Drivers and impacts of changes in China's drylands

C Li, B Fu, S Wang, LC Stringer, Y Wang, Z Li… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract China has 6.6 million km2 of drylands that support approximately 580 million
people. These drylands are at risk of desertification. In this Review, the changes observed in …

Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

J Huang, Y Li, C Fu, F Chen, Q Fu, A Dai… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drylands are home to more than 38% of the world's population and are one of the most
sensitive areas to climate change and human activities. This review describes recent …

Middle-range theories of land system change

P Meyfroidt, RR Chowdhury, A de Bremond… - Global environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century

JB Bradford, DR Schlaepfer, WK Lauenroth… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dryland ecosystems may be especially vulnerable to expected 21st century increases in
temperature and aridity because they are tightly controlled by moisture availability. However …

Prevalence and drivers of abrupt vegetation shifts in global drylands

M Berdugo, JJ Gaitán… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The constant provision of plant productivity is integral to supporting the liability of
ecosystems and human wellbeing in global drylands. Drylands are paradigmatic examples …

Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world

FT Maestre, DJ Eldridge, S Soliveres… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Understanding how drylands respond to ongoing environmental change is extremely
important for global sustainability. In this review, we discuss how biotic attributes, climate …

Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

P Smith, K Calvin, J Nkem, D Campbell… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a clear need for transformative change in the land management and food
production sectors to address the global land challenges of climate change mitigation …

Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

MC Duniway, AA Pfennigwerth, SE Fick… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Erosion by wind is one of the principal processes associated with land degradation in
drylands and is a significant concern to land managers and policymakers globally. In the …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

WK Smith, MP Dannenberg, D Yan, S Herrmann… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drylands make up roughly 40% of the Earth's land surface, and billions of people depend on
services provided by these critically important ecosystems. Despite their relatively sparse …