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Yuguang Lyv, Wei Qiao, Weichi Chen, Xianggang Cheng, Mengnan Liu and Yingjie Liu
The new Shanghai No. 1 Coal Mine is located in arid and semiarid area of northwest China, which is characterized by scarce rainfall, intense evaporation, and limited water resources. High-intensity coal mining has caused severe damage to groundwater reso...
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Carlos G. Ochoa, Federico Villarreal-Guerrero, Jesús A. Prieto-Amparán, Hector R. Garduño, Feng Huang and Carlos Ortega-Ochoa
For this study, conducted in a semiarid (318 mm) rangeland setting in the Chihuahuan Desert region in northern Mexico, we evaluated the seasonal and interannual variability of precipitation, vegetation, and groundwater relations. Between 2012 and 2014, a...
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Lidia Yadira Perez-Aguilar, Wenseslao Plata-Rocha, Sergio Alberto Monjardin-Armenta, Cuauhtémoc Franco-Ochoa and Yedid Guadalupe Zambrano-Medina
Arid and semiarid regions are geographic units that cover approximately 43% of the earth?s surface worldwide, and conditions of extreme drought and reduced vegetation cover predominate in these regions. In Mexico, arid and semiarid ecosystems cover more ...
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Paulina Alejandra Pontifes,Paola Massyel García-Meneses,Laura Gómez-Aíza,Alejandro Ismael Monterroso-Rivas,Margarita Caso Chávez
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Arid and semi-arid lands in Mexico dominate 60% of the national territory. They harbor many endemic species, as well as a large proportion of the population, and offer diverse ecosystem services. These regions are subjected to anthropogenic impacts deriv...
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Felipe M. Pinheiro,P. K. Ramachandran Nair
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Aim of study: Silvopastoral system (SPS) involving numerous indigenous trees and shrubs is a traditional land-use system in the Caatinga, but it has little been studied scientifically. Given the importance of SPS as a sustainable land-use strategy in the...
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Claudia Sangüesa, Roberto Pizarro, Ben Ingram, Francisco Balocchi, Pablo García-Chevesich, Juan Pino, Alfredo Ibáñez, Carlos Vallejos, Romina Mendoza, Alejandra Bernal, Rodrigo Valdés-Pineda and Felipe Pérez
The availability of water in Chile has shown signs of decline in recent decades. This is problematic because Chile?s economy depends on mining, forestry, and agricultural activities, all limited by the availability of water resources. In this study, dail...
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Christina Chaski, Kyriakos D. Giannoulis, Alexios A. Alexopoulos and Spyridon A. Petropoulos
The scarcity of water is limiting crop production and is one of the most important stressors that severely affects crop yield, and it may also decrease the quality of the final products. Most of the medicinal and aromatic plants are considered resilient ...
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Kamaleddin Aghaloo and Yie-Ru Chiu
Rainwater-harvesting (RWH) agriculture has been accepted as an effective approach to easing the overexploitation of groundwater and the associated socioeconomic impacts in arid and semiarid areas. However, the stability and reliability of the traditional...
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Sha Lou, Wenrui Huang, Shuguang Liu and Guihui Zhong
Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of the population increase over the last century. Water scarcity is one of the main problems facing the world, especially the scarcity of clean and safe drinking water. Scarcity of drinking ...
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Claudia Sangüesa, Roberto Pizarro, Alfredo Ibañez, Juan Pino, Diego Rivera, Pablo García-Chevesich and Ben Ingram
This study aims to determine if there is variation in precipitation concentrations in Chile. We analyzed daily and monthly records from 89 pluviometric stations in the period 1970?2016 and distributed between 29°12' S and 39°30' S. This area was divided ...
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Claudia Sangüesa, Roberto Pizarro, Alfredo Ibañez, Juan Pino, Diego Rivera, Pablo García-Chevesich and Ben Ingram
This study aims to determine if there is variation in precipitation concentrations in Chile. We analyzed daily and monthly records from 89 pluviometric stations in the period 1970?2016 and distributed between 29°12' S and 39°30' S. This area was divided ...
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Margandan Karunanithi, Rachna Agarwal, Kushal Qanungo
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Most of the arid and semiarid zones of the Indian subcontinent are seriously affected by the fluorosis problem due to high concentration of the fluoride in ground water. Due to leaching of fluoride from the fluoride bearing rocks, the groundwater gets co...
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Janisson Batista de Jesus,Bruno Barros de Souza,Alisson Marcel Souza de Oliveira,Dráuzio Correia Gama
The semi-arid is a region of high temperatures and low rainfall conditions, and can be the gateway to the establishment of climatic processes that aggravate this aridity condition. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to identify the areas m...
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Emna Hfaiedh, Amor Ben Moussa, Marco Petitta and Ammar Mlayah
Hydrogeochemical properties and groundwater quality assessment are very important for the effective management of water resources in arid and semiarid regions. The present investigation is a spatiotemporal analysis of groundwater quality using both chemi...
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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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Guofeng Wang, Nan Lin, Xiaoxue Zhou, Zhihui Li and Xiangzheng Deng
Aiming to inspect the water use-related situation in the Heihe River Basin, we used a three-stage data envelopment analysis to examine agricultural water use efficiency (WUE) and related issues in the Heihe River Basin from 2004 to 2012. This method calc...
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Daxing Gu, Quan Wang, Dennis Otieno
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In arid and semiarid lands, canopy transpiration and its dynamics depend largely on stomatal sensitivity to drought. In this study, the sap flow of a dominant species, Haloxylon ammodendron growing in Central Asian deserts, was monitored using Granier-ty...
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Pedro Martínez-Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches, Daniel Solera, Beatriz Cano, Silvia Díaz-Alcaide
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While access to water remains an issue in arid and semiarid regions across the world, aquifers have the potential to help millions of people out of poverty by providing a reliable source of drinking and irrigation water. Manual boreholes are increasingly...
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Pedro Martínez-Santos, Miguel Martín-Loeches, Daniel Solera, Beatriz Cano and Silvia Díaz-Alcaide
While access to water remains an issue in arid and semiarid regions across the world, aquifers have the potential to help millions of people out of poverty by providing a reliable source of drinking and irrigation water. Manual boreholes are increasingly...
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Daxing Gu, Quan Wang and Dennis Otieno
In arid and semiarid lands, canopy transpiration and its dynamics depend largely on stomatal sensitivity to drought. In this study, the sap flow of a dominant species, Haloxylon ammodendron growing in Central Asian deserts, was monitored using Granier-ty...
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