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Estimating the Impact of Socioeconomic Drivers on Land Degradation in Italy via Spatio‐Temporal Additive Expectile Regression

Environmetrics, Volume 37, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Climate changes, soil degradation, and desertification increasingly threaten the entire territory of Italy due to the complex interplay between natural processes and anthropogenic forces. Motivated by this pressing issue, this paper investigates how land‐use and socioeconomic drivers have shaped desertification dynamics across Italian ...
Luca Merlo, Beatrice Foroni, Ioannis Konaxis, Lea Petrella, Luca Salvati   +4 more
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Differences in Fine Root Traits of <i>Quercus rehderiana</i> Between Rocky and Nonrock Desertification Forests in Southwest China. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Bai X, Zou S, Zhang W, Feng T, Lv D, He B, Li W.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Physicochemical Properties and Antioxidant Activity of Apocynum Honey in Different Regions of Xinjiang

Food Chemistry International, Volume 2, Issue 1, Page 73-83, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this study, honey produced from Apocynum venetum L. was collected from BC (Bachu County), SY (Shaya County), and YL (Yuli County) in Xinjiang. The basic physical and chemical properties of the honey, and the contents of total phenols, total flavonoids, and amino acids were analyzed, and 16 types of polyphenols were quantified using triple ...
Na Zhang, Jingjing Lv, Ruili Zhang, Qinghua Jia, Tiantian Jian, Yawen Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shrub-facilitated invasion accelerates desertification. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Lucero JE, Lortie CJ, Filazzola A, Callaway RM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Food, Health, Nutrition, Energy and Environment (FHNEE) Security Nexus: Future Mission for Sustainable Agriculture

Food and Energy Security, Volume 15, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT World agriculture faces several challenges that include an increase in population, rising incidences of chronic human diseases, zoonosis, malnutrition, rapid depletion of fossil fuels, increasing environmental pollution, land use changes, soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and above all, global warming and climate change.
Chittaranjan Kole, Phullara Kole, Sarita Pandey, Stanislaus Antony Ceasar, Rodomiro Ortiz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

EQARO-ECS: Efficient Quantum ARO-Based Edge Computing and SDN Routing Protocol for IoT Communication to Avoid Desertification. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Al-Janabi TA, Al-Raweshidy HS, Zouri M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio‐ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 569-581, March 2026.
Abstract Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals.
Mariana Hernandez‐Montilla, Katie Devenish, Lucas Alencar, Rayna Benzeev, Pooja Choksi, Ida N. S. Djenontin, Matthew E. Fagan, Harry Fischer, Paola Isaacs Cubides, Thais Linhares Juvenal, Matilda Kabutey‐Ongor, Judith Kamoto, Andrew Kinzer, David Kroeker‐Maus, Stephanie Mansourian, Felipe Melo, Daniel C. Miller, Sandy Nofyanza, Adithya Pradeep, Florian Reiner, Warrangkana Rattanarat, Niken Sakuntaladewi, Conghe Song, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Johan A. Oldekop   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leaf-branch-root trait relationships in <i>Quercus rehderiana</i> across rocky and non-rocky desertification habitats in China. [PDF]

PeerJ
Bai X, Zou S, Feng T, Lv D, He B, Li W.
europepmc   +1 more source

A manifesto for plant science education

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 422-432, March 2026.
Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well‐trained plant scientists and plant‐aware individuals. This manifesto provides a practical evidence‐based vision to strengthen plant science education, focussed on five strategic ...
Elizabeth Alvey, Andrea Paterlini, Mary E. Williams, Mia E. Cerfonteyn, Samantha Dobbie, Steven Dodsworth, Sonja D. Dunbar, Lauren R. Headland, Anastasia Kolesnikova, Pankaj Kumar, Silvia Manrique, Catherine Mansfield, Sebastian Stroud, Shannon Woodhouse, Hailey Ashton, Yoselin Benitez‐Alfonso, Emily Breeze, Kelsey J. R. P. Byers, Chana P. Chetariya, Beth C. Dyson, Alec Forsyth, Beatriz Gonçalves, Camila Gonzalez, Daniel M. Jenkins, Joanna Kacprzyk, Kirsten Knox, George R. Littlejohn, Sara Lopez‐Gomollon, Enrique López‐Juez, Claudia Martinho, Vincent D. P. Modji, Itumeleng Moroenyane, Amy S. Newell, Geraint J. Parry, Julie Peacock, Anne Plessis, Bushra Saeed, Luis Sanz, Steven H. Spoel, Laurel R. Tully, Laura Turchi, Helen K. Woodfield, Katharine E. Hubbard   +42 more
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Integrated photovoltaic-agriculture systems enhance soil health in desert ecosystems: evidence from microbial biomass and nutrient synergies. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ma M, Yang F, Zheng X, Yang X, Mamtimin A, Zhou C, Li C, Huo W, Zheng X, Wang T, He P, Gong Q.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source