Chapter 1 Sabkha ecosystem and halophyte plant communities in Saudi Arabia

Chapter 2 An overview of the halophytes in Turkey

Chapter 3 The biogeography of the coastal vegetation of the Abu Dhabi gulf Coast

Chapter 4 The sabkha vegetation of the United Arab Emirates

Chapter 5 Desertification and sabkhat formation in the Aral Sea region

Chapter 6 Biodiversity of halophytic and sabkha ecosystems in Iran

Chapter 7 The micro-organisms of sabkhat in Qatar

Chapter 8 Soil salinization and floodplain ecosystems of south-west Turkmenistan

Chapter 9 Economic halophytes of Bahrain

Chapter 10 The main regularities of dust-salt transference in the desert zone of Kazakhstan

Chapter 11 Halophytes of Pakistan: characteristics, distribution and potential economic usages

Chapter 12 Floristic composition of a threatened Mediterranean sabkhat of Sinai

Chapter 13 Salt lake area, northeastern part of Dukhan Sabkha, Qatar

Chapter 14 Salinization processes and sabkhat formation in the valleys and ancient deltas of the Murgab and Tedgen rivers in Central Asia

Chapter 15 Properties and functioning of pedolithogenic complexes of soils, rocks and waters of the forest steppe of Western Siberia

Chapter 16 Natural, geographical, halogeochemical and soil features of Western Siberia

Chapter 17 Sabkhat regions of Iraq

Chapter 18 The dynamics of halophyte ecosystems in the zone of impact of Kapchagai reservoir (Kazakhstan)

Chapter 19 Landscape ecology and cartographical analysis of natural salt complexes in the south west Siberia Basins of Lake Chany and Lake Kulundinskoye

Chapter 20 Salinity of irrigated lands of Uzbekistan: causes and present state