The chapters in this section place the problems of vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions into the context which recur throughout the book. Fi

An accessible account of the ways in which the world's plant life affects the climate. It covers everything from tiny local microclimates created by plants to t

Extensive regions of the world have a climate which, whilst permitting development of a continuous vegetative cover, is too dry for successful annual cropping.

Ecohydrology emerges as a new field of research aiming at furthering our understanding of the earth system through the study of the interactions between the wat