Relict Plants Are Better Able to Adapt to Climate Change: Evidence from Desert Shrub Communities
Plants, 2023 Shrubs are the main dominant plants in arid desert systems and play an important role in maintaining the biodiversity, ecosystem services and stability of desert ecosystems.
Ying Lu +5 more
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Climate forcing and desert malaria: the effect of irrigation [PDF]
Malaria Journal, 2011 Abstract Background Rainfall variability and associated remote sensing indices for vegetation are central to the development of early warning systems for epidemic malaria in arid regions. The considerable change in land-use practices resulting from increasing irrigation in recent decades raises important questions on ...
Andrés Baeza +5 more
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Desert dust and anthropogenic aerosol interactions in the Community Climate System Model coupled-carbon-climate model [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2011 Coupled-carbon-climate simulations are an essential tool for predicting the impact of human activity onto the climate and biogeochemistry. Here we incorporate prognostic desert dust and anthropogenic aerosols into the CCSM3.1 coupled carbon-climate model
N. Mahowald +7 more
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Zaxinone mimics (MiZax) efficiently promote growth and production of potato and strawberry plants under desert climate conditions. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Climate changes and the rapid expanding human population have become critical concerns for global food security. One of the promising solutions is the employment of plant growth regulators (PGRs) for increasing crop yield and overcoming adverse growth ...
Wang JY +9 more
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Spatial planning of climatic hazards of desert and dry areas and presenting its strategies [PDF]
رویکردهای نوین در مهندسی آب و محیط زیست, 2022 It is important to know about the deserts of Iran because the geographical and climatic conditions of the desert have never been expanding by themselves.
Vahid Mardani, maryam ilanloo, Neda Orak
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Scientific African, 2023 Compared to moderate climate conditions, hot and dry environment, as known desert, present the most difficult environment that affects negatively PV panels performance.
Mohammed Younes +6 more
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Study on UV aging characteristics of low-grade asphalt in the desert climate
Materials Research Express, 2023 The Taklamakan Desert in China’s Xinjiang region faces severe heat conditions that cause rutting in asphalt pavements. In order to combat this issue, local construction management has been advocating for the utilization of low-grade asphalt with ...
Liang Song +4 more
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China Geology, 2021 The Badain Jaran Desert is the third largest desert in China, covering an area of 50000 km2. It lies in Northwest China, where the arid and rainless natural environment has a great impact on the climate, environment, and human living conditions. Based on
Zhe Wang +7 more
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Seasonal and Ephemeral Snowpacks of the Conterminous United States
Hydrology, 2021 Snowpack seasonality in the conterminous United States (U.S.) is examined using a recently-released daily, 4 km spatial resolution gridded snow water equivalent and snow depth product developed by assimilating station-based observations and gridded ...
Benjamin J. Hatchett
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The potential habitat of desert locusts is contracting: predictions under climate change scenarios [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Desert locusts are notorious for their widespread distribution and strong destructive power. Their influence extends from the vast arid and semiarid regions of western Africa to northwestern India.
Jingyun Guan +5 more
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