Problem
Threatened tropical desert habitats
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Endangered hot arid habitatsThreatened tropical semi-desert habitats
Background:
The principal tropical deserts are the Sahara and the Kalahari in Africa, the Sonoran in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, those of Australia, and those of Arabia, Iran and Pakistan in southwestern Asia. The tropical desert, or arid tropical climate, generally lies between 15ø and 30ø latitude where atmospheric circulation brings dry, subtropical air into mid-latitudes. Mean monthly temperatures in the summer reach well above 35øC, with extremes of more than 55øC. Only short grasses and desert shrubs survive in the dry tropics.
Broader Problems:
Threatened desert habitatsThreatened tropical habitats Narrower Problems:
Threatened tableland habitatsThreatened salt flats habitatsThreatened stony desert habitatsThreatened habitats of bare sandThreatened tropical desert scrub habitatsEnvironmental degradation of desert oasesThreatened permanent inland delta habitatsThreatened tropical extreme desert habitatsThreatened seasonal freshwater lake habitatsThreatened tropical sparse grassland habitatsThreatened seasonal inland saline lake habitatsThreatened xeromorphic dwarf-shrubland habitats Related Problems:
Threatened subtropical desert habitats Values:
AridEndangeredSparsityThreat Subject(s):
Climatology → Arid zonesClimatology → Tropical zones
Geography → Wild
Societal Problems → Endangered species
Societal Problems → Vulnerability
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
D: Detailed problems Date of last update
29.05.2019 – 17:25 CEST