ALN logo; link to Arid Lands Newsletter Home page No. 59, August 2007
What's so special about drylands?

Price: Figure 1: Sand ridge in the Simpson Desert

photograph of the Simpson Desert, Australia

A red sand ridge of the Simpson Desert, Australia, usually a very dry place. The hummock grass in the foreground is spinifex, Triodia basedowii . Image credit: Steven Strike, Outback Photographics, http://www.photoz.com.au; reproduced by permission.

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