The Vegetation of Egypt by M. A. Zahran, A. J. Willis (auth.)

By M. A. Zahran, A. J. Willis (auth.)

The place of Egypt – on the cross-roads among the center East and Africa – has attracted the eye of naturalists and explorers for plenty of centuries. but whereas there are numerous reviews with regards to the ecology and biology of Egyptian plants, the 1st factor of Zahran and Willis’ Vegetation of Egypt (1992) represented the 1st try to draw this varied info jointly. during this moment version, this priceless textual content is either up to date and accelerated to incorporate extra themes comparable to the function of distant sensing in mapping Egypt’s crops, and the commercial capability of significant wilderness species.

Covering all of the 4 significant eco-geographical areas of Egypt – the Western wasteland, the jap desolate tract, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Nile sector – the ebook integrates a wealth of aspect and represents a tremendous landmark within the crops of arid and Mediterranean-type areas. As such, it is going to offer a vital connection with complicated scholars and researchers in plant technological know-how, ecology, biogeography, climatology, fiscal botany and distant sensing.

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1). The most remarkable feature of the Mediterranean coast west of Alexandria is the prevalence of ridges of soft oolitic limestone, often 20 m or more high, extending parallel to the shore for long distances (Ball, 1939). Commonly one line of ridges skirts the coast closely, while another runs parallel with it a few kilometres inland, and there is sometimes a third ridge between the second and the edge of the Western Desert Plateau. 2 The Western Mediterranean Coastal Belt 15 Fig. 1 The Western Mediterranean coastal belt of Egypt In some places between the coastal ridge and the one next inland are salt-lagoons and marshes and in others a tract of loamy ground.

1 The Western Mediterranean coastal belt of Egypt In some places between the coastal ridge and the one next inland are salt-lagoons and marshes and in others a tract of loamy ground. A second strip of loamy ground usually separates the second ridge from the third or from the Western Desert Plateau. In the western province of the Mariut coast, the plain is narrow or lacking. The southern tableland extends southwards to the Qattara Depression. It increases gradually in level westward and attains a maximum elevation of 200 m above sea level at Sallum, sloping gently northwards.

2 The Western Mediterranean Coastal Belt 17 surface layer of the soil (Kassas, 1955). , 1971). 5 mm was recorded during 1955. At Burg El-Arab (50 km west of Alexandria) Abdel Rahman et al. 4%. Winds in the Western Mediterranean coast of Egypt are generally strong, and violent dust storms and pillars are not rare. Dry hot dust-laden winds from the south known as Khamsin blow occasionally for about 50 days during spring and early summer. During winter and early spring winds blow strongly with an average velocity of about 20–23 km/h.

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