Description of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Program and links to data sets and information about the estuary and salt marsh ecology in coastal Georgia.

The mission of the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute is to promote public awareness, appreciation, and concern for the natural diversity of the Chihuahuan Desert region through research and education. To achieve this mission, the Institute provides environmental education to the community, encourages biodiversity conservation, and promotes and demonstrates sustainable development in the desert.

Deserts and other drylands constitute more than 40% of the global land area. Global environmental changes such as global warming and further desertification of drylands threaten 900 million people in 100 countries. The goal of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR) is to carry out research on the desert environment, required for promoting sustainable uses of the Negev Desert and other drylands the

The Cabeza Prieta Natural History Association is an educational and charitable organization located in the heart of the spectacular Sonoran Desert in Ajo, Arizona. The Association is dedicated to stimulating interest in and providing knowledge about the natural history of the Sonoran Desert as well as the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, which is home to many rare and endangered desert plants and animals.

How Do Plants Survive the Desert? - Desert plants have adapted to the extremes of heat and aridity by using both physical and behavioral mechanisms, much like desert animals. The ingenuity and variety of these many adaptations are explored in Desert Plant Survival and the Desert Food Chain.

What is a desert? - Water, or more accurately the lack of water, is what defines a desert. In general terms deserts are dry places. The standard definition is an area that receives less than 10 inches of rain a year, and whose yearly evaporation rate exceeds 10 inches.

The mission of the New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council (NMRPTC) is to form a current and accurate list of New Mexico's rare plants and to provide the best information available from the literature and personal experiences of council members on their distributions, ecology, and conservation status.

The Sahara Desert, covering most of North Africa, is the largest desert in the world. From north to south the Sahara is between 800 and 1,200 miles and is at least 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west. Due to the massive size of the Sahara, Africa is split into two regions: that which lies above or forms part of the Sahara and the rest of Africa south of the Sahara. On the west, the Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by the Red Sea, and to the north are the Atlas Mountains and Mediterranean Sea.

The Atacama Desert of Chile is a sparsely populated virtually rainless plateau, running from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes Mountains. The average width is less than 100 miles but it extends 600 miles south from the Peruvian border. The mountains nearest the ocean are the Pacific coastal range, with an average elevation of 2500 feet. The Cordillera Domeyko, a range of foothills of the Andes Mountains, lies east. The Atacama is made up of salt basins (salars) sand and lava flows. The landscape is so desolate it is sometimes described as "moon like".

Diana E. Northup - Geomicrobiology and microbiology of Lechuguilla, Spider, Cueva de Villa Luz (Cueva de las Sardinas), and other caves. Diana is also the Biology and Chemistry librarian at Centennial Science and Engineering Library at the University of New Mexico.