نتایج جستجو برای: vegetation degradation

تعداد نتایج: 196873  

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015
Armel T Kaptué Lara Prihodko Niall P Hanan

Over many decades our understanding of the impacts of intermittent drought in water-limited environments like the West African Sahel has been influenced by a narrative of overgrazing and human-induced desertification. The desertification narrative has persisted in both scientific and popular conception, such that recent regional-scale recovery ("regreening") and local success stories (community...

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009
Benjamin I Cook Ron L Miller Richard Seager

The "Dust Bowl" drought of the 1930s was highly unusual for North America, deviating from the typical pattern forced by "La Nina" with the maximum drying in the central and northern Plains, warm temperature anomalies across almost the entire continent, and widespread dust storms. General circulation models (GCMs), forced by sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from the 1930s, produce a drought, but ...

Journal: :The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 2012

2014
J A Dickie A J Parsons

2 Abstract Vegetation type and cover play an important role in the operation of geomorphological processes by controlling runoff and sediment dynamics. In drylands, land degradation is particularly sensitive to these eco-geomorphic interactions. Whilst many geomorphological studies of land degradation focus on the change in hydrological response as a function of vegetation cover, few have inves...

2016
Marike Trytsman Robert H. Westfall Philippus J. J. Breytenbach Frikkie J. Calitz Abraham E. van Wyk

The principal aim of this study was to establish biogeographical patterns in the legume flora of southern Africa so as to facilitate the selection of species with agricultural potential. Plant collection data from the National Herbarium, South Africa, were analysed to establish the diversity and areas covered by legumes (Leguminosae/Fabaceae) indigenous to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. A...

2015
Gabriella Balacco Benedetto Figorito Eufemia Tarantino Andrea Gioia Vito Iacobellis

The vegetation space-time variability during 1999-2010 in the North of the Apulian region (Southern Italy) was analysed using SPOT VEGETATION (VGT) sensor data. Three bands of VEGETATION (RED, NIR and SWIR) were used to implement the vegetation index named reduced simple ratio (RSR) to derive leaf area index (LAI). The monthly average LAI is an indicator of biomass and canopy cover, while the d...

Journal: :Demographic research 2012
Raphael J Nawrotzki Lori M Hunter Thomas W Dickinson

BACKGROUND Although natural resources play a central role in rural livelihoods across the globe, little research has explored the relationship between migration and natural capital use, particularly in combination with other livelihood capitals (i.e., human, social, financial and physical). OBJECTIVE Grounded in the rural livelihood framework, this paper explores the association between the l...

Journal: :IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2003
Alfredo R. Huete Tomoaki Miura Xiang Gao

A number of indicators and signals that lend themselves to monitoring by remote-sensing satellites provide a warning of land degradation. These include loss of vegetative cover, wind and water erosion, soil salinization, deterioration of the soil structure, drier soil, increased reflectance, higher land surface temperatures, and changes in land cover type. But because soil and vegetation change...

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