Sentence examples for desertification areas from inspiring English sources

The TGSI was less strongly correlated with albedo in the low and non desertification areas, at 0.70 and 0.92; respectively.

Thirdly, rocky desertification is the ratio of rocky desertification area to the total area of this region.

The forest coverage in Zunyi city is about 53.08 %; besides, the karst area accounts for 75%% of total area of Zunyi and the rocky desertification area takes up 18.79 % of the karst area.

According to Zhou Shengxian, director of the State Forestry Administration, China is one of the countries that are seriously affected by desertification, with 400 mln people living in the desertification area.

Strong correlations (0.77 0.92) between TGSI and albedo were found in the non-desertification areas.

In order to reduce widespread degradation in desertification prone areas, there is an urgent need to understand the mechanisms controlling human-induced degradation processes in semi-arid ecosystems.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Rapid Land Cover Change provides data and information on global and regional land cover change in raster format for agriculture (cropland increase and disease), deforestation (forest mask and hotspots), desertification (hotspot areas of degraded land and degradation types), and fires (most frequent and exceptional fires).

Fig. 4 desertification susceptibility areas for main indicators.

Because of the wider ecological adaptability, P. juliflora had been extensively planted in the 1970s and 1980s in deforested and desertification prone areas for reclamation as well as a source of fuelwood and fodder for rural community (Pasiecznik et al. 2001, 2004).

Studied region showed desertification-prone areas with 63% high-risk level of desertification.

The common point of all these articles is the high efficiency of ESAs method for recognizing desertification-prone areas.