It is to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and stop biodiversity loss. Earth’s …

•Biodiversity loss to reach 38–46% by 2050. •The cost of ecosystem services lost through land degradation is estimated at approximately 6 trillion USD per year or ar loss of more than 10% …

2024年9月26日 · Desertification is a type of land degradation in which an already relatively dry land area becomes increasingly arid, degrading productive soil and losing its bodies of water, …

1997年12月1日 · Studies of breeding birds and small mammals were conducted at a series of sites that form a gradient of severity of desertification. Desert grassland sites represented the …

The objective of SLEM is to prevent and control of land degradation by restoration of degraded lands by biomass covering and harvesting in ways that maximize productivity as well as …

2024年10月1日 · While everyone seems to agree that desertification “ranks among the greatest environmental challenges of our time” (UN, 2021), nobody can agree on exactly what it is, and …

2007年1月1日 · Revegetation of degraded areas using native plant species is one approach by which desertification can be reversed (Chirino et al. 2009), but is often challenging because …

2024年12月1日 · Desertification acted indirectly on fauna by deteriorating plant and soil traits. Soil fauna is closely linked to ecological functions such as biogeochemical cycling, soil structure, …

Desertification is associated with biodiversity loss and contributes to global climate change through loss of carbon sequestration capacity and an increase in land-surface albedo. …

From a species loss perspective, it is transformation of natural or semi-natural vegetation to agricultural fields or settlement that has the biggest impact on biodiversity, often resulting in a …