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| Figure 1.3: The desert biome defined by combined criteria |
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| Box 2.8, Figure A: Desert cities today (red dots) and cities on the fringes of deserts (blue dots)". |
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| Box 2.8, Figure B: Comparative trends of population growth of selected cities in the United States |
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| Table 3.1: Changes in desert temperatures and rainfall |
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| Box 5.2, Figure 2: Dead palms on a deserted golf course near the Salton Sea, California. Photo: Michael Field. |
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| Box 5.5, Figure: Algal culture in the Negev desert, Israel. Photo: Rachel Guy |
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| Figure 5.10: Salinization of desert soils: a Sindhi cowherd and grazing cattle on a former rice field. Photo: Andrew Warren. |
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| Figure 6.3: Projected climate change in deserts |
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| Figure 6.4: Annual renewable water supply in deserts, by river basin |
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| Figure 6.5: Renewable freshwater availability per person in selected desert countries |
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| Figure 6.7: Historic and projected human impacts in deserts. |
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| Figure 6.8: Projected declines in wilderness areas. |
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