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List of Figures CHAPTER 1: Natural History and Evolution of the World's Deserts Figure 1.1: Vegetation - barren areas of the world Figure 1.2: Alternative definitions of the desert biome Figure 1.3: The desert biome defined by combined criteria Figure 1.4: Continentality and aridity Figure 1.5: The upwelling phenomenon Figure 1.6: The Namibian coast Figure 1.7: Sea surface temperatures and coastal deserts Figure 1.8: Ephemeral plants in the Gran Desierto Figure 1.9: Continentality and glacial dynamics in the northern and southern hemispheres Figure 1.10: The Maderas del Carmen range Figure 1.11: Convergent Evolution Figure 1.12: Fleshy-stemmed trees Figure 1.13: The sidewinder snake Figure 1.14: The African grand squirrel Figure 1.15: Ostriches in the Namib Figure 1.16: Nurse plants Figure 1.17: Seed dispersal CHAPTER 2: People and Deserts Figure 2.1: Cave paintings, Baja California Figure 2.2: Topnaar wild harvest Figure 2.3: Desert pastoralism Figure 2.4: Desert travellers in Egypt Figure 2.5: Himba woman, Kaokoveld, Namibia Figure 2.6: Modern desert irrigation Figure 2.7: Traditional cultures Figure 2.8: Desert vegetation patterns CHAPTER 3: Deserts and the Planet - Linkages between Deserts and Non-Deserts Figure 3.1: Atmospheric dust Figure 3.2: Travelling dust storms Figure 3.3: Desert rivers of the world Figure 3.4: The Silk Road: trans-desert trade route in Eurasia, 3rd–15th century Figure 3.5: Desert road protection Figure 3.6: Major migratory bird routes of the world Figure 3.7: Distribution and movements of the desert locust Figure 3.8: Desert fossils Figure 3.9: Archeological remains in the Negev Desert Figure 3.11: Hieroglyphs and the development of alphabetic script Figure 3.10: Prehistoric desert shrines CHAPTER 4: State and Trends of the World's Deserts Figure 4.1: The Afrotropic realm Figure 4.2: Australasian deserts Figure 4.3: Indo-Malay deserts Figure 4.4: Nearctic deserts Figure 4.5: Neotropical deserts Figure 4.6: Palearctic deserts — the Sahara Figure 4.7: Palearctic deserts — Central Asia Figure 4.8: Salinized soils Figure 4.9: Mining impact in deserts Figure 4.10: Participatory training CHAPTER 5: Challenges and Opportunities - Change, Development, and Conservation Figure 5.1: Palm Springs Figure 5.2: Burj Al Arab Figure 5.3: The “Burning Man” ceremony, 2005 Figure 5.4: Desert launch centre in China Figure 5.5: The vanishing Aral Sea Figure 5.6: Non-renewable use of water Figure 5.7: Kata Tjuta Figure 5.8: Millet field in arid Sudan Figure 5.9: Dust storm over Lake Chad Figure 5.10: Salinization of desert soils Figure 5.11: The shrinking Mesopotamian wetlands Figure 5.12: Desert lakes, Wanyanga, Chad CHAPTER 6: Desert Outlook and Options for Action Figure 6.1: Population density in deserts (2000) and projected increases (by 2015) — medium variant projection Figure 6.2: Urban growth in deserts Figure 6.3: Projected climate change in global deserts Figure 6.4: Annual renewable water supply in deserts by river basin, 1995 and 2025 Figure 6.5: Renewable freshwater availability per person in selected desert countries, 2005–2050 Figure 6.6: Historic and projected land use charges Figure 6.7: Historic and projected human impacts Figure 6.8: Projected declines in desert wilderness areas Figure 6.9: Global map of species abundance in deserts for 2000 and 2050 (SRES A2)
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