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Desertification

Desertification is a process of land degradation in drylands characterized by the persistent loss of ecosystem functionality and productivity due to climatic variations and human activities, distinguishable from other forms of environmental change by its specific occurrence in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions.

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Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems

P. R. Shukla, J. Skeg, E Calvo Buendia et al. · 2019 · 3.7K citations

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Desert Ecosystems: Environment and Producers

Imanuel Noy‐Meir · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1973 · 3.4K citations

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Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

Jianping Huang, Haipeng Yu, Xiaodan Guan et al. · Nature Climate Change · 2015 · 2.6K citations

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Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification

William H. Schlesinger, James F. Reynolds, Gary L. Cunningham et al. · Science · 1990 · 2.5K citations

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Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

Xiaoming Feng, Bojie Fu, Shilong Piao et al. · Nature Climate Change · 2016 · 2.1K citations

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  1. FT
    Fernando T. Maestre

    Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

    52 publications · 10K citations

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  2. AG
    Andrew Goudie

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    44 publications · 3.7K citations

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  3. DS
    David S.G. Thomas

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    36 publications · 4.4K citations

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  4. ZD
    Zhibao Dong

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    44 publications · 2.5K citations

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  5. GJ
    Giora J. Kidron

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    46 publications · 2.8K citations

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    131 h-index

    4.9K publications

    320.2K citations

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    76 h-index

    1.1K publications

    53.5K citations

  3. Lanzhou University

    Lanzhou, China

    74 h-index

    981 publications

    100.7K citations

  4. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    68 h-index

    381 publications

    35.8K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    67 h-index

    474 publications

    49.7K citations

  6. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

    Beijing, China

    67 h-index

    686 publications

    46K citations

  7. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    61 h-index

    320 publications

    28.9K citations

  8. Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography

    Ürümqi, China

    61 h-index

    861 publications

    45.2K citations

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  1. Journal of Arid Environments

    666 publications · 43.1K citations

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  2. CATENA

    229 publications · 13.7K citations

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  3. Land Degradation and Development

    194 publications · 12.8K citations

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  4. Geomorphology

    111 publications · 8.2K citations

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  5. The Science of The Total Environment

    197 publications · 10.5K citations

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