Search Results - "Land degradation & development"

Global desertification vulnerability to climate change and human activities by Huang, Jianping, Zhang, Guolong, Zhang, Yanting, Guan, Xiaodan, Wei, Yun, Guo, Ruixia

“…Desertification is the impoverishment of arid, semiarid, and some subhumid ecosystems. The assessment of global scale desertification vulnerability to climate…”
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China's wetlands loss to urban expansion by Mao, Dehua, Wang, Zongming, Wu, Jianguo, Wu, Bingfang, Zeng, Yuan, Song, Kaishan, Yi, Kunpeng, Luo, Ling

“…Humans benefit from multiple ecosystem services of wetlands, but massive wetland loss has occurred worldwide due to rapid urbanization. To assess the problem,…”
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Effects of coastal wetland reclamation on soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus in China: A meta‐analysis by Zhang, Tao, Song, Bing, Han, Guangxuan, Zhao, Huili, Hu, Qiuli, Zhao, Ying, Liu, Haojie

“…The reclamation of coastal wetlands for agriculture has expanded considerably over the last 40 years in China. Wetland reclamation could substantially alter…”
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Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models by Panagos, Panos, Standardi, Gabriele, Borrelli, Pasquale, Lugato, Emanuele, Montanarella, Luca, Bosello, Francesco

“…Much research has been carried out on modelling soil erosion rates under different climatic and land use conditions. Although some studies have addressed the…”
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Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Improve Growth and Enhance Tolerance of Broad Bean Plants under Saline Soil Conditions by Abdel Latef, Arafat Abdel Hamed, Srivastava, Ashish Kumar, El‐sadek, Mahmmoud Sayed Abd, Kordrostami, Mojtaba, Tran, Lam‐Son Phan

“…Soil salinity is established as one of the major environmental problems, decreasing crop productivity worldwide, thereby threatening sustainable agriculture…”
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Impact of biochar properties on soil conditions and agricultural sustainability: A review by Al‐Wabel, Mohammad I., Hussain, Qaiser, Usman, Adel R.A., Ahmad, Mahtab, Abduljabbar, Adel, Sallam, Abdulazeem S., Ok, Yong Sik

“…This review summarizes the influences of pyrolysis conditions and feedstock types on biochar properties and how biochar properties in turn affect soil…”
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SOIL EROSION, CONSERVATION, AND ECO-ENVIRONMENT CHANGES IN THE LOESS PLATEAU OF CHINA by Zhao, G., Mu, X., Wen, Z., Wang, F., Gao, P.

“…ABSTRACT As one of the best‐known areas in the world, the Loess Plateau, has long been suffering from serious soil erosion. The present paper reviewed the…”
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Shifts in the soil bacterial community along a salinity gradient in the Yellow River Delta by Zhao, Qingqing, Bai, Junhong, Gao, Yongchao, Zhao, Haixiao, Zhang, Guangliang, Cui, Baoshan

“…Soil salinization has rapidly encroached from the coastline to inland areas over the past two decades in the Yellow River Delta (YRD). Soil samples were…”
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Sustaining crop production in China's cropland by crop residue retention: A meta‐analysis by Zhao, Xin, Liu, Bing‐Yang, Liu, Sheng‐Li, Qi, Jian‐Ying, Wang, Xing, Pu, Chao, Li, Shuai‐Shuai, Zhang, Xiong‐Zhi, Yang, Xiao‐Guang, Lal, Rattan, Chen, Fu, Zhang, Hai‐Lin

“…Crop residue retention (RR) is a recommended practice in China and globally. However, comprehensive assessment of changes and mechanisms affecting crop…”
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Biological Indices for Soil Quality Evaluation: Perspectives and Limitations by Paz‐Ferreiro, Jorge, Fu, Shenglei

“…Soil quality is threatened by the increase in human population and by the fact that most of the cultivable land is intensively used. The initial interest in…”
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Soil organic carbon stock as an indicator for monitoring land and soil degradation in relation to United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by Lorenz, Klaus, Lal, Rattan, Ehlers, Knut

“…Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in September 2015 aim to end hunger and poverty, to protect the Planet, and to ensure peace and…”
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Soil microbial diversity during 30 years of grassland restoration on the Loess Plateau, China: Tight linkages with plant diversity by Guo, Yanqing, Hou, Lijun, Zhang, Zhiying, Zhang, Jianli, Cheng, Jimin, Wei, Gehong, Lin, Yanbing

“…Restoring ecosystems has been a key strategy to combat land degradation and reverse losses in biodiversity. Because interactions between communities above and…”
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Agroforestry systems: Meta‐analysis of soil carbon stocks, sequestration processes, and future potentials by Shi, Lingling, Feng, Wenting, Xu, Jianchu, Kuzyakov, Yakov

“…Agroforestry (AF) has the potential to restore degraded lands, provide a broader range of ecosystem goods and services such as carbon (C) sequestration and…”
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Microbial and Enzyme Activities of Saline and Sodic Soils by Singh, Kripal

“…Salinization and sodication are abiotic soil factors, important hazards to soil fertility and consequently affect the crop production. Soil salinization is of…”
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Afforestation Drives Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Changes in China by Deng, Lei, Shangguan, Zhou‐ping

“…Afforestation has been proposed as an effective method of carbon (C) sequestration; however, the magnitude and direction of soil C and nitrogen (N) dynamics…”
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Effects of land use change on organic carbon dynamics associated with soil aggregate fractions on the Loess Plateau, China by Zhong, Zekun, Han, Xinhui, Xu, Yadong, Zhang, Wei, Fu, Shuyue, Liu, Weichao, Ren, Chengjie, Yang, Gaihe, Ren, Guangxin

“…Organic carbon (OC) sequestration through soil aggregation is an important aspect of land use change/conversion (LUCC) influencing the terrestrial ecosystem C…”
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Mortierella elongata's roles in organic agriculture and crop growth promotion in a mineral soil by Li, Fang, Chen, Lin, Redmile‐Gordon, Marc, Zhang, Jiabao, Zhang, Congzhi, Ning, Qi, Li, Wei

“…The addition of organic amendments contributes substantially to improvements in soil quality and prevents soil degradation. However, very little is known about…”
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Vegetation restoration in Northern China: A contrasted picture by Wang, Feng, Pan, Xubin, Gerlein‐Safdi, Cynthia, Cao, Xiaoming, Wang, Sen, Gu, Lianhong, Wang, Dongfang, Lu, Qi

“…China started a long‐term effort to mitigate desertification and ensure the sustainability of its environment by implementing multiple large‐scale national…”
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The Impact of Heavy Grazing on Soil Quality and Pasture Production in Rangelands of SW Spain by Pulido, Manuel, Schnabel, Susanne, Lavado Contador, Joaquín Francisco, Lozano‐Parra, Javier, González, Francisco

“…Soil degradation phenomena, including water erosion and physical and biological processes, have already been reported in rangelands of southwestern Spain. The…”
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Assessment and Monitoring of Soil Degradation during Land Use Change Using Multivariate Analysis by Khaledian, Yones, Kiani, Farshad, Ebrahimi, Soheila, Brevik, Eric C., Aitkenhead‐Peterson, Jacqueline

“…Not only are soil erosion and overall loss of soil fertility serious issues for loess‐derived soils of developing nations, such as Iran, but they are also…”
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