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    <title>Climate change and its impact on ecosystem services and biodiversity in arid and semi-arid zones</title>
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    <namePart>Karmaoui, Ahmed</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1982-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>IGI Global</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2019</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxiii, 408 pages : illustrations, col. ; 29 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>"This book explores the effects of climate change and the human pressure on biodiversity and ecosystem services in dry lands. It also focuses on how climate change impacts the biodiversity and the associated ecosystem services and how it can be overcome at various strategic policy formulations in local, national and international levels"--</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Climatic and eco-epidemiological aspects of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ouarzazate Province, Morocco / Ahmed Karmaoui -- Seasonal distribution of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, in Middle Draa Valley, south of Morocco / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali -- Water-climate-leishmaniasis nexus in an endemic focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, the Middle Draa Valley, Morocco / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali -- Associations between climate and the activity of the phlebotomus papatasi, vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali -- Environmental vulnerability and the need to establish long-term ecological research network in Morocco (Mo-LTER) / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali -- Drought and desertification, exploring the connections under the young eyes in Moroccan pre-Sahara, Draa Valleys / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali -- Ecological and social drivers of ecosystem vulnerability in Oasis Biome, Morocco / Ahmed Karmaoui -- Biodiversity informatics management initiative in consonance with conservation and ecosystem services in climate change adaptation / Dipankar Saha, R.K. Bhatt -- Climate change, ecosystem services and food security / Samreen Siddiqui.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ahmed Karmaoui (Southern Center for Culture &amp; Sciences (SCCS), Morocco), (editor).</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Climatic changes</topic>
    <topic>Government policy</topic>
    <geographic>Morocco</geographic>
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    <topic>Biodiversity</topic>
    <topic>Climatic factors</topic>
    <geographic>Morocco</geographic>
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    <topic>Ecosystem services</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QC 903.2 .M8C55 2019</classification>
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