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Time for an update! After meeting up with Hadi yesterday, I spent this morning briefing the rangers on the methods we will be using in the study. Simple questions, such […]
Time for an update! After meeting up with Hadi yesterday, I spent this morning briefing the rangers on the methods we will be using in the study. Simple questions, such […]
Pastoral farming in Dhofar is made possible by the favourable climatic conditions caused by the Indian monsoon. From June to September low cloud and mist form against the southern mountain […]
Socio-ecological coincidence of livestock grazing activity with biodiversity distributions at Wadi Sayq, Dhofar Governorate, Oman The unique and biodiverse ecosystems of the Dhofar Mountains are threatened by large numbers of […]
Click here to read Part 1… During the winters of 2012 and 2013 I spent a total of 10 weeks exploring a vast wadi system in the Dhofar Province of […]
During the winters of 2012 and 2013 I spent a total of 10 weeks exploring a vast wadi system in the Dhofar Province of Oman; known as Wadi Sayq. The […]
BIOSPHERE Magazine In the Mountains of Oman – In the field, with Lawrence Derek Ball Grazing threatening Dhofar Mountains ecosystem Wadi Sayq in Southern west of Oman an […]
Ball L, Tzanopoulos J (2020) Six new variants of the Terminalia cloud forest in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman, Phytocoenologia, doi: 10.1127/phyto/2020/0370 Ball L, MacMillan D, Tzanopoulos J, Spalton A, […]
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. Charles Darwin Accurately estimating the number of different species […]
I have always been a bit obsessed with the natural world and the outdoors. Much of my childhood was spent in the woods next to our home or in rockpools […]
A couple more Omani newspaper articles about the British Exploring Society Oman expeditions and the research we have undertaken in Wadi Sayq, Dhofar over the last couple of years. […]