Date of Award
5-1973
Degree Type
Report
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Ecology
Committee Chair(s)
John C Malechek
Committee
John C Malechek
Abstract
The area north of latitude 14° north in the Sudan is characterized by unreliable precipitation patterns and a high incidence of a drouth period following the first rain of the "rainy season." In this region it is not uncommon to have a completely dry year without a single rain shower. The damage occurring to the plant cover when a drouth period follows the first rain is great. This is especially the case for the annual plant species in that such precipitation distribution patterns tend to exhaust the seed supply in the soil and do not supply adequate moisture for seed germination. This factor has largely been responsible for development of sparse vegetal cover consisting mainly of shrubs with an occasional understory of early maturing annuals that are evident in years with a good rainy season.
Recommended Citation
Iskander, Farid D., "Range Improvement by Waterspreading in the Gash Delta, Kassala Province: Democratic Republic of the Sudan" (1973). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 982.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/982
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