Global desertification vulnerability to climate change and human activities

J Huang, G Zhang, Y Zhang, X Guan… - Land Degradation & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Desertification is the impoverishment of arid, semiarid, and some subhumid ecosystems.
The assessment of global scale desertification vulnerability to climate change and human …

Climate change impacts on water security in global drylands

LC Stringer, A Mirzabaev, TA Benjaminsen… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Water scarcity affects 1–2 billion people globally, most of whom live in drylands. Under
projected climate change, millions more people will be living under conditions of severe …

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 …

Chemical sand stabilization: A review of material, mechanism, and problems

YX Zang, W Gong, H Xie, BL Liu… - Environmental …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Chemical sand stabilization has potential for desertification control and this method is
characterized by its speed and convenience in operation compared with other stabilization …

[HTML][HTML] Driving factors of desertification in Qaidam Basin, China: An 18-year analysis using the geographic detector model

J Han, J Wang, L Chen, J Xiang, Z Ling, Q Li… - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Qaidam Basin is a cornucopia of salt mineral resources in China, but
desertification in the basin has seriously impacted residents' lives and economic …

The grass is not always greener on the other side: Seasonal reversal of vegetation greenness in aspect‐driven semiarid ecosystems

N Kumari, PM Saco, JF Rodriguez… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Our current understanding of semiarid ecosystems is that they tend to display higher
vegetation greenness on polar‐facing slopes (PFS) than on equatorial‐facing slopes (EFS) …

Monitoring desertification processes using ecological indicators and providing management programs in arid regions of Iran

M Akbari, MJ Shalamzari, H Memarian, A Gholami - Ecological indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Desertification is a serious and perilous threat to natural ecosystems. Understanding the
spatio-temporal characteristics of this process through the evaluation and monitoring of …

Monitoring land sensitivity to desertification in Central Asia: Convergence or divergence?

L Jiang, A Bao, G Jiapaer, H Guo, G Zheng… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In Central Asia, desertification risk is one of the main environmental and
socioeconomic issues; thus, monitoring land sensitivity to desertification is an extremely …

Satellite monitoring the spatial-temporal dynamics of desertification in response to climate change and human activities across the Ordos Plateau, China

Q Guo, B Fu, P Shi, T Cudahy, J Zhang, H Xu - Remote sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
The Ordos Plateau, a typical semi-arid area in northern China, has experienced severe wind
erosion events that have stripped the agriculturally important finer fraction of the topsoil and …

Spatial and temporal dynamics of desertification and its driving mechanism in Hexi region

J Zhang, Q Guan, Q Du, F Ni, J Mi… - Land Degradation & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Investigating the spatio‐temporal patterns of desertification and its driving mechanisms is
crucial for efforts to improve the ecology and environment and combat desertification. Based …