Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than ...

There are lots of different ecosystems on Earth:including desert ecosystems ... feed on decaying plant and animal life. When they do, they release healthy nutrients and gasses into the soil ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that ... actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of ...

Little rain falls in the Chihuahuan, but the Rio Grande River - known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico - flows through the desert, providing a lifeline for all these animal and plants ... of this all ...

the backbone of one of Asia’s most remarkable and unexpected ecosystems ... the mountains enable a diverse array of plant and animal life to thrive in a region that would otherwise be too ...