Vegetation, fauna and the processes of desertification
Owing to its climatic conditions Egypt has developed a desert flora through-
out with forms more adapted to the Mediterranean influence in the north. As
in other drylands of the world, this natural vegetation can tolerate extreme
heat and dryness as well as great variation in rainfall, the so-called high rainfall
variability. Among the adaptive mechanisms are reduced evapotranspiration,
as, for example, through small leaves and thorns,