Indigenous Plant Species from the Drylands of Iran, Distribution and Potential for Habitat Maintenance and Repair - Combating Desertification in Asia, Africa and the Middle East - page 353

Fig. 17.5 Tree and shrub seedlings are produced in irrigated nurseries that are protected by
windbreaks and have water available for supplementary irrigation
Fig. 17.6 Prevention of the wind erosion can be achieved by covering the surface with obstacles
that reduce wind velocity at the surface
pots. The most frequently used seedlings in stabilization of dunes are as follows:
Haloxylon spp. Ta m a r i x spp., Zygophyllum eurypterum , Stipagrostis pennuata ,
Calligonum spp., Calotropis procera , Atriplex spp., Acacia spp., Prosopis spicigera ,
Nitraria schoberi and Panicum spp. Dunes can be stabilized by a combination
of biological methods involving planting shrubs and grasses inside small areas
protected by pallisades (Figs. 17.8 and 17.9 ).