Ongoing water-resource depletion is a common trend in southeastern Kazakhstan and most of Central Asia, making the use drainage water for freshwater preservation groundwater recharge key strategy sustainable agriculture. Since Ily River inflow began to decrease, levels Shengeldy study area site have fallen below pipes. As such, our main research hypothesis was that owing infiltration, regional ...

Rising temperatures and aridification, combined with the stressing effect of some hemiparasitic plants such as mistletoes, may contribute to reduce vigour growth trees shrubs leading dieback increasing mortality. This has been rarely explored in pioneer junipers, which are assumed be more drought tolerant than coexisting trees. To test these ideas, we reconstructed radial patterns common junipe...