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Remote Sensing, 2021 The 4D disasters (desertification, drought, dust, and dzud, a Mongolian term for severe winter weather) have recently been increasing in Mongolia, and their impacts on the livelihoods of humans has likewise increased.
Reiji Kimura, Masao Moriyama
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Nitrogen addition has a minor effect on aridity thresholds for soil nematodes at the global scale
GeodermaSoil nematodes are regulated by soil moisture, with a global aridity threshold identified for total nematode diversity. Nitrogen (N) deposition also influences soil nematodes, but its effect on their aridity threshold remains unclear.
Yifei Peng, Ruibo Zhang, Jinsong Wang
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Estimating Grazing Index Values for Plants from Arid Regions [PDF]
Journal of Range Management, 2000 The Ecological Index Method impacted directly on the estimation of grazing capacities in the Karoo, an arid region in South Africa. Due to inherent deficiencies in the ecological index method, index values formed a disjunct series, 10, 7, 4, and 1 and the fact that different value systems were employed to score plant species, necessitated that index ...
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A simple framework to characterize land aridity based on surface energy partitioning regimes
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Land aridity is often characterized by the aridity index (AI), which does not account for land surface water-energy interactions that are crucially important in determining regional climate.
Qing He +6 more
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ARIDITY INDEX AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN GEO-ECOLOGICAL STUDY [PDF]
Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 2004 The aridity Index (AI, here defined as the climatic aridity) is an index tha t de scribes the dry and wet conditions of a site. Historically, the AI has been ofte n used in long-term studies of geography and ecology. Recently it has became one of the most frequently used climatic factors in studies of global change, espec ially in studies of climate ...
MENG Meng NI Jian* and ZHANG Zhi-Guo +2 more
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AtmosphereUnder the context of global climate change, aridity responses exhibit significant differences across various latitudinal zones, and quantifying the dependency relationship between aridity and latitudinal zones is of great importance for differentiated ...
Liping Shan +6 more
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Plants, 2022 The rangelands of Crete island (Greece) are typical Mediterranean habitats under high risk of degradation due to long-term grazing and harsh climatic conditions.
Maria Karatassiou +3 more
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A copula‐based index for drought analysis in arid and semi‐arid regions of Iran
Natural Resource Modeling, 2019 AbstractThe copula functions are frequently used by researchers for modeling dependence structure among the correlated attributes in many areas. The copulas are widely used for the analysis of drought frequency, drought characteristics, drought coincidence risk, uncertainty, and drought forecasting.
Ommolbanin Bazrafshan +2 more
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Climatic water indices for viticulture [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2018 : The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of vineyard water indices in different grape-growing regions. The climate data used come from the historical series of weather stations located in 18 countries.
Marco Antônio Fonseca Conceição +2 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A food‐grade cooling composite made from starch and recycled eggshell powder offers a scalable, ultra‐low‐cost solution for passive daytime radiative cooling. Easily prepared using basic kitchen tools, this material empowers communities, even in areas with limited infrastructure, to stay cooler during worsening summer heat waves.
Qimeng Song +3 more
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