Wind also affects the ecosystem of desert areas, where strong air currents in desert regions cause wind erosion and the phenomena of moving dunes (Wiggs et al., 1995, 2001). The scarce plant distribution in deserts provides little protection from wind-soil erosion forces. In addition to uprooting and sometimes covering pioneering plants, wind-driven soil transport reduces the nutrient content of soils. In New Mexico, aeolian transport of soil was shown to reduce organic carbon and nitrogen in the ground by 25% (Junran et al., 2007).