Sentence examples for desertification expansion from inspiring English sources
Arid climate and unsustainable development strategy would accelerate desertification expansion.
The human activities have significantly changed the distribution and allocation of limited water resource in the basin, leading to a contradiction between desertification and expansion of oases.
The IPCC determined that the mediterranean biome as a whole is threatened by desertification from expansion of semi-arid and arid system under relatively minor warming and drying scenarios, and projects significant regional vegetation and species range shifts [28].
To the south east of the region (in Yemen), increased water scarcity and reduced water quality, increased drought frequency and expansion of desertification are predicted.
Analyses of existing data about P. juliflora invasion generated from a study by Haregeweyn et al. 2013) and climate data acquired from the Amibara weather station reveal that the P. juliflora invasion has been useful in moderating climate variables and reducing expansion of desertification in the Afar region (Ilukor et al. 2014).
In the northern region, increased desertification has seen the expansion of the Sahara desert southward, while pressure from population growth has made the area increasingly fragile.
Desertification is contributing to the expansion of these deserts.
The annual of expansion of land desertification increased from 1 600 km2 in the 1970s to 2 100 km2 during the 1980s.
Changes in land use, expansion of agricultural activities, population growth, climate change and desertification have progressively pushed pastoralists south as the savannahs become less favourable environments for both farmers and pastoralists (Blench 1996; Roma 2008; Mwiturubani and van Wyk 2010, Young and Goldman 2015).
The steady expansion of the Rann of Kutch threatened to increase desertification around the city area and much of the state; however, the Narmada Canal network is expected to alleviate this problem.
Expansion of agricultural activities will possibly threaten the local water balance and cause increased desertification.
