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As an Australian, living in the outback, I can safely say I have never heard of the 'Great Australian Desert', nor does the article it links to mention it, nor is it present in the reference given for 'The ten largest deserts table'. Request: Could 'Great Australian Desert' be removed from the table and be replaced with the 'Great Victoria desert' at a position that matches the reference given. Gehyra Australis ( talk) 03:33, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
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In the article Desert / Biogeography <
/info/en/?search=Desert#Biogeography> it is stated that "Cacti are restricted to North America", which is not correct as they are also present in South America <
/info/en/?search=Cactus#Distribution>.
I would suggest something like "Cacti are present in both North and South America, with a post-Gondwana origin". I am not a cactus specialist, but the error is evident. 200.199.130.68 ( talk) 18:20, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
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Regarding the first clause of the last sentence under Human Relations --> History:
Overgrazing is still considered a cause of desertification. The reference is a TED Talk whose presenter is distinguishing between that and "adequate" grazing. He argues that undergrazing is also a problem (though he doesn't say it in those words) because herds are needed to flatten tall grasses, which encourages "biological decay" (as opposed to oxidative decomposition) and creates a microclimate underneath, regulating temperature and retaining moisture. This results in new grassland growth next season, as opposed to favoring woody plants and leaving soil bare. (This was all in the TED Talk.)
All that to suggest my edit: "Although overgrazing is still considered to be a cause of desertification, there is some evidence that "planned grazing", actively managed with livestock, actually improves vegetation cover and land fertility and production. Livestock reduction or removal may actually encourage erosive processes."
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2001:8003:3DD2:BA00:DD6A:19A7:9354:57AA ( talk) 04:18, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
desert is a hot place
There's no single Arctic desert. There may be deserts in the Arctic region, but parts of the Arctic has more precipitation than the limit for deserts. This obviously means that the Arctic is not a single desert, never mind different regions are separated by open sea! The northern polar ice may seem like a desert, but it's over water, so it's not a desert by definition and the ice is not static or permanent. Now compare with the Afro-Asian desert belt. If we go by this idea that all of the Arctic landmass is a single desert, then this also must apply to the entire desert region in Africa and Asia, from Mauretania to China. 109.56.153.130 ( talk) 13:11, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
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Internal link for Dome C. -- 77.173.90.33 ( talk) 11:55, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
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"Mars is the only planet in the Solar System on which deserts have been identified." → "Mars is the only planet in the Solar System besides Earth on which deserts have been identified." The statement is technically inaccurate otherwise. 81.97.179.9 ( talk) 16:17, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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"the only other planet in the Solar System besides earth" → "the only other planet in the Solar System besides Earth", per MOS:CELESTIALBODIES. 148.252.24.230 ( talk) 21:30, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
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If a desert is a place with little precipitation, then large parts of the ocean would qualify (for example, off the coast of Senegal, hardly any rain falls). Is there a name for such places? 68.196.1.236 ( talk) 18:43, 14 August 2021 (UTC)captcrisis
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please change ((scarify)) to ((Scarification (botany)|scarify)) 98.239.227.65 ( talk) 01:46, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
Effects of climate change on deserts are not mentioned in this article. Should the article describe any of these effects, such as desertification? Jarble ( talk) 23:27, 29 February 2024 (UTC)