Date of Award

5-1980

Degree Type

Report

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Ecology

Committee Chair(s)

Brien E. Norton

Committee

Brien E. Norton

Committee

John Malechek

Committee

Derrick Thom

Abstract

The southern arid fringe of the Sahara Desert, called the Sahel, is progressively becoming less productive through a systematic deterioration of the environment. Population increases and technological advances have encouraged ecological degradation through man's normal activities for survival. The degradation process has been referred to as desertification, desertization, desert encroachment, and desert creep.

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