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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 +4 more
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Shrinking water bodies as hotspots of sand and dust storms: The role of land degradation and sustainable soil and water management [PDF]
, 2021 Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) are a natural phenomenon with important impacts on ecosystems and human society. SDS hotspots are mostly located in drylands, however their impact goes beyond national and regional boundaries, making them a global issue ...
Kang U. +3 more
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Re-evaluating the resource potential of lomas fog oasis environments for Preceramic hunter-gatherers under past ENSO modes on the south coast of Peru [PDF]
, 2015 Lomas – ephemeral seasonal oases sustained by ocean fogs – were critical to ancient human ecology on the desert Pacific coast of Peru: one of humanity’s few independent hearths of agriculture and “pristine” civilisation. The role of climate change since
Alarcón, C +15 more
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Ecography, Volume 43, Issue 8, Page 1118-1142, August 2020., 2020 A comprehensive understanding of the relationship between land cover, climate change and disturbance dynamics is needed to inform scenarios of vegetation change on the African continent. Although significant advances have been made, large uncertainties exist in projections of future biodiversity and ecosystem change for the world's largest tropical ...
Leanne N. Phelps +12 more
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Contribution of recycled moisture to local precipitation in the inland Heihe River Basin [PDF]
, 2019 Recycled moisture contributed by continental evaporation and transpiration plays an important role in regulating the hydrological processes and atmospheric humidity budget in arid inland river basins.
He, Zhibin +7 more
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Tamarix arborea var. arborea and Tamarix parviflora: Two species valued for their adaptability to stress conditions [PDF]
, 2016 The choice of stress resistant and highly adaptable species is a fundamental step for landscaping and ornamental purposes in arid and coastal environments such as those in the Mediterranean basin. The genus Tamarix L.
Gargano, Maria Letizia +5 more
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Point Pattern Analysis of Different Life Stages of Haloxylon ammodendron in Desert-oasis Ecotone
Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 2014 The Haloxylon ammodendron natural desert forest is an important vegetation formation and has a large distribution area in Junggar Basin, Xinjiang Province, China. In this paper, H. ammodendron populations were mapped, characterized and the spatial distribution patterns and spatial associations of H.
Mei Wang, Shuoxin Zhang, Guangming Chu
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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 +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 +4 more
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