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Ping Yan, Kairong Lin, Yiren Wang, Xinjun Tu, Chunmei Bai and Luobin Yan
Understanding the spatial variability of soil organic matter (SOM) is crucial for implementing precise land degradation control and fertilization to improve crop productivity. Studying spatial variability provides a scientific basis for precision fertili...
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Tuo Wang, Gregory Giuliani, Anthony Lehmann, Yangming Jiang, Xiaodong Shao, Liping Li and Huihui Zhao
The essence of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations is described in 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 15 focuses on Life on Land, in other words, terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as their se...
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Ekaterina Strikeleva, Iskandar Abdullaev and Tais Reznikova
Land degradation is a key issue for Central Asia as an agrarian region. Land degradation in Central Asia is usually seen as a technological challenge and corresponding solutions are associated with the improvement of land-use technology. However, the rea...
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Jie Xu, Meng Mu, Yunbing Liu, Zheng Zhou, Haihua Zhuo, Guangsheng Qiu, Jie Chen, Mingjun Lei, Xiaolong Huang, Yichi Zhang and Zheng Ren
Assessing Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) related with aquaculture areas is vital for evaluating the impacts of aquaculture ponds on the environment and developing a sustainable aquaculture production system. Most studies analyze changes in aquacu...
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Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman, Ahmed A. Afifi and Antonio Scopa
In the current study the processes of soil deterioration over the past five decades was evaluated. Land degradation risk, status, and rate were assessed in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, in 2016 using OLI and ETM (2002) remote sensing data, and soil ...
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Vincent Chaplot and Macdex Mutema
Soil erosion is one of the most critical threats to cultivated land. Yet little information is available in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially on the relative contributions of various forms of erosion. Therefore, this study?s objective was to quantify soil l...
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Pantelis Sidiropoulos, Nicolas R. Dalezios, Athanasios Loukas, Nikitas Mylopoulos, Marios Spiliotopoulos, Ioannis N. Faraslis, Nikos Alpanakis and Stavros Sakellariou
Natural and anthropogenic causes jointly lead to land degradation and eventually to desertification, which occurs in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas. Furthermore, extended drought periods may cause soil exposure and erosion, land degradation and, ...
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Annamária Laborczi, Csaba Bozán, János Körösparti, Gábor Szatmári, Balázs Kajári, Norbert Túri, György Kerezsi and László Pásztor
Inland excess water is temporary water inundation that occurs in flat-lands due to both precipitation and groundwater emerging on the surface as substantial sources. Inland excess water is an interrelated natural and human induced land degradation phenom...
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Ahsen Maqsoom, Bilal Aslam, Usman Hassan, Zaheer Abbas Kazmi, Mahmoud Sodangi, Rana Faisal Tufail and Danish Farooq
Land degradation caused by soil erosion is considered among the most severe problems of the 21stcentury. It poses serious threats to soil fertility, food availability, human health, and the world ecosystem. The purpose of the study is to make a quantitat...
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Ramandeep Kaur M. Malhi, Akash Anand, Prashant K. Srivastava, G. Sandhya Kiran, George P. Petropoulos and Christos Chalkias
Forest degradation is considered to be one of the major threats to forests over the globe, which has considerably increased in recent decades. Forests are gradually getting fragmented and facing biodiversity losses because of climate change and anthropog...
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Lázaro Zuquette, Moisés Failache and Ademir Barbassa
This paper presents a procedure to study depressional wetlands in southern Brazil and focuses on the mechanisms controlling water dynamics and environmental degradation due to anthropogenic interference. The study is based on an inventory of wetlands, a ...
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Lucian Simionesei, Tiago B. Ramos, Ana R. Oliveira, Marjan Jongen, Hanaa Darouich, Kirsten Weber, Vânia Proença, Tiago Domingos and Ramiro Neves
The southern Iberian Peninsula is characterized by evergreen oak woodlands (locally known as montado), which constitute an important savanna-type agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem. This ecosystem is facing a progressive decline for several reasons, with the ...
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James E. Vogelmann, Phung Van Khoa, Do Xuan Lan, Jacob Shermeyer, Hua Shi, Michael C. Wimberly, Hoang Tat Duong and Le Van Huong
Landsat time series data were used to characterize forest degradation in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. We conducted three types of image change analyses using Landsat time series data to characterize the land cover changes. Our analyses concentrated on the...
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Zahn Münch, Perpetua I. Okoye, Lesley Gibson, Sukhmani Mantel and Anthony Palmer
Land cover change analysis was performed for three catchments in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, for two time steps (2000 and 2014), to characterize landscape conversion trajectories for sustained landscape health. Land cover maps were derived: (1)...
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Zahn Münch, Perpetua I. Okoye, Lesley Gibson, Sukhmani Mantel and Anthony Palmer
Land cover change analysis was performed for three catchments in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, for two time steps (2000 and 2014), to characterize landscape conversion trajectories for sustained landscape health. Land cover maps were derived: (1)...
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Catherine DeLong, Richard Cruse and John Wiener
Soil degradation can take many forms, from erosion to salinization to the overall depletion of organic matter. The expression of soil degradation is broad, and so too are the causes. As the world population nears eight billion, and the environmental unce...
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Hikmet Günal, Tayfun Korucu, Marta Birkas, Engin Özgöz and Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir
A diverse topography along with deforestation, changing climatic conditions, long-term human settlement, overuse of agricultural lands without sustainable planning, cultural difficulties in accepting conservative land management practices, and wrong poli...
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TAMIRAT TESHOME, LULEKAL ERMIAS
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Land degradation because of land use and land cover change is severe phenomena in Ethiopia which is mainly caused by lack of appropriate land use policy and feasible land use plan. The understanding of land use and land cover change is vital to determine...
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