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Desertification in karst areas: A review [PDF]

Desertification in karst is an effect of climate change and not sustainable anthropogenic activities, the combination of which, however, causes the gradual loss of karst natural resources, such as soil, vegetation, and groundwater.
Liso I. S., D'Ettorre U. S., Parise M.
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Feature space based monitoring model of rock desertification for karst landscape

European Journal of Remote Sensing
With the increasingly prominent phenomenon of rocky desertification in various karst regions worldwide, accurate monitoring of rocky desertification is crucial for solving this ecological problem.
Xinyu Sun, Wen Liu, Dong Yang, Muhammad Hayat, Xianli Xu   +4 more
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Spatial Heterogeneity and Nonlinear Influencing Mechanisms of Vegetation Carbon Sequestration Capacity in the Southwest China Karst Region

Earth's Future, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Understanding of the spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation carbon sequestration capacity (VCSC) in Southwest China's contiguous karst region is critical for regional carbon cycling. Using MOD17A3 data from 2001 to 2023, we analyzed spatial heterogeneity in vegetation net primary productivity (NPP) and applied Geodetector to evaluate nonlinear ...
Xiangwen Gong, Lei Fan, Bo Yao, Xuyang Wang, Chunlin Wang, Jun Liu, Hongling Yang, Aixia Yang, Zhixuan Lu, Yuqiang Li   +9 more
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Soil Diversity and Climate: An Overview of Profile Data and Acquisition With the WoSIS Global Legacy Dataset

European Journal of Soil Science, Volume 77, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Soil profiles are the primary field evidence from which pedogenesis, soil classification and land‐use effects are interpreted, yet their availability remains uneven across climates and land‐cover contexts. Here, we analyse the World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) 2023 snapshot together with Copernicus Global Land Cover 2015 and the global ...
Calogero Schillaci, Grace B. Alves, Mohamed Bayad, Boglarka Bozoki, Giulia Bondi, Christopher R. Burn, Timo Breure, Giacomo Certini, Songchao Chen, Michele E. D'Amico, Mauro De Feudis, Axel Cerón González, Jaqueline Hannam, Danny Itkin, Arwyn Jones, Michael Maerker, Stephan Mantel, Erika Michéli, Luca Montanarella, Panos Panagos, Thilo Rennert, Sergio Saia, Riccardo Scalenghe, Simone Scarpa, Fabio Terribile, William Trenti, Diana Vieira, Simona Vingiani, Felipe Yunta, Yushu Xia, Ioannis Zafeiriou, Pandi Zdruli, Claudio Zucca, Daniel L. Evans   +33 more
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DEVELOPING NEW SPECTRAL INDICES FOR KARST ROCKY DESERTIFICATION MONITORING IN SOUTHWEST CHINA

, 2020
Karst rocky desertification is a special kind of land desertification developed under violent human impacts on the vulnerable eco-geo-environment of karst ecosystem.
Yuemin Yue, Xiaonan Zhang, Quanjun Jiao, Junsheng Li, Kelin Wang, Bo Liu, Bing Zhang   +6 more
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Rocky desertification in Southwest China: Impacts, causes, and restoration

, 2014
Rocky desertification, which is relatively less well known than desertification, refers to the processes and human activities that transform a karst area covered by vegetation and soil into a rocky landscape.
Jiang, Zhongcheng, Qin, Xiaoqun, Lian, Yanqing   +2 more
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Restoration Approaches Regulate Soil Multifunctionality via Microbial Nitrogen and Plant Diversity in Northern Forests

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 5, May 2026.
Explanation of the soil multifunctionality index by biotic factors and abiotic factors. ABSTRACT Long‐term anthropogenic disturbances have damaged forest ecosystems, and different restoration approaches after disturbance play a crucial regulatory role in maintaining and enhancing ecosystem functions. However, existing studies have mostly focused on the
Yonghong Luo, Ye Liu, Peng Wang, Jiazhi Wang, Fuji Liu, Shuhua Wei, Xingfu Yan, Jiming Cheng   +7 more
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Using the radial basis function network model to assess rocky desertification in northwest Guangxi, China

, 2020
Karst rocky desertification is a progressive process of land degradation in karst regions in which soil is severely, or completely, eroded. This process may be caused by natural factors, such as geological structure, and population pressure leading to ...
Huiyu Liu, Yuemin Yue, Mingyang Zhang, Ingrid Luffman, Xiangkun Qi, Hongsong Chen, Kelin Wang, Chunhua Zhang   +7 more
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Dynamics of Vegetation and Soil in Long‐Term Artificial Sand Control Projects in the Ulan Buh Desert

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
This study investigates the long‐term synergistic evolution of vegetation and soil in artificial sand‐control projects (using straw checkerboard barriers) in China's Ulan Buh Desert. By analyzing areas with different restoration times (0–15 years), it identifies ~10 years as a critical inflection point where plant communities mature into stable, near ...
Benmo Li, Dong Wang, Yujie Xue, Runze Liu, Jingwen Li   +4 more
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Benefit Evaluation on the Control Mode for Typical Karst Rocky Desertification in Guizhou Province, China [PDF]

, 2017
Control mode for typical karst rocky desertification in Guizhou Province, China is selected as the research object. The ecological benefit, the social and economic benefit and the popularization prospect of mode are selected as evaluation indices ...
Xu, Shu-jian, Zuo, Tai-an, Zuo, Xing-jun
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