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Effects of alpine meadows with different degradation gradients on the stability of the soil micro-foodweb in the Tibetan Plateau

Ecological Indicators
Resource-transfer connections among bacteria, fungi, and microbivorous nematodes play an integral role in the decomposition pathways of soil micro-foodweb.
Lili Nian, Xiaoning Zhang, Liangliang Li, Shu-Yi-Dan Zhou, Xingyu Liu, Xiaodan Li, Xiaoyu Liu, Qiqi Zhao, Yingying Wu, Fasih Ullah Haider, Xuelu Liu, Yingbo Yang   +11 more
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Revealing Dust Source Changes in East Asia From Past to Future: An Interpretable Deep Learning Approach

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aeolian dust source areas are controlled by climate and human activities and are closely associated with land degradation, yet their long‐term evolution under global warming remains insufficiently quantified. An integrated framework that couples a U‐Net segmentation model with Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) was built to map and attribute
Yanyu Li, Qizhong Wu, Xueshun Chen, Jiang Yue, Jieying He, Huaqiong Cheng   +5 more
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Land Degradation, Cultural Ecosystem Services, and Ecosystem Disservices in the Sumapaz Páramo, Colombia: An Integrated Socioecological Assessment

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the relationships among land degradation, ecosystem functioning and human well‐being is essential for conserving tropical high‐mountain ecosystems. This study examined the relationships among land degradation, Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), ecosystem disservices (EDS) and visitor perceptions at Laguna Colorados in the Sumapaz
Victor Fabian Forero Ausique, Diana Cristina Díaz Guevara, Silvana Daniela Forero Ausique, Yetfersson Arley Serrato Velosa, Favio Cala Vitery   +4 more
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Linking Ecosystem Risk, Health, Services to Ecological Security Assessment in the Yellow River Basin: Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Nonlinear Driving Characteristics

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A scientific assessment of ecological security (ES) and its nonlinear mechanism for key driving factors in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) is of great significance for ecological protection and sustainable development. This study proposes an ES assessment framework, which links ecosystem risk (ER), ecosystem health (EH), and ecosystem services ...
Menghao Yang, Ming Wang, Haipeng Zhang, Zhihong Yao   +3 more
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Threshold Extraction and Early Warning of Key Ecological Factors for Grassland Degradation Risk

Remote Sensing
Grassland degradation poses a serious threat to ecosystem stability and the sustainable development of human societies. In this study, we propose a framework for grassland degradation risk assessments and early warning based on key ecological factors ...
Jingbo Li, Wei Liang, Min Xu, Haijing Tian, Xiaotong Gao, Yujie Yang, Ruichen Hu, Yu Zhang, Chunxiang Cao   +8 more
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Synergistic and Trade‐Off Effects of Plant Communities on Slope Runoff and Sediment Yield

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Plant community functional structure plays an important role in regulating slope runoff and sediment yield on the Loess Plateau. Based on runoff plot monitoring and vegetation surveys in the Yangjuangou catchment, we used partial least squares regression (PLSR) and variable importance in projection (VIP) analysis to assess the effects of ...
Menghan Wu, Jian Hou, Qingsheng Zhong
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Different responses of soil water to warming controlled by evapotranspiration during grassland degradation: A case study in the typical steppe of China

Ecological Indicators
Worldwide grasslands are experiencing degradation due to overgrazing and the effects of climate change, and warming-induced changes in degraded grasslands could accelerate degradation.
Jing Huang, Kesi Liu, Pengpeng Dou, Qian Gao, Cheng Liu, Jinshan Du, Zhengzhou Miao, Zhuoran Ren, Kun Wang   +8 more
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A Single Amendment With Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum Improves Saline‐Sodic Soil Quality: Evidence From a Decade‐Long Paddy Experiment

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Saline–sodic soils threaten global agriculture, and flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum is a widely adopted reclamation practice. However, the associated long‐term (> 10 years) legacy effects and temporal dynamics remain poorly understood. We quantified the decadal dynamics of soil quality following a one‐time application of FGD gypsum (40 t 
Ran Li, Jingzhe He, Wenchao Zhang, Bangyan Liu, Shujuan Wang, Jia Liu, Yan Li, Lizhen Xu, Jinbo Li, Yonggan Zhao   +9 more
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Land Degradation Pathways of Open‐Pit and Underground Mining in Karst Regions: A Spatial Indicator Assessment

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mining in the karst regions of southwest China threatens ecosystem stability and accelerates land degradation. Regional evaluation rarely distinguishes between degradation pathways in open‐pit and underground operations, due to spatial heterogeneity and geomorphological confounding effects.
Xiaofu Chen, Jianchun Hu, Pushan Wen, Tao Wei, Wenrui Ran, Pan Wu   +5 more
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Plant Diversity, Productivity, and Soil Nutrient Responses to Different Grassland Degradation Levels in Hulunbuir, China

Land
Grassland degradation could affect the composition, structure, and ecological function of plant communities and threaten the stability of their ecosystems.
Yuxuan Wu, Ping Wang, Xiaosheng Hu, Ming Li, Yi Ding, Tiantian Peng, Qiuying Zhi, Qiqige Bademu, Wenjie Li, Xiao Guan, Junsheng Li   +10 more
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