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Desert pumpkinseed: diet composition and breadth in a Moroccan river
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2021 The widely invasive North American pumpkinseed sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus, is currently established in desert rivers in Morocco. The success of pumpkinseed in novel ecosystems has been associated with its generalist diet, but this trait remains ...
Gkenas Christos +4 more
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Plants, 2022 Despite the widespread occurrence of fungal endophytes (FE) in plants inhabiting arid ecosystems, the environmental and soil factors that modulate changes in FE diversity and community composition along an aridity gradient have been little explored.
María José Guevara-Araya +3 more
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Simulated changes in aridity from the last glacial maximum to 4xCO2
Environmental Research Letters, 2017 Aridity is generally defined as the ‘degree to which a climate lacks moisture to sustain life in terrestrial ecosystems’. Several recent studies using the ‘aridity index’ (the ratio of potential evaporation to precipitation), have concluded that aridity ...
Peter Greve +2 more
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Attribute Analysis of Aridity Variability in North Xinjiang, China
Advances in Meteorology, 2016 Identifying the dominant meteorological factors affecting aridity variability can improve our understanding of climate change and its future trend in arid and semiarid regions.
Yanfeng Wu +4 more
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Soil Constraints in an Arid Environment—Challenges, Prospects, and Implications
Agronomy, 2023 Climate models project that many terrestrial ecosystems will become drier over the course of this century, leading to a drastic increase in the global extent of arid soils. In order to decrease the effects of climate change on global food security, it is
Anandkumar Naorem +6 more
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ADVANCES IN CULTURAL TOURISM: TWO EXAMPLES FROM THE EMIRATE OF ABU DHABI (UAE) [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2020 The aim of this paper is analyzing desert remoteness as a potential competitive advantage for cultural tourism. In the emirate of Abu Dhabi, at least two destinations can capitalize on the perception of insularity, while at the same time offering high ...
Adriaan DE MAN
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GCB Bioenergy, 2023 Globally, we are facing an emerging climate crisis, with impacts to be notably felt in semiarid regions across the world. Cultivation of drought‐adapted succulent plants has been suggested as a nature‐based solution that could: (i) reduce land ...
Catherine E. Buckland +4 more
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Aridity in the Central and Southern Pannonian Basin
Atmosphere, 2020 For the investigation of geographical, monthly, seasonal, and annual distributions of aridity and its annual trend in the region of the Central and Southern Pannonian Basin (CSPB), which includes the territories of Hungary and Vojvodina (Northern Serbia),
Milivoj B. Gavrilov +13 more
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Aridity threshold in controlling ecosystem nitrogen cycling in arid and semi-arid grasslands [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2014 Higher aridity and more extreme rainfall events in drylands are predicted due to climate change. Yet, it is unclear how changing precipitation regimes may affect nitrogen (N) cycling, especially in areas with extremely high aridity. Here we investigate soil N isotopic values (δ(15)N) along a 3,200 km aridity gradient and reveal a hump-shaped ...
Wang, Chao +13 more
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Drivers, timing and some impacts of global aridity change
Environmental Research Letters, 2018 The modeled robustness of the aridity response to climate change has already been well established: global drylands are expanding as increases in potential evapotranspiration outpace precipitation increases.
Megan Lickley, Susan Solomon
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