Desertification and global change
dc.contributor.author | Verstraete, Michel M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schwartz, S. A. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T13:58:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T13:58:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1991-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Verstraete, M. M.; Schwartz, S. A.; (1991). "Desertification and global change." Vegetatio 91 (1-2): 3-13. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43891> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0042-3106 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-5052 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43891 | |
dc.description.abstract | Arid and semiarid regions cover one third of the continental areas on Earth. These regions are very sensitive to a variety of physical, chemical and biological degradation processes collectively called desertification. Although interest in desertification has varied widely in time, there is a renewed concern about the evolution of dryland ecosystems because (1) a significant fraction of existing drylands already suffers from miscellaneous degradation processes, (2) increasing populations will inevitably result in further over-utilization of the remaining productive areas, (3) climatic changes expected from the greenhouse warming might result in drier continental interiors, and (4) some of the desertification processes themselves may amplify local or regional climatic changes. This paper reviews some of the many aspects of this issue in the context of the Global Change research program. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Plant Sciences | en_US |
dc.title | Desertification and global change | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, The University of Michigan, 48109-2143, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | CEC Joint Research Centre, Ispra Establishment, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, TP 440, I-21020, Ispra (Varese), Italy | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43891/1/11258_2004_Article_BF00036043.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00036043 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Vegetatio | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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