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Effects of Stand Structure of Artificial Shelter Forest on Understory Herb Diversity in Desert-Oasis Ecotone

Diversity, 2023
The relationship between the spatial structure of shelter forests and the diversity of understory herbaceous plants in desert–oasis ecotones is important for maintaining biodiversity indices and protecting the oasis ecosystem.
Yan Yang, Zhengli Zhou, Liuji Shen, Yachong Zhao, Yuansheng Tang, Jiahe Tian   +5 more
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Assessment of Value Changes and Spatial Differences in Land Use Based on an Empirical Survey in the Manas River Basin

Land, 2021
Land integration is an important means of increasing the multifunctional value of arable land. The scientific measurement of the integrative value of arable land before and after land consolidation can improve farmers’ overall understanding of the value ...
Xin Yan, Yuejian Wang, Na Liao, Hailiang Xu, Zili Fan   +4 more
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Determining the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the ecosystem multifunctionality in a desert-oasis ecotone

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Questions: Differences in the vertical structures of communities, nutrient cycling, multiple diversity attributes, and environmental factors are important forces driving ecosystem multifunctionality.
Hengfang Wang, Guanghui Lv, Yan Cai, Xueni Zhang, Lamei Jiang, Xiaodong Yang   +5 more
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Downscaling Land Surface Temperature in an Arid Area by Using Multiple Remote Sensing Indices with Random Forest Regression

Remote Sensing, 2017
Many downscaling algorithms have been proposed to address the issue of coarse-resolution land surface temperature (LST) derived from available satellite-borne sensors.
Yingbao Yang, Chen Cao, Xin Pan, Xiaolong Li, Xi Zhu   +4 more
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Analysis of the Characteristics and Cause Analysis of Soil Salt Space Based on the Basin Scale

Applied Sciences, 2022
The analysis of water-soluble salts in the soil is an important basic work for the development and research of the salinity monitoring and salinization control of saline soils, aiming at the complexity of the development of soil salinization in oases in ...
Li Lu, Sheng Li, Yuan Gao, Yanyan Ge, Yun Zhang   +4 more
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Decade-long unsustainable vegetation management practices increase macronutrient losses from the plant-soil system in the Taklamakan Desert

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Arid ecosystems are characterized by low availability and mobility of soil nutrients and slow geochemical cycles. Management of native vegetation in such ecosystems for fuel, livestock grazing, and other agricultural activities (burning and cutting) may ...
Akash Tariq, Corina Graciano, Jordi Sardans, Abd Ullah, Fanjiang Zeng, Ihteram Ullah, Zeeshan Ahmed, Sikandar Ali, Dhafer A. Al-Bakre, Zhihao Zhang, Yanfu Bai, Weiqi Wang, Josep Peñuelas   +12 more
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Fine Soil Texture Is Conducive to Crop Productivity and Nitrogen Retention in Irrigated Cropland in a Desert-Oasis Ecotone, Northwest China

Agronomy, 2022
Agricultural production in oases requires extensive irrigation and nitrogen (N) inputs, which result in a high incidence of non-point-source pollution. Information on how soil texture affects crop productivity and water and N use efficiency is needed to ...
Lisha Wang, Zhibin He, Wenzhi Zhao, Chuan Wang, Dengke Ma   +4 more
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Integrative assessment and management implications on loss of ecosystem services value of desert-oasis ecotone due to artificial oasis expansion

Global Ecology and Conservation
The ecosystem services value (ESV) is essential for preventing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. The expansion of artificial oases has led to a decrease in ESV in the desert-oasis ecotone of arid regions.
Xinxin Li, Donglei Mao, Jie Xue, Shunke Wang, Jingjing Chang, Xin Liu   +5 more
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Simulation model of vegetation dynamics by combining static and dynamic data using the gated recurrent unit neural network-based method

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2022
The simulation of vegetation dynamics is essential for guiding regional ecological remediation and environmental management. Recent progress in deep learning methods has provided possible solutions to vegetation simulations. The gated recurrent unit (GRU)
Pu Zhang, Zhipeng Li, Heyu Zhang, Jie Ding, Xufeng Zhang, Rui Peng, Yiming Feng   +6 more
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Estimating Deep Drainage Using Deep Soil Moisture Data under Young Irrigated Cropland in a Desert-Oasis Ecotone, Northwest China

Vadose Zone Journal, 2019
Deep drainage reduces agricultural water productivity under cropland recently converted from native desert soils (i.e., young cropland) and increases the risks of nutrient and pesticide leaching into groundwater in the desert-oasis ecotone.
Yongyong Zhang, Wenzhi Zhao, Tyson E. Ochsner, Briana M. Wyatt, Hu Liu, Qiyue Yang   +5 more
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