Effects of rocky desertification on soil bacterial community in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe makeup of soil microbial communities may serve as a crucial predictor of the alpine grassland ecosystem. Climate change and human disturbance have resulted in intensified ecosystem degradation, such as grassland rocky desertification, which may ...
Shan Li +20 more
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Extracting Information on Rocky Desertification from Satellite Images: A Comparative Study [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 Rocky desertification occurs in many karst terrains of the world and poses major challenges for regional sustainable development. Remotely sensed data can provide important information on rocky desertification.
Junwei Pu +4 more
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The Response of Rocky Desertification to the Development of Road Networks in Karst Ecologically Fragile Areas [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023 Frequent cross-regional communication makes road networks increasingly dense and has generated prominent human interference, thus resulting in the destruction of the landscape’s integrity and leading to changes in the functional processes of the habitat. In order to discuss the impacts of intense human activity brought by the road networks on the rocky
Shiwen Zhang +5 more
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The Stoichiometric Characteristics of Liana Leaves in Different Rocky Desertification Habitats
DiversityLianas play a crucial role in forest species diversity, biomass, nutrient cycling, and vegetation restoration. To date, numerous studies on the stoichiometric characteristics of liana leaves have predominantly focused on temperate, subtropical, and ...
Xiaolong Bai +5 more
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Structural evolution of soil aggregates in a karst rocky desertification area [PDF]
RSC Advances, 2022 Desertification and karst landforms are widespread in the water source area of the middle route project of south-to-north water diversion in China, which may have an impact on the safety of reservoir water quality.
Chunjie Li, Shili Guo
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A Review of Village Ecosystem Vulnerability and Resilience: Implications for the Rocky Desertification Control [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Under the background of global environmental change, a huge impact has been made on the village ecosystem, which leads to disorder of structure and function of the village ecosystem. The current management measures of the village have failed in allowing the village to achieve sustainable development.
Jiuhan Tang +5 more
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Establishment of rocky desertification index in Southwest of China
2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2014 Rocky desertification is a type of land desertification. It comes from the fragile ecological and geological environment, where the human activity is very strong and the land productivity is degraded severely. As a natural disaster, rocky desertification is very destructive, and it is very difficult to be recovered.
Lanying Yuan +7 more
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Genomic and Morphological Insights Into the Adaptive Evolution of Honeybees in Rocky Desertification Habitats [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionABSTRACT Unlike traditional desertification, rocky desertification is a distinct form of land degradation characterized by low vegetation coverage and a high proportion of rock exposure. Honeybees are crucial pollinators and ecological restorers and have coevolved closely with plants as their primary habitat and ...
Yinglong Yu +7 more
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Large scale rocky desertification reversal in South China karst
Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 2022 The karst area in southwest China is, in recent decades, one of the world’s regions with the fastest vegetation growth and increase in aboveground biomass. The improvement in the ecological conditions within this region can, to a large extent, be attributed to ecological protection projects.
Yuemin Yue +6 more
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Effect of nanoparticles on the growth of okra cultivated in soil affected by rocky desertification [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study investigated the influence of various nanoparticles (NPs), including carbon-based NPs, Al2O3-NPs, SiO2-NPs, and TiO2-NPs, on the growth and physiology of okra plants cultivated in soil impacted by rocky desertification. The morphological characteristics, photosynthetic parameters, antioxidant capacity, nutrient uptake of the okra plants, and
Jiyue Wang +6 more
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