**Meet the editor**

Dr. Levente Hufnagel is an associate professor and senior researcher at Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary, in climate change and ecosystem ecology, biogeography, biometrics, and ecological research methodology, with over 20 years of experience at leading Hungarian academic institutions teaching PhD, MSc and BSc students from various social and cultural backgrounds. He

has more than 160 scientific publications (in both aquatic and terrestrial ecological aspects of plants, animals and microbes, at community as well as population level) and more than 700 independent citations. As a participant of several big ecological research and development projects, Dr. Hufnagel has significant experience in multidisciplinary cooperations (with more than 180 coauthors in different publications). As the supervisor of several PhD, BSc and MSc theses, and as editor-in-chief of an international scientific journal indexed by Web of Science and Scopus, Dr. Hufnagel has wide supervising and editing experience. He graduated from Eötvös Lorand University with his Masters degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and PhD degree in Hydrobiology, he also graduated from Szent István University with a PhD degree in Agricultural Science.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Homoródi

Duanyang Xu

Lamia Medini-Bouaziz

Muhammad Saleem Chang

**Desertification Land 83**

Li Xingcai

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Global Aspects and Scientific Importance**

Chapter 2 **The Impact of Desertification Dynamics on Regional Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Inner Mongolia (China) 11**

Chapter 3 **Behavioral and Reproductive Strategies of Porcellio Species (Oniscidea) in Tunisian Pre-Desert Ecosystems 29**

Chapter 4 **Ecological and Environmental Assessment of Nara Desert**

Chapter 5 **Sand Electrification Possibly Affects the Plant Physiology in**

**Wetland Complex (NDWC), Khairpur, Sindh-Pakistan 55**

Levente Hufnagel, Ferenc Mics, Melinda Pálinkás and Réka

**of Desert Ecological Research 1**
