1 Table of Contents: “...Editors Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Deserts and Desertified regions in China...”

2 Table of Contents: “... Raman Spectroscopy of Rock Biodeterioration by the Lichen Lecidea tessellata Flörke in a Desert...”

3 Table of Contents: “... and Plant Productivity -- 7. Gas-Exchange Strategies in Desert Plants -- 8. Photosynthesis of Desert Plants...”

4 Table of Contents: “... system for phytoconstituents -- 15. Medicinal flora of the trans Himalayan cold deserts of Ladakh, India...”

5 Table of Contents: “... for phytoconstituents -- Chapter 15. Medicinal flora of the trans Himalayan cold deserts of Ladakh, India -- Chapter 16...”

6 Table of Contents: “... Orientation -- 5. The Relation of Astromenotactic and Anemomenotactic OrientationMechanisms in Desert Ants...”

7 Table of Contents: “...: Lessons from the Wadi Araba desert, Israel and Jordan; Daniel E. Orenstein, Elli Groner -- 18. Socio...”

8 Table of Contents: “... and land-use history in the southern Tunisian desert margins since 6000BC (formerly: Anthropogenic impact...”

9 Table of Contents: “..., Poor Performance in Heat and Desert -- 8 / Life Forms and Extinction -- Dynasties of the Past...”

10 Table of Contents: “... -- Life on the edge: rotifers from springs and ephemeral waters in the Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend...”

11 “... of animals on the planet. Lepidoptera can be found in the highest tropical canopies,the driest deserts...”

12 “... to the rainforests of South America, Africa’s deserts and North America’s glaciers, interwoven with observations from...”

13 “... the root depth of desert grape vine the lifespan of a spruce needle the threshold in humans for smelling...”