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Danin A., Ganor E. Trapping of airborne dust by mosses in the Negev Desert, Israel. Earth SurfProcLandf 1991 16 153-162. 

Kidron G., Barzilay E., Sachs E. Microclimate control upon sand microbiotic crusts, western Negev Desert, Israel. Geomorphology 2000 36 1-18. 

Krumbein, W. E. Jens, K. (1981) Biogenic rock varnish of the Negev desert (Israel) an ecological study of iron and manganese transfer by cyanobacteria and fungi. Oecologia, 50, 25-38. 

Figure 23 Comparison of reconstructed irrigation water tritium input (left panel), immobile vadose-zone water tritium (center panel), and measured tritium (right panel), all as a function of depth. Study site is an irrigated vineyard in the Negev Desert, Israel (source Gvirtzman and Magaritz, 1986).

Nativ R., Adar E., Dahan O., and Nissim I. (1997) Water salinization in arid regions—observation from the Negev desert, Israel. J. Hydrol. 196, 271-296. 

Figure 8. The Ramat Hovav industrial region in the Negev Desert, Israel. Thalli of Ramalina maciformis transplanted in this region were found to contain higher Pb and Cu contents than thalli located 10-15 km away (Garty and Tamir, unpublished).

Jacobs, A. F. G, B. G. Heusinkveldand and S. M. Berkowicz (2000) Dew measurements along a longitudinal sand dnne transect, Negev Desert, Israel. International Journal of... 

Gntterman Y (1997) Spring and snmmer daily snbsnrface temperatnres in three microhabitats in a flat natnral loess area in the Negev desert, Israel. J Arid Environ 36 225-235... 

The above examples of CAM performance under field conditions came from species growing in arid habitats in California and Australia. In the deserts of the New World, CAM plants are abundant and frequently the dominant species present. In certain other deserts, however, where precipitation is also low and irregular, CAM plants are considerably less abundant and restricted to specific habitats. Caralluma negevensis, such an example, was studied by Lange et al. (1975) in its natural habitat of the Negev desert (Israel). 

Solar Energy (proposed) Mojave Desert, California Negev Desert, Israel Upington, South Africa Seville, Spain Mildura, Australia... 

Formenti, P., et al. 2001. Physical and chemical characteristics of aerosols over the Negev Desert (Israel) during summer 1996, Journal of Geophysical Research 106(D5) 4871-4890. 

In the remote Negev desert region of Israel, oil shale is being burned in a duidized-bed combustor to supply process heat and produce electric power. Unlike the Estonian kukersite, this oil shale is lean, about 63 L/1, but is being mined to access an undedying phosphate deposit (26). 

Both Israel and China are building large solar power plants at investments of about 2,500/m2 of collector area. The initial capacity of the solar thermal power plant in the Negev Desert in Israel is planned to be 150 mW, and it is estimated to cost 350 million. The plant is planned to expand to 500 mW at a cost of 1 billion. 

The cysts of the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis occasionally cause a spectacular blood-red appearance to drIed-out lakes, ponds, river beds or even the stoups in churches, and can be associated with the natural phenomenon described as "blood rain" (left). - Algae production plant in the kibbutz Ketura in the Negev desert In Israel (right). 

More recently, enormous thickenings of cortices or epinecral layers of placodial and crustose lichens were reported from northeast Afghanistan (Poelt and Wirth, 1968), from the Atacama (Follmann, 1965b), and from the Negev in Israel (Galun, 1963), where almost 60% of the heteromerous lichens have a more or less voluminous, amorphous upper layer. Until we can obtain experimental data from these desert lichens, the question of whether illumination is the primary cause of cortex thickening will remain unanswered. The thickening may also be a response to wind erosion. 

Friedmann, I., Lipkin, Y. and Ocampo-Paus, R., 1967. Desert algae of the Negev (Israel). Phycologia, 6 185—200. 

Isaak Rubinstein and Boris Zaltzman Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet, Ben-Gurion, Israel... 

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