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## **Preface XI**


Preface

cal research.

frontiers of desert ecological research.

cation. Each chapter is unique and interesting.

This book, Community and Global Ecology of Deserts, gives an interesting overview of the

Our book consists of five chapters: the first about the global aspects and scientific impor‐ tance of desert ecological research, the second about a case study in connection with deserti‐ fication dynamics and ecosystem services, the third about special zoological research about an arthropoda species, the fourth about ecological and environmental assessment of desert wetland complex, and the fifth about a very special plant-ecological impact of sand electrifi‐

I am sure that this book will be very useful for everybody – researchers, teachers, students or others interested in the field - who would like to gain insight into modern desert ecologi‐

> **Levente Hufnagel, PhD habil** Szent István University Gödöllő, Hungary
