Spatiotemporal characterization of current and future droughts in the High Atlas basins (Morocco)
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DOI: 10.1007/s00704-018-2388-6
Abstract: Over the past decades, drought has become a major concern in Morocco due to the importance of agriculture in the economy of the country. In the present work, the standardized precipitation index (SPI) is used… read more here.
Keywords: high atlas; precipitation; droughts high; spatiotemporal characterization ... See more keywords
Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains
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DOI: 10.1007/s10745-021-00248-7
Abstract: Smallholder farmers are important managers of global crop diversity. However, agricultural modernization is changing farming practices and raising questions about the socio-ecological factors that support crop diversity. In the context of the semi-arid High Atlas… read more here.
Keywords: atlas mountains; crop diversity; crop; high atlas ... See more keywords
Barremian intracontinental rift and Aptian Atlantic transgression in the northern boundary of the Central High Atlas (Morocco)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.104094
Abstract: Abstract The northern boundary of the Central High Atlas was affected by a transgression during the Aptian that reached the junction zone between the Middle and the High Atlas. In this sector (Naour-Aghbala) which corresponds… read more here.
Keywords: aptian atlantic; high atlas; transgression; boundary central ... See more keywords
Controls on dryland mountain landscape development along the NW Saharan desert margin: Insights from Quaternary river terrace sequences (Dadès River, south-central High Atlas, Morocco)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.04.017
Abstract: Abstract This study documents river terraces from upstream reaches of the Dades River, a major fluvial system draining the south-central High Atlas Mountains. Terraces occur as straths with bedrock bases positioned at 10 m altitudinal intervals… read more here.
Keywords: terrace; river; high atlas; landscape development ... See more keywords
Nowhere to swim to: climate change and conservation of the relict Dades trout Salmo multipunctata in the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco
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DOI: 10.1017/s0030605316001551
Abstract: Abstract Montane biota is vulnerable to climate change, especially in the case of relict species in environmentally extreme areas. The Dades trout Salmo multipunctata is a relict species from the Draa basin, on the southern… read more here.
Keywords: atlas mountains; high atlas; salmo multipunctata; climate change ... See more keywords
Different species of Bradyrhizobium from symbiovars genistearum and retamae nodulate the endemic Retama dasycarpa in the High Atlas Mountains.
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DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad038
Abstract: Retama dasycarpa is an endemic Retama species native to the cold semi-arid bioclimates of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. In this work, we analyzed the diversity of the microsymbionts nodulating this plant and their… read more here.
Keywords: dasycarpa; high atlas; endemic retama; retama ... See more keywords