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Wehner, R.; Marsh, A.C.; Wehner, S. (1992). "Desert ants on a thermal tightrope". Nature. 357 (6379): 586–87. Bibcode: 1992Natur.357..586W. doi: 10.1038/357586a0. S2CID 11774194. Rapid population growth also can lead to overuse of resources, killing plant life and depleting nutrients from the soil. Lake Chad is a source of freshwater for four countries on the edge of the Sahara Desert: Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria. These developing countries use Lake Chad’s shallow waters for agriculture, industry, and hygiene. Since the 1960s, Lake Chad has shrunk to half its size. Desertification has severely reduced the wetlandhabitats surrounding the lake, as well as its fishery and grazing lands. Rising temperatures can have huge effects on fragiledesertecosystems. Global warming is the most current instance of climate change. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming. Snell, Ron (February 2, 2006). Jungle Calls (Kindleed.). Garland, Texas: Hannibal Books. ISBN 0-929292-86-3 . Retrieved May 27, 2020.

Air transportation and the development of air conditioning have made the sunny climate of deserts even more accessible and attractive to people from colder regions. Populations at resorts like Palm Springs, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, have boomed. Desert parks, such as Death Valley National Park, California, attract thousands of visitors every year. People who migrate to the warm, dry desert for the winter and return to more temperate climates in the spring are sometimes called “ snowbirds.” Plants and animals adapt to desert habitats in many ways. Desert plants grow far apart, allowing them to obtain as much water around them as possible. This spacing gives some desert regions a desolate appearance.The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. [17] [18] It is located in the horse latitudes under the subtropical ridge, a significant belt of semi-permanent subtropical warm-core high pressure where the air from the upper troposphere usually descends, warming and drying the lower troposphere and preventing cloud formation.

Cook, Kerry H.; Vizy, Edward K. (2015). "Detection and Analysis of an Amplified Warming of the Sahara Desert". Journal of Climate. 28 (16): 6560. Bibcode: 2015JCli...28.6560C. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00230.1. Besides animals like camels and goats, a variety of desertvegetation is found in oases and along the shores of rivers and lakes. Figs, olives, and oranges thrive in desert oases and have been harvested for centuries. The South Saharan steppe and woodlands ecoregion is a narrow band running east and west between the hyper-arid Sahara and the Sahel savannas to the south. Movements of the equatorial Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) bring summer rains during July and August which average 100 to 200mm (4 to 8in) but vary greatly from year to year. These rains sustain summer pastures of grasses and herbs, with dry woodlands and shrublands along seasonal watercourses. This ecoregion covers 1,101,700 square kilometres (425,400sqmi) in Algeria, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Sudan. [46]

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Desert National Park covers an area of 3162km² of which 1900km² is in Jaisalmer district and remaining 1262km² is in Barmer district of Rajasthan State. The park was gazetted in 1980. [2] The park mostly consists of sand dunes (44%) but also has pediments, pavements, and structural plains. [2] Desert National Park also has fossils from the Jurassic Period. [2] Fauna [ edit ] A view of Sams Sand Dunes Kutzbach, J.E. (2 October 1981). "Monsoon Climate of the Early Holocene: Climate Experiment with the Earth's Orbital Parameters for 9000 Years Ago". Science. 214 (4516): 59–61. Bibcode: 1981Sci...214...59K. doi: 10.1126/science.214.4516.59. PMID 17802573. S2CID 10388125. Most xerocoles are nocturnal. They sleep through the hot days and do their hunting and foraging at night. Deserts that seem desolate during the day are very active in the cool nighttime air. Foxes, coyotes, rats, and rabbits are all nocturnaldesert mammals. Snakes and lizards are familiar desert reptiles. Insects such as moths and flies are abundant in the desert. Most desert birds are restricted to areas near water, such as river banks. However, some birds, such as the roadrunner, have adapted to life in the desert. The roadrunner, native to the deserts of North America, obtains water from its food.

Is the World Full or Empty?". Story Maps. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022 . Retrieved 19 October 2018. The central Sahara is hyperarid, with sparse vegetation. The northern and southern reaches of the desert, along with the highlands, have areas of sparse grassland and desert shrub, with trees and taller shrubs in wadis, where moisture collects. In the central, hyperarid region, there are many subdivisions of the great desert: Tanezrouft, the Ténéré, the Libyan Desert, the Eastern Desert, the Nubian Desert and others. These extremely arid areas often receive no rain for years. The name "Sahara" is derived from the Arabic word for "desert" in the feminine irregular form, the singular ṣaḥra' ( صحراء /ˈsˤaħra/), plural ṣaḥārā ( صَحَارَى /ˈsˤaħaːraː/), [4] [5] [6] [7] ṣaḥār ( صَحَار), ṣaḥrāwāt ( صَحْرَاوَات), ṣaḥāriy ( صَحَارِي). Climate change also affects rainfall patterns. Climate scientists predict that global warming will lead to more rainfall in some regions, but less rainfall in other places. Areas facing reduced precipitation include areas with some of the largest deserts in the world: North Africa (Sahara), the American Southwest (Sonoran and Chihuahuan), the southern Andes (Patagonia), and western Australia (Great Victoria). Einhorn, Catrin (February 4, 2022). "Ecuador Court Gives Indigenous Groups a Boost in Mining and Drilling Disputes". The New York Times. The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 6, 2022 . Retrieved February 6, 2022.a b c Kea, Ray. "Expansions and Contractions: World-Historical Change And The Western Sudan World-System (1200/1000 B.C. - 1200/1250 A.D.)". ResearchGate. Journal of World-Systems Research. Archived from the original on 27 February 2022 . Retrieved 24 May 2021. Snow falls in Sahara for first time in 37 years". CNN. 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016 . Retrieved 22 December 2016. It is also proposed that humans accelerated the drying-out period from 6000 to 2500 BCE by pastoralists overgrazing available grassland. [39] Evidence for cycles INPE: Estimativas Anuais desde 1988 até 2009". inpe.br. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010 . Retrieved November 3, 2010.

Dean, Warren (1997). Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History. Cambridge University Press. It stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert. Wilford, John Noble (14 August 2008). "In the Sahara, Stone Age graves from greener days". The New York Times. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 10 June 2016. Silvopasture (integrating trees, forage and grazing) can help to stop deforestation in the region. [132] The flora of the Sahara is highly diversified based on the bio-geographical characteristics of this vast desert. Floristically, the Sahara has three zones based on the amount of rainfall received – the Northern (Mediterranean), Central and Southern Zones. There are two transitional zones – the Mediterranean-Sahara transition and the Sahel transition zone. [50]

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