Understanding the climatically suitable habitat of species plays a vital role in sustainable use and management target species. Calligonum mongolicum Turcz., native shrub found desert areas Central Asia, is generally considered as one top four tree for desertification control. However, previous works on simulation had focused mainly either national or specific geographical scales rather than en...

Determination of forage quality of plant species in natural habitats such as rangelands and deserts is one of the most important factors for grazing management of these ecosystems. For this purpose, the nutritional values of Calligonum comosum in three phenological stages (vegetative growth, flowering, and seedling) were determined in desert habitats located in the northeast of Kashan, Iran (in...

Nutrient allocation closely correlates plant functional traits and development to ecosystem supply services. Desert shrubs maintain the stability of desert ecosystems, whereas knowledge how they coordinate nutrients among organs is still limited when responding differing nitrogen (N) water regimes. Here we investigated allocation, composition, variability nine elements within Alhagi sparsifolia...

The arid Western Rajasthan, where the Thar Desert of India is immersed, is mostly covered by sand dunes, a common landscape. The region has confronted with fragilities of natural resources, low, erratic and ill-distributed rainfall, and is covered up with many perennial hardy shrubs. Calligonumpolygonoides, the most common perennial shrub, is widely present in some localities of this Thar Deser...