Water Economy in Desert Organisms
The white-throated wood rat, Neotoma albigula, may go its whole life without ever taking a drink of water. It does not need to. The rat obtains all the water it needs...
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Deserts cover about one-fifth of the world ("Desert") and are usually located between 15 and 30 degrees north and south of the equator ("The Desert Environment"), or another way of saying it, the land...
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Desert, term applied to regions on the earth that are characterised by less than about 250mm of annual rainfall, and, in many cases an evaporation rate that exceeds precipitation, and a high average...
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