overgrazing, modelling, role of women/gender. | |||
| Integrated monitoring | Environmental change, geographic information system/gis, impact and risk studies/environmental impact, integrated studies/interdisciplinaty, land use/land cover, management issues, mapping, monitoring/methodologies, planning and zoning measures/zonation, remote sensing, sustainable development/sustainable use. | |||
| Last updated: 10/15/2001 |
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