Reviewing the International Year of Deserts and Desertification 2006: What contribution towards combating global desertification and implementing the united nations convention to combat desertification? [PDF]
, 2008 During the United Nations General Assembly's 58th Ordinary Session in 2003, a decision was adopted declaring 2006 the International Year of Deserts and Desertification (IYDD). This paper critically reviews this International Year.
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Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity : a synthesis [PDF]
, 2009 Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is it recognized threat to plant diversity ill temperate and northern parts of Europe and North America. This paper assesses evidence from field experiments for N deposition effects and thresholds for terrestrial plant
Alkemade, R. +16 more
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Asymmetric warming significantly affects net primary production, but not ecosystem carbon balances of forest and grassland ecosystems in northern China [PDF]
, 2015 We combine the process-based ecosystem model (Biome-BGC) with climate change-scenarios based on both RegCM3 model outputs and historic observed trends to quantify differential effects of symmetric and asymmetric warming on ecosystem net primary ...
Axmacher, JC, Feng, J, Sang, W, Su, H
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Forests, 2022 Understanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality is popular topic in ecological research. Although scale is an important factor driving changes in biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality, we still know little ...
Jiaxin Liu +4 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 Vegetation restoration has been widely used in karst rocky desertification (KRD) areas of southwestern China, but the response of microbial community to revegetation has not been well characterized.
Liang Xue +9 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Combating desertification is vital for arresting land degradation and ensuring sustainable development of the global ecological environment. This study has analyzed the current desertification status and determined its control needs based on the ...
Lei Zhang +11 more
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Collapse of a desert bird community over the past century driven by climate change [PDF]
, 2020 Climate change has caused deserts, already defined by climatic extremes, to warm and dry more rapidly than other ecoregions in the contiguous United States over the last 50 years.
Beissinger, Steven R., Iknayan, Kelly J.
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Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010 [PDF]
, 2013 Climate change has led to more frequent extreme winters (aka, dzud) and summer droughts on the Mongolian Plateau during the last decade. Among these events, the 2000–2002 combined summer drought–dzud and 2010 dzud were the most severe on vegetation.
Batkhishig, Ochirbat +8 more
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Ecosystem recharge by volcanic dust drives broad-scale variation in bird abundance [PDF]
, 2015 Across the globe, deserts and volcanic eruptions produce large volumes of atmospheric dust, and the amount of dust is predicted to increase with global warming.
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Factors driving the biomass and species richness of desert plants in northern Xinjiang China.
PLoS ONE, 2022 The desert ecosystem is an important part of the terrestrial ecosystem. Accurate estimations of the biomass and species richness of desert plants are of great value for maintaining ecosystem stability; however, current assessments remain a challenge due ...
Cheng Fei, Yi Qiang Dong, Sha Zhou An
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