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Meat productivity of sheep in Uzbekistan and its relationship with different factors [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 More than 20.1 million hectares of the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan are pastures, of which 16-17 million hectares are located in the desert region.
Bobokulov Nasillo +5 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 The changing availability of water resources and frequent extreme drought events in the context of global change will have a profound impact on desert vegetation, especially on herbaceous populations such as ephemerals.
Xiao-Han Mu +9 more
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Plants, 2023 In the context of global climate change, changes in precipitation patterns will have profound effects on desert plants, particularly on shallow-rooted plants, such as ephemeral plants.
Xiaohan Mu +4 more
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Spatio-seasonal variation of water quality influenced by land use and land cover in Lake Muhazi
Scientific Reports, 2021 Understanding the influence of land use/land cover (LULC) on water quality is pertinent to sustainable water management. This study aimed at assessing the spatio-seasonal variation of water quality in relation to land use types in Lake Muhazi, Rwanda ...
Edovia Dufatanye Umwali +11 more
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Invertebrate and vertebrate predation rates in a hyperarid ecosystem following an oil spill
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Extreme temperatures and scarce precipitation in deserts have led to abiotic factors often being regarded as more important than biotic ones in shaping desert communities. The presumed low biological activity of deserts is also one reason why deserts are
Marco Ferrante +5 more
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Transcriptome profiling of Malus sieversii under freezing stress after being cold-acclimated
BMC Genomics, 2021 Background Freezing temperatures are an abiotic stress that has a serious impact on plant growth and development in temperate regions and even threatens plant survival.
Ping Zhou +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 A boom in tourism may lead to the enrichment in heavy metals (HMs) in soils. Contamination with HMs poses a significant threat to the security of the soil environment.
Tao Zeng +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The Tarim River Basin in Xinjiang, China, has a typical desert riparian forest ecosystem. Analysis of the resilience of this type of ecosystem under extreme drought conditions and ecological rehabilitation projects could provide a theoretical basis for ...
Aihong Fu +9 more
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BMC Genomics, 2021 Background Valsa canker is a serious disease in the stem of Malus sieversii, caused by Valsa mali. However, little is known about the global response mechanism in M. sieversii to V. mali infection.
Xiaojie Liu +7 more
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Different responses of ecosystem CO2 and N2O emissions and CH4 uptake to seasonally asymmetric warming in an alpine grassland of the Tianshan [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2021 An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of seasonally asymmetric warming on ecosystem respiration (Re), CH4 uptake, and N2O emissions in alpine grassland of the Tianshan of central Asia, from October 2016 to September 2019. The annual means
Y. Gong +4 more
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