Saline and alkaline vegetation of NE Africa and the Arabian peninsula: An overview

Ghazanfar, Shahina A.

doi:10.1007/3-7643-7610-4_11

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“…Tidal marshes of the Arabian coasts usually extend landward from the mangrove, occupying the high intertidal/low supratidal tidal zone. They are dominated by succulent shrubs species (e.g., Suaeda vermiculata and Halopeplis perfoliata ), forming an ecosystem regionally known as “sabkha” (Ghazanfar, ) that occupies vast spans of coastal areas. Seagrass are present all along the Arabian coastline, with 12 species recorded in the Red Sea and 3 species in the Arabian Gulf (Green & Short, ).…”

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Accumulation of Carbonates Contributes to Coastal Vegetated Ecosystems Keeping Pace With Sea Level Rise in an Arid Region (Arabian Peninsula)

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Anthropogenic sea level rise (SLR) presents one of the greatest risks to human lives and infrastructures. Coastal vegetated ecosystems, that is, tidal marshes, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests, elevate the seabed through soil accretion, providing a natural coastline protection against SLR. The soil accretion of these ecosystems has never been assessed in hot desert climate regions, where water runoff is negligible. However, tropical marine ecosystems are areas of intense calcification that may constitute an important source of sediment supporting seabed elevation, compensating for the lack of terrestrial inputs. We estimated the long‐term (14C‐centennial) and short‐term (210Pb‐20th century) soil accretion rates (SARs) and inorganic carbon (Cinorg) burial in coastal vegetated ecosystems of the Saudi coasts of the central Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf. Short‐term SARs (±SE) in mangroves of the Red Sea (0.27 ± 0.22 cm/year) were twofold the SLR for that region since 1925 (0.13 cm/year). In the Arabian Gulf, only mangrove forest SAR is equivalent to local SLR estimates for the period 1979–2007 (0.21 ± 0.09 compared to 0.22 ± 0.05 cm/year, respectively). Long‐term SARs are comparable or higher than the global estimates of SLR for the late Holocene (0.01 cm/year). In all habitats of the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf, SARs are supported by high carbonate accretion rates, comprising 40% to 60% of the soil volume. Further studies on the role of carbonates in coastal vegetated ecosystems are required to understand their role in adaptation to SLR.

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Accumulation of Carbonates Contributes to Coastal Vegetated Ecosystems Keeping Pace With Sea Level Rise in an Arid Region (Arabian Peninsula)

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“…Consequently, the flora has many elements of two of the eight global terrestrial realms; namely the Palaearctic (Europe and Asia) and the Afro-tropical (Africa south of the Sahara) as well as a smaller complement of elements from the Indo-Malayan terrestrial realm. It is thus, an area of ecological and academic significance (Ghazanfar, 2007). The general scope of ethno-botany, an area of human ecology, was well defined earlier as the interface between people and their plant resources, and offers clues needed for rural development based on sustainable yields of forest products (Ali et al, 2002).…”

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Pharmaceutically important plants used in traditional system of Arab medicine for the treatment of livestock ailments in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Hashemzadeh²,

Ghorbani³

et al. 2011

Afr. J. Biotechnol.

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A study on the pharmaceutical importance of some medicinal pants used for the treatment of livestock ailments was conducted during summer 2010 in different parts of Saudi Arabia, where no such study has been conducted so far. The aim of the study was to identify and document the medicinal plants used for the treatment of different livestock ailment in the traditional system of Arab medicine. Ethnoveterinary information was collected through the show-and-tell/semi-structured method and personal interviews during field trips. The methodology is largely based on the Sustainable Livelihood Framework, which is based on the premise that livelihood is not about resource productivity but it is about people and their lives. The study revealed 24 plants species of ethno-veterinary importance. These were used for the curing of various livestock ailments such as gastrointestinal disorders, fever, cough, respiratory tract infection, urinary tract diseases, promote lactation, wound healing, placenta removal, deworming, carminative, paralysis and flatulence in Arab system of medicine. Some plants were used singly while many others were used in combination with other plants or edible items. Similarly, few plants species are considered for the treatment of only one specific disease while several other have multiple such uses. The detail local uses, local recipe preparation, application and disease treated were reported for each species. The study concluded that, the medicinal plant knowledge of the people is strongly influenced by Arab system of traditional medicine and that medicinal plants have exerted and continue to exert, a strong influence on the standardization of plant knowledge among rural populations in Saudi Arabi. However, distinct local use of plants also exists; indicating that plant knowledge specific to the local Badous is alive and practiced. The study recommends scientific validity and toxicity tests of the medicinal plants used in traditional Arab system of medicine.

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“…The grains were identified making reference to the available literature (Bonnefille, 1971; Bonnefille and Riollet, 1980; El-Ghazaly, 1991; Kedves, 1980; Mariotti Lippi et al, 2007) and to a pollen reference collection set up for this purpose. Among Gramineae, the grains attributable to Cerealia (Andersen, 1979; Beug, 1964) were distinguished and counted separately; Phragmites and Sporobolus (dropseed), a plant currently common in the Omani estuaries (Ghazanfar, 2006), were also distinguished and indicated as Phragmites / Sporobolus . Pollen concentration (APF = Absolute Pollen Frequency) was calculated as number of pollen grains per gram.…”

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Palaeoenvironmental signals in ancient urban setting: The heavy rainfall record in Sumhuram, a pre-Islamic archaeological site of Dhofar (S Oman)

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A case study of an archaeological section in the pre-Islamic town of Sumhuram (third century bc–fifth century ad; Dhofar, S Oman) is presented. Sedimentological and palynological data have been integrated with the aim of finding signals of natural processes within an urban context. Two main types of deposits alternate in the section: anthropogenic (AD) and waterlain (WD). The presence of laminated sediments within the WD deposits, suggesting short-term street flooding from heavy rainfall, encouraged the development of a targeted palynological sampling strategy. The results of the pollen analysis in these laminated sediments, e.g. high pollen concentrations (particularly of wet environment plants), clumped pollen grains, long distance pollen grains, and overall good state of preservation, suggest a stronger monsoonal influence than the present and high precipitation in S Oman between 204 bc and ad 130.

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Saline and alkaline vegetation of NE Africa and the Arabian peninsula: An overview

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Accumulation of Carbonates Contributes to Coastal Vegetated Ecosystems Keeping Pace With Sea Level Rise in an Arid Region (Arabian Peninsula)

Accumulation of Carbonates Contributes to Coastal Vegetated Ecosystems Keeping Pace With Sea Level Rise in an Arid Region (Arabian Peninsula)

Pharmaceutically important plants used in traditional system of Arab medicine for the treatment of livestock ailments in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Palaeoenvironmental signals in ancient urban setting: The heavy rainfall record in Sumhuram, a pre-Islamic archaeological site of Dhofar (S Oman)

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