Ebook: Towards the rational use of high salinity tolerant plants: Vol. 1 Deliberations about High Salinity Tolerant Plants and Ecosystems

The symposium on high salinity tolerant plants, held at the University of Al Ain in December 1990, dealt primarily with plants tolerating salinity levels exceeding that of ocean water and which at the same time are promising for utilization in agriculture or forestry.
The papers of the proceedings of this symposium have been published in two volumes. This volume (1) deals with mangroves and inland high salinity tolerant plants and ecosystems and is divided into the following categories: 1. Vegetation analyses and descriptions of mangroves; 2. Ecosystem analyses; 3. Physiological analyses; 4. Utilization of mangroves and saltmarsh plants; 5. Soil and water analyses. Volume 2 deals with the improvement of salinity tolerance for traditional crops under marginal soils and irrigation water and is published in `Tasks for Vegetation Science' series (TAVS) Vol. 28.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Seawater irrigation studies in the United Arab Emirates — an introduction to the Al Ain Conference....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Geomorphological and climatic setting and the development of mangrove forests....Pages 13-20
Halophytes in China: Floristic distribution and vegetation type....Pages 21-34
A contribution to the halophytic vegetation and flora of Iran....Pages 35-44
Environmental aspects of geographical distribution of mangrove in the United Arab Emirates....Pages 45-58
Characteristics of mangrove soils and vegetation of Bay Islands in India....Pages 59-80
Environment and vegetation of Sundarban mangrove forest....Pages 81-88
Rehabilitation and management of mangrove forests of Pakistan....Pages 89-95
Zonation and distribution of creek and fringe mangroves in the semi-arid Kenyan coast....Pages 97-105
Mangroves of arid environments of Latin America....Pages 107-116
Mangroves of arid regions of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean....Pages 117-122
Ecological parameters of the mangroves of semi-arid regions of Mexico: Important for ecosystem management....Pages 123-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Mangrove ecosystem as soil, water and plant interactive system....Pages 135-143
Net primary production, biomass turnover and transpiration efficiency of Porterasai coarctata Takeoka in Sundarbans mangrove swamps, India....Pages 145-148
Study of biomass, litter fall and litter decomposition in managed and unmanaged mangrove forests of Andaman Islands....Pages 149-154
Macrobenthic invertebrates of mangrove, Avicennia marina (Forskal), and of intertidal flats of Khor Kalba, U.A.E., Gulf of Oman....Pages 155-161
Salt tolerant bacteria from the rhizosphere of mangrove plants....Pages 163-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-178
Influence of salinity on mangrove zonation....Pages 179-179
Effect of salinity on the growth of some mangrove plants in Bangladesh....Pages 181-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-192
Diurnal water relations and the salt content of two contrasting mangroves growing in hypersaline soils in tropical-arid Australia....Pages 179-179
Physiological adaptations to different salinity levels in mangrove....Pages 193-216
Effect of available rooting volume on seedling growth....Pages 217-224
Soil aeration as an ecological factor governing mangrove zonation....Pages 225-230
Preliminary studies on the effect of different salinity levels on germination, growth and anatomy of mangrove (Avicennia marina)....Pages 231-236
Interelement correlations in the mangrove, Rhizophora mangle L.....Pages 237-244
Biochemical changes induced by sodium carbonate and bicarbonate in the halophytes Suaeda maritima and Suaeda nudiflora of Tuticorin Coast....Pages 245-249
Chemical analysis of Atriplex species grown at Nubaria in a calcareous soil....Pages 251-254
Importance of mineral nutrient cycling for salinity tolerance of plants....Pages 255-259
Plant growth response to salt stress....Pages 261-263
Soil-plant-water relationships of Eclipta alba (Hassk.) in a salt-affected terrestrial ecosystem....Pages 265-277
Phytohormonal approach to salinity resistance....Pages 279-291
Elucidation of the role of osmoprotective compounds and osmoregulatory genes: The key role of bacteria....Pages 293-305
Germination response under elevated salinities of six semi-arid bluebush species (Western Australia)....Pages 307-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-322
Constraints on the growth, propagation and utilization of mangroves in arid regions....Pages 323-338
Human impact on the mangrove of Khor Farasan Island, Southern Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia....Pages 339-339
Studies on the role of salt-tolerant plants in the formation and stabilization of coastal dunes of the deltaic Sunderbans, North-East coast of India....Pages 341-352
Development of an intertidal mangrove nursery and afforestation techniques along the Indian coast....Pages 353-361
Halophyte crops for direct salt water irrigation....Pages 363-370
Front Matter....Pages 371-378
Adaptation of plants to saline conditions in arid regions....Pages 379-385
Salt-tolerant plants for the arid regions of the Mediterranean isoclimatic zone....Pages 339-339
On the ecology of Zygophyllum aegyptium in Egypt....Pages 387-401
The effect of soil salt content on the internal structure of Zygophyllum spp. in U.A.E.....Pages 403-422
Utilization of high salinity tolerant plants and saline water by desert animals....Pages 423-433
Australian experiences with high salinity diets for sheep....Pages 435-441
Front Matter....Pages 443-447
Distribution pattern of soil microbial population in salt-affected soils....Pages 449-457
The effect of salinity on some halophilic soil fungi....Pages 459-464
Sulphur and irrigation management for salinity control in desert soils....Pages 465-465
Sodic soil reclamation....Pages 467-472
Salinity problems in acid sulfate coastal soils....Pages 473-477
Soils of the mangrove habitats in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands....Pages 479-483
Comprehensive analytical modeling of transient phreatic surface in arid regions....Pages 485-490
Back Matter....Pages 491-500
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