United Nations Convention to combat Desertification Home page. Reports and documents relating to the World's Deserts. Fairly dry content.
URL: http://www.unccd.int/main.php [metadata]The World's desert habitats and animals. There is a comparison table of the features of the main Deserts as well as excellent clip art of Desert life. All animals are labelled except for the Horse with no name.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml [metadata]From FreeDictionary.Com. Excellent overview of the world's deserts, with entries on most regions as well as flora and fauna and environmental issues. Includes Australian Desert articles including Simpson Desert Great Sandy Desert Sturt's Stony Desert, Tanami Desert Great Victoria Desert Big Desert and Little Desert. In fact, just Desserts.
URL: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/desert [metadata]CAZR provides research on Australias aridity and Desertification. Research focus areas include sustainable pastoral industry. Biodiversity and Desert Land use are also covered.
URL: http://www.cazr.csiro.au/home.htm [metadata]Worldwide database enabling graphic presentation of either one location, including Australia or a comparison of two locations. Parameters include temperature, precipitation and drought.
URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/onlineprod/drought/xmgr.html [metadata]World Atlas of The Earth. Overviews on each type of ecosystem including Deserts, environmental issues and case studies from around the world. Also available as an animated Flash site.
URL: http://atlas.aaas.org/index.php?part=2 [metadata]A guide to traveling and surviving Desert areas including the Simpson Desert, Gibb River Road and the Birdsville Track. Featured vehicles are Toyota Landcrushers and Nissan Payrolls.
URL: http://www.exploroz.com/ [metadata]Desert Biome: what causes Deserts, Types of Deserts, Desert animals and plants and Deserts of the world. Includes Desert Food such as the Sandwiches there.
URL: http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/desert/index.htm [metadata]