Includes community-level topics relevant to human impacts on vegetation, including global change, nature conservation, nature management, restoration of plant communities, habitats of threatened plant species, and the planning of semi-natural and urban landscapes.
Topics include arid land ecology, including flora and fauna, soil chemistry, biology, physics, and other edaphic aspects. The journal emphasizes recovery of degraded lands and practical, appropriate uses of soils. Formerly Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation. Continued by Arid Land Research and Management after 2000. (Limited access.)
Covers the applications of biogeographical principles, theories, and analyses to problems concerning the conservation of biodiversity. Continued by Diversity and Distributions after 1996.
