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Long-term impact of Haloxylon ammodendron plantations on the trophic structure of ground arthropods in a desert–oasis ecotone

Global Ecology and Conservation
Haloxylon ammodendron plantations are crucial for dune stabilization and sand movement control in arid desert-oasis ecotones, effectively safeguarding oasis ecosystems.
Chengchen Pan, Ziting Wang, Yongzhen Wang, Chongzhao Zhao, Ruixue Niu, Feng Yuan, Yaling Liu, Ji-Liang Liu   +7 more
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Shifting sands to sustainable soils: Spatial dynamics of soil water and salinity in a desert oasis ecotone

Agricultural Water Management
Understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of soil moisture and salinity dynamics and their governing factors is essential for predicting salinization risks and developing mitigation strategies in arid agricultural landscapes.
Qiqi Cao, Tao Liu, Jiangbao Xia, Junran Li, Sujith Ravi, Zhiming Xin, Huijie Xiao   +6 more
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Groundwater Depth Drives Carbon Pools and Population Dynamics in Deep-Rooted Desert Plants of a Hyper-Arid Ecosystem. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Groundwater depth shaped A. sparsifolia density and individual biomass. Carbon pools aided population persistence but couldn't offset deep groundwater's negative impact. Groundwater limits exceeded climate effects on desert vegetation persistence.
Huang C, Ma Z, Zhang B, Zeng F, Zhang S.
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Comprehensive evaluation on the ecological function of groundwater in the Shiyang River watershed

Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering, 2021
With an arid climate and shortage of water resources, the groundwater dependent ecosystems in the oasis–desert ecotone of the Shiyang River Watershed has been extremely damaged, and the water crisis in the oasis has become a major concern in the social ...
Min Liu, Zhen-long Nie, Le Cao, Li-fang Wang, Hui-xiong Lu, Zhe Wang, Pu-cheng Zhu   +6 more
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Water resources assessment and management in drylands [PDF]

, 2016
Drylands regions of the world face difficult issues in maintaining water resources to meet current demands which will intensify in the future with population increases, infrastructure development, increased agricultural water demands, and climate change ...
Koch, Magaly, Missimer, Thomas M.
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Validation of SWEEP for creep, saltation, and suspension in a desert–oasis ecotone [PDF]

Aeolian Research, 2016
Abstract Wind erosion in the desert–oasis ecotone can accelerate desertification, but little is known about the susceptibility of the ecotone to wind erosion in the Tarim Basin despite being a major source of windblown dust in China. The objective of this study was to test the performance of the Single-event Wind Erosion Evaluation Program (SWEEP) in
Pi, H., Sharratt, B., Feng, G., Lei, J., Li, X., Zheng, Z.   +5 more
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Spatiotemporal evolution of aeolian dust in China: An insight into the synoptic records of 1984–2020 and nationwide practices to combat desertification

Land Degradation &Development, Volume 34, Issue 7, Page 2005-2023, 30 April 2023., 2023
Abstract Aeolian dust is closely related to land degradation, desertification, and sand and dust storm weather, and is a significant factor influencing the Earth's biogeochemical cycles. Here we present an investigation of the recent synoptic features of atmospheric dust in China and analyze its spatiotemporal change based upon meteorological ...
Xiao‐Xiao Zhang, Jia‐Qiang Lei, Shi‐Xin Wu, Sheng‐Yu Li, Lian‐You Liu, Zi‐Fa Wang, Shuang‐Yan Huang, Yu‐Hong Guo, Yong‐Dong Wang, Xiao Tang, Jie Zhou   +10 more
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Linking Critical Zone With Watershed Science: The Example of the Heihe River Basin

Earth's Future, Volume 10, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022
Abstract Watersheds are the basic unit of Earth's terrestrial systems and are therefore ideal units for the study of critical zones (CZs). However, grand challenges remain regarding the observation, modeling, and management of CZs and watershed systems.
Xin Li, Guodong Cheng, Bojie Fu, Jun Xia, Ling Zhang, Dawen Yang, Chunmiao Zheng, Shaomin Liu, Xiubin Li, Changqing Song, Shaozhong Kang, Xiaoyan Li, Tao Che, Yi Zheng, Yanzhao Zhou, Haibo Wang, Youhua Ran   +16 more
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Linking soil fungi to bacterial community assembly in arid ecosystems

iMeta, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2022., 2022
Our findings revealed the major roles of biotic factors and aridity in shaping the bacterial landscapes and mediating the community assembly in complex terrestrial ecosystems. Soil fungal richness mediates the balance of assembly processes of soil bacterial communities, with stochastic assembly processes decreasing along with an increase in fungal ...
Shuo Jiao, Haiyan Chu, Baogang Zhang, Xiaorong Wei, Weimin Chen, Gehong Wei   +5 more
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Soil chemical properties drive the structure of bacterial communities in the cotton soil of arid Northwest China

Ecological Research, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 663-672, July 2021., 2021
Over the last few decades, much of the desert‐oasis ecotone in northwestern China has been reclaimed for cotton cultivation. We found that the composition of the soil bacterial communities was significantly influenced by available K, N, P, total N, and soil pH.
Haiyan Liu, Jingjing Wang, Wei Zhao, Yun Chen, Ning Lv, Zhengbing Yi, Zhiyong Huang, Rong Yang, Xin Lv   +8 more
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