This article shares details on the meaning of desertification, the 7 different causes behind desertification, and the harmful effects of desertification like an increase in poverty, hunger, fall in farm outputs, etc. Desertification is a topic in the Geography as well as environment & ecology secti...
During the Dust Bowl, a period of massive dust storms in the 1930s, farmland in the Great Plains became barren through desertification.The word desertification is made up of the Latin suffix -ficationem meaning "to make, do" tagged to the end of the word desert. The process of ...
Located in southwest Asia, Iran spans an area of pronounced topographic gradients, including elevations of > 5000 m in the Alborz and Zagros mountains, together with coastal areas along the Caspian Sea that are below sea level (Fig.1). More than 85% of the total 1.6 million km2area of...
“Our knowledge of the species with which we share planet Earth is dangerously limited, meaning that we make decisions and policies in near complete ignorance of basic facts. Our best guess is that there are 10 million living species, more or less, excluding the single-celled bacteria and Arch...
SPATIAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS BETWEEN KARST ROCKY DESERTIFICATION AND LITHOLOGY IN DU’AN YAO AUTONOMOUS COUNTY OF GUANGXI. JIANG Shufang~1, HU Baoqing~(1,2), HUANG Qiuyan~1, ZHOU Dequan~3,LIAO Chimei~1 (1.Department of Geography, Guangxi Teacher’s College, Nanning GX 530001, China,2....
slope, takes a negative part in the desertification process, meaning that steep slope does not favor desertification. Therefore, desertification is associated with both climate condition and human activity, and this finding confirms the correctness of the definition of “desertification” by UNCCD in 19...