of livestock and crop production systems, coupled with good linkages to light processing industries.This paper identifies the causal factors of desert encroachment, assesses its impact on the environment and hu
Deserts are great sources of erosion and dry sand. The borders of the Sahara desert are expanding because the dry and nutrient depleted sand is continuing to spread and the water in surrounding regions continues to dry out.What is Desertification? Desertification is a process that an environment ...
However, little is known about the effects of biocrusts on soil properties and soil microbial communities in the progression of KRD. Methods We sampled soil beneath moss biocrusts and bare soil in four grades of KRD (none, light, moderate, and severe) to compare soil nutrients, soil microbial...
However, in the past decades, the impact of pollen-induced AR on local citizens has not been fully considered during the implementation of many desert greening projects. Only focusing on the ‘ecological effect’ without considering the ‘humanistic effect’ may have adverse effects on the health ...
Environmentalists have to carefully select hardy flora that can withstand the altitude and environment, such as the Mulberry Tree."We choose plants which have better desertification control effects in the inland regions. However, we also have to consider the differences of environmenta...
including the European Mediterranean and Dinaric Karst regions of the Balkan Peninsula, Southwest China on a large scale, and alarmingly, even in tropical rainforests such as Haiti and Barbados, and has had tremendous negative impacts to the environment and social and economic conditions at local an...
desertification due to intensive agriculture and land degradation, locations on the shoulders of deserts, and susceptibility to drought. California, as it is a leading agricultural state with large urban populations, serves as a prime example for the effects of poor land management increasing the ...
Due to the potential significant effects of desertification on China’s ecology and food security, the Chinese government has carried out several desertification-combating actions to improve vegetation condition3,4, and since the early 2000s, more major countermeasures involving widespread “grain-for-gr...
World Information Transfer. (2009). Special focus: Desertification: Its effects on people and land.World Ecology Report: Critical Issues in Health and Environment,(1), 1–5. Retrieved fromhttps://worldinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/library/wer/english/2009_Spring_Vol_XXI_no_1.pdf ...
In the final analysis, when viewed in the national perspective, the effects on agriculture are the most troublesome aspect of desertification in the US. For it comes at a time when we are losing over a million acres of rain-watered crop and grass land per year to higher uses—shopping cent...