DESERTSECOLOGICAL resilienceMETEOROLOGICAL chartsCATTLE breedsLAND coverDIGITAL mapsDesert expansion can cause tremendous damage to human wellbeing. However, the process of shifting from the non‐desert state to the desert state, a representation of a system regime shift, remains unclear on a global ...
Over two millennia ago, inspired by a sincere wish for friendship, our ancestors travelled across grasslands and deserts to create a land Silk Road connecting Asia, Europe and Africa, leading the world into an era of extensive cultural exchanges. More than 1,000 years ago, our ancestors set s...
We defined desert birds as species having ≥90% of their habitat within warm deserts. By overlaying the distribution of desert bird diversity (measured as rarity-weighted species richness28) with our projections of climate change impacts on desert birds, we generated bivariate heat maps for the wo...
* The global distribution of precipitation shows that the wettest areas on Earth are in the "rising air" zones, while the driest areas (subtropical deserts and the even drier polar areas) are in the "descending air" belts. As the Earth revolves around the Sun during the year, the orienta...
The spatial variability of net primary productivity (NPP) over the globe is enormous, from about 1000 g Cm -2 for evergreen tropical rain forests to less than 30 g Cm -2 for deserts (Scurlock et al. 1999). With increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and global climate change, ...
Referring to the global coherence map of the first year shown in Fig. 7, one can notice reduced coherence values over forested area, as well as over snow- and ice-covered ones, deserts, and mountainous regions (see also Section 2.4). Dedicated acquisition strategies have been applied, as ...
From the extremely cold Finland to the deserts of Saudi Arabia and the tropical rainforests of Ecuador, CHINT has expanded its footprints to over 100 countries and regions. According to Chen Chengjian, deputy chairman of CHINT Group's electric company, the company's international business accounts ...
Understanding changes in species distributions is essential to disentangle the mechanisms that drive their responses to anthropogenic habitat modification. Here we analyse the past (1970s) and current (2017) distribution of 204 species of terrestrial non
Grasses have adapted to the full range of environmental extremes occupied by plants, from the coldest regions and highest elevations where plants grow to equatorial heat, and from fully aquatic habitats to deserts. These remarkably adaptable plants play significant, sometimes dominant, roles in many ...
For instance, climate influences the distribution of vegetation on Earth’s surface (e.g., deserts exist in arid regions, forests in humid regions), but vegetation in turn influences climate by reflecting radiant energy back into the atmosphere, transferring water (and latent heat) from soil to...