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Deserts are arid regions where potential evaporation is very much higher than annual precipitation. These regions can be further subdivided into semiarid, arid, and extremely arid, which together, cover 35% of the earth’s land surface. The cold winter period which is typical of the arid regions of the temperate zone is lacking in the subtropical desert zone (see Sect. VII).
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Walter, H. (1985). Zonobiome of the Subtropical Arid Climate with Deserts. In: Vegetation of the Earth and Ecological Systems of the Geo-biosphere. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96859-4_5
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