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Land Degradation and Its Economic Impacts on Agriculture and Forestry: Exploring IoT‐Based Mitigation Strategies

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land degradation threatens agricultural and forestry economies by lowering productivity, raising input costs, and increasing risk. This study examines whether Internet of Things applications moderate these losses in 1321 mainland Chinese counties from 2011 to 2024. Land degradation is measured separately through vegetation trends, modeled soil
Chengting Zheng, Guoqing Zhang, Shufang Wu, Ling Li, Yeting Lu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drought and bush encroachment threaten dry rangeland sustainability in Northeastern Ethiopia

Global Ecology and Conservation
Climate change and the spread of invasive bush species significantly threaten global rangeland health. However, the effects of different land use intensities and timings on vegetation health are still poorly understood.
Minyahel Tilahun, Zenghui Liu, Ayana Angassa, Zhipeng Wang, Meng Li, Jianshuang Wu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Resilience Pathways for Land Degradation Neutrality: How Informal Institutions Shape Community Land Governance Across the Global South

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A decade after Land Degradation Neutrality was incorporated into Sustainable Development Goal 15.3, implementation outcomes across the Global South remain uneven. Mainstream commons research identifies recurring institutional features, whereas critical institutionalism emphasizes their adaptive assembly; both traditions increasingly recognize ...
Tengyuan Yang, Senbao Lu, Jiapeng Dai
wiley   +1 more source

Better together: An attachment perspective on mutual well-being in animal-assisted interventions (AAIs)

Human-Animal Interactions
Background: Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) are increasingly utilized to support the physical and social-emotional well-being of children with developmental disabilities (DD). Few studies have considered the impact of these interventions on the well-
Saethra Darling, Shelby H. Wanser, Jiang, Megan MacDonald, Monique A.R. Udell   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Explainable, Uncertainty‐Aware Machine Learning for Maize Land Suitability and Climate Resilience in Lorestan Province, Western Iran

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Maize (Zea mays L.) is strategically important in Iran, yet its cultivation in the semi‐arid Zagros is constrained by limited and variable water, heat stress and heterogeneous soils, while conventional suitability assessments are deterministic, rarely validated spatially and provide no measure of confidence.
Ahad Madani, Narges Shafaei Bajestani
wiley   +1 more source

Nature‐based solutions for protected area governance: A systematic review

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature‐based solutions (NBSs) have been introduced as an effective approach for climate change resilience and a set of actions to conserve, restore and sustainably manage natural or modified ecosystems, while simultaneously providing benefits to human well‐being and biodiversity.
Ghader Arabi, Esmail Karamidehkordi, Enayat Abbasi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of rangeland conditions through field survey and NDVI in semi-arid area of Dubluk district Southern Ethiopia

Discover Environment
Rangelands play a crucial role in Ethiopia’s rural economy, ecological biodiversity, and food security. However, their condition at the local level remains inadequately documented, limiting timely responses to degradation.
Jatani Garbole, Samuel Tuffa, Roba Jiso
doaj   +1 more source

Plant species are more important to bacterial community composition than seeding ratio in a pea‐canola intercropping system

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Demand for agricultural land has increased due to rising demand for food, potentially leading to expansion into previously untouched habitats, which threatens refugia of native plants. We aimed to provide insight into how variation in seeding ratio may impact soil bacterial communities in a pea‐canola intercropping system, potentially altering crop ...
Janice M. Parks, Braeden J. Stiffler, Maren L. Friesen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Impact of Exclosures on the Physicochemical Properties of Rangeland Soil (Case Study: Northern Golestan Province, Sufikam Rangelands) [PDF]

علوم محیطی
Introduction: Overgrazing can have detrimental effects on the physical properties of soil in rangelands. Among the remedial methods for degraded soils, increasing rangeland fertility and striving to improve soil structure stability, reducing livestock ...
Rasool Khatibi, Mohsen Farahi
doaj   +1 more source