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January 1, 2024
The phenomenon of desertification involves the loss of biological or economic productivity and biodiversity in arid and semiarid croplands, pastures, rangelands, and subhumid woodlands due mainly to nonsustainable human activities, such as overcultivation, ...
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January 1, 2023
The hybrid Markov-cellular automaton model simulates vegetation dynamics as a spatially and temporally discrete system. Temporal dynamics are controlled by the transition probabilities among these states, whereas spatial dynamics are controlled by local ru ...
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March 16, 2022
Desertification and land degradation (DLD) are considered major global change issues. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) contends that “desertification affects as much as one-sixth of the world's population, seventy percent of all ...
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March 1, 2013
An important part of ecological research has been devoted to understand and predict how plant species and assemblages respond to changes in the availability and spatiotemporal heterogeneity of resources like water, light and nutrients. In the natural world ...
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2013
The book provides state-of-the-art knowledge on drylands ecosystem dynamics, climate changes, and land use in DEA. With contributions from international experts, the book will be of interest both to researchers and students. ...
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January 1, 2013
The phenomenon of desertification involves the loss of biological or economic productivity and biodiversity in arid and semiarid croplands, pastures, rangelands, and subhumid woodlands due mainly to nonsustainable human activities, such as overcultivation, ...
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January 1, 2009
The first part of this paper provides the rationale for approaching desertification by integrating biophysical and socio-economic data. We start with a brief overview of the causes and consequences of land degradation in global drylands, with an emphasis o ...
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January 1, 2006
Drylands are regions of the globe where the index of aridity (IA)-defined as the ratio of mean annual precipitation (P) to mean annual potential evapotranspiration (PET)-is less than 0.65 (see Chapters 1 and 8). If we restrict IA to the range of 0.05 to 0. ...
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