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Most of the arid zones of the world have undergone vast ecological changes over the last five decades due to escalation of human population and alteration in landuse pattern. As a consequence of the human intervention in desert environments, their biodiversity is also changing. The earlier ecologists who have carried out researches on typical deserticolous elements are the pioneers. Prof. John Leonard Cloudsley-Thompson is one of those who initiated research on the fauna of MiddleEast and has builtup a school of desert biology. John is attaining the age of 80 years and we thought it appropriate to felicitate him by publishing a Festschrift. This compendium contains 28 articles contributed by John s, colleagues, acquaintances and friends from all over the world. The chapters are spread over a wide spectrum of subjects like climate, grasslands, ecology and physiology of invertebrates and vertebrates. It is expected that this multiauthored treatise will be quite beneficial for the students of desert ecology and we earnestly hope that this assemblage of arid zone subjects will be a fitting Honour to John, the last ``Titan of the Sahara Desert as one of the Authors has called him.

Preamble - Ishwar Prakash
An Eminent Biologist - John L. Cloudsley-Thompson - Ishwar Prakash
About Professor Cloudsley-Thompson and a certain directional shift - C.S. Crawford
J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson - The last Titan of the Sahara desert
- El-Amin El Rayan Mohamed
A List of important books

1. From information to knowledge; to what extent do biology and ecology textbooks keep up to date? - Ian F. Spellerberg
2. Transfrontier Reserves for Peace and Nature: Saving Two Birds with One Stone - Arthur H. Westing
3. Aridity and Development : A Comparison Between the Mediterranean and Tropical Arid Zones North and South of the Sahara - Henry N. Le Hou‚rou
4. The Nile basin : Present and Future climates - M. Kassas
5. Maasai transhumance in the Kenyan Rift Valley in relation to forage production and effective rainfall for annual grasslands - A.D.Q. Agnew, S. Roderick, P. Stevenson and J. Ndungu
6. Impact of cattle grazing on native perennial grasses in the arid rangelands of the Mendoza plain, Argentina - J.C. Guevara, J.M. Gonnet and O.R. Estevez
7. Aridity and plant survival in desert environments - Osama H. Sayed
8. Dynamics of ephemeral plants in the coastal desert of north- central Chile- Julio R. Guti‚rrez
9. Plant-Geography as an aid to Conservation - V.M. Meher-Homji
10. The genus Streptomyces : A rich source of novel phytotoxins - Robert E. Hoagland
11. Taxonomic considerations on the genera Butheolus Simon, Nanobuthus Pocock and Neobuthus Hirst (Scorpions, Buthidae) with the description of a new species of Neobuthus from Ethiopia - Wilson R. Loureneo
12. Change of posture and web destruction in response to heat in Leucauge sp. (Araneae : Tetragnathidae) in Ghana - Janet Edmunds and Malcolm Edmunds
13. Description of some interesting, new or little known Pholcidae (Araneae) from Yemen - C.L. Deeleman-Reinhold and A. van Harten
14. Man-made opportunities for Neotropical ectoparasites - David E. Evans
Allometry, phenology and biomass of C. caifanum (Diplopoda : Iulidae) population in a pine forest in Northern Israel - Olga Gealekman, Yelena Tichomirova and M.R. Warburg
16. On the dragonfly fauna of Khartoum with particular emphasis on larval forms - El Amin El Rayah Mohamed and Nihad Gubara Abd El Rahman
17. Temperature reactions of desert Tenebrionid beetles - Faysal T. Abushama
18. Thermal ecology and seasonal activity patterns of Erodius sauditus an Arabian dune beetle (Tenebrionidae : Erodinae) - Michael D. Robinson and David A. Clayton
19. High altitude chrysomelidae - Pierre Jolivet
20. Realized ant assemblages in the Namib, Kalahari and Kara-kum desert - Harold Heatwole
21. Invertebrates : their effects on the properties and processes of desert ecosystems - Walter G. Whitford
22. The reminiscences of a botanist on animalia in Tropical Africa - G.E. Wickens
23. Thermobiology of Armadillo officinalis and Hemilepistus reaumuri (Isopoda : Oniscidea) in Benghazi, Libya - G. Achuthan Nair, Abdalla I. Mohamed and Keshab Chandra Bhuyan
24. Ants and Scats: Do they predict the abundance of coast horned lizard, Phrynosoma coronatum ? - Bayard H. Brattstrom
25. Significance of seasonal breeding in arid adapted antelope in Southern Africa - J.D. Skinner and D.C. Skinner
26. Rodents in desert environments : Is density dynamics really correlated with annual rainfall fluctuations? - Georgy Shenbrot and Boris Krasnov
27. Animal ecophysiology in the Namib desert : Coping with little water, scarce food and elevated temperatures - Joh R. Henschel, Mark B. Robertson and Mary K. Seely
28. Survival Strategies of Desert Vertebrates - Ishwar Prakash