Abstract
The Negev Desert highlands of Israel cover a relatively small area but are important because they are part of the 6000 km northern belt of the Saharo-Arabian phytogeographic region. This area receives an annual average of 50 to 100 mm of rain in winter and is located in the largest hot desert of the world: the Saharo-Arabian Desert (Rudloff, 1981; Evenari, 1985) (Fig. 1.1). Also in the Negev the Saharo-Arabian phytogeographic region meets the very large Irano-Turanian phytogeographic arid region (Zohary, 1966; Shmida, 1985) (Figs. 1.2 - 1.4).
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Gutterman, Y. (2001). The Desert Biome. In: Regeneration of Plants in Arid Ecosystems Resulting from Patch Disturbance. Geobotany, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9630-5_1
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