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Climate‐Smart Destination Marketing and Community‐Based Tourism for Socio‐Economic Revitalization in Degraded Landscapes

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the global tourism industry confronts the existential imperatives of the Anthropocene, the remediation of degraded landscapes through regenerative economic models has emerged as a critical frontier in sustainability science. This research presents a rigorous empirical examination of the “restoration–revenue” paradigm, investigating the ...
Xin Sui, Tianchang Chen
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Changes in land use are associated with the accumulation of soil phytolith-occluded organic carbon

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Organic carbon occluded in phytoliths is extremely stable and plays important roles in long-term preservation of soil and stable carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems.
Linjiao Wang, Ke Wang, Maoyin Sheng
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Soil Erosion in a Typical Karst Region: A Model Improved by Bedrock Exposure Rate in Guizhou Province

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil erosion is a major environmental challenge in karst regions of Southwest China, where thin soils and high bedrock exposure accelerate land degradation. This study modified the RUSLE model by incorporating bedrock exposure rate to improve erosion simulation in Guizhou Province from 2000 to 2024.
Ning Niu, Jihui Fan, Yiying Li
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Study on spatiotemporal evolution of rocky desertification in the pilot zone for sustainable development: A case study of Gongcheng county

Carsologica Sinica
The karst area in Southwest China is an important region for the implementation of sustainable development strategies in China, as well as an area with extremely fragile ecological environment and concentrated distribution of rocky desertification. As a "
Chun TU, Weiqun LUO, Zhongcheng JIANG, Shaohua LIU, Zhaoxin HU, Qingjia TANG, Zeyan WU, Biao ZHANG   +7 more
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Integrating Ecosystem Service Benefits to Assess Ecosystem Health and Its Response to Land Spatial Structure Conflicts in Anning River Basin, China

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land spatial structure conflicts (LSSC) weaken the actual benefits of ecosystem services by inducing trade‐offs among them, directly threatening regional ecosystem health (EH) and sustainable development. However, most studies have failed to incorporate ecosystem service benefits (ESB) into EH assessments and have overlooked their response to ...
Weijie Li, Jinwen Kang
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EXTRACTION OF ROCKY DESERTIFICATION FROM DISP IMAGERY: A CASE STUDY OF LIUPANSHUI, GUIZHOU, CHINA [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
Karst rocky desertification is a typical type of land degradation in Guizhou Province, China. It causes great ecological and economical implications to the local people.
G. Zhou, G. Zhou, Z. Wu, W. Wang, Y. Shi, G. Mao, Y. Huang, B. Jia, G. Gao, P. Chen   +9 more
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Asymmetric Responses of Ecosystem Health to Urbanization in a Typical Karst City: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Mechanisms in Guilin, China

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban expansion can substantially reshape ecosystem structure and functioning, especially in ecologically fragile Karst landscapes. Clarifying how ecosystem health (EH) responds to urbanization and identifying the factors that drive spatial variation in EH are important for regional sustainability.
Jinlong Hu, Zhenhong Bin, Yingxue Wang
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Correlation mechanism between rocky desertification degrees and slope position factors in karst mountainous area of southeast Yunnan

Carsologica Sinica
As a kind of land degradation phenomenon, rocky desertification is one of the main ecological problems in karst areas in Southwest China. The key to the effective control of rocky desertification is to explore the distribution law and influence mechanism
Yanjun CHEN, Xiaoqing ZHAO, Junwei PU, Xiaoqian SHI, Yan FENG, Shijie ZHOU   +5 more
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Karst dissolution rates of carbonate rocks in north-south geographical boundary of China—the Qinba Mountain Area

Carsologica Sinica, 2023
The karst area in the south of China is one of the three major karst distribution areas in the world. But the economic development of the karst mountainous area is severely restricted by the fragility of its environment and unreasonable disturbance of ...
Zhiguo YANG, Qingmin CHEN, Xing CHENG, Kaikai HE, Yu ZHANG, Li TANG, Hao AI, Wenshuo ZHANG   +7 more
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Higher NO3−‐N Levels Under Mulberry (Morus alba L.) Planting Enhanced CAZyme Abundance, Increasing Soil Carbon Stability

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Afforestation is widely advocated for boosting carbon (C) sequestration. However, the stability of soil C pools in economically and culturally significant mulberry plantations remains poorly understood. The soil organic C (SOC) contents in different aggregates and the oxidizable OC fractions were measured.
Zi Yang, Weiguo Zhao, Jinjin Yang, Zhenjiang Wang, Weijun Zhu, Changyu Qiu, Qiang Lin, Meina Zhu, Mengdi Zhao   +8 more
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