Sentence examples for drylands a from inspiring English sources

The study was conducted in Zapotitlán drylands, a locality within the Tehuacán Cuicatlán Valley, central Mexico, where a great variety of environments for crust development exist due to landscape fragmentation.

Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands is a collection of essays edited by Roy Behnke and the veteran drylands expert Mike Mortimore.

It will take time and effort to move livestock production in East African drylands towards a market-based insurance system, but these early efforts demonstrate the idea is at least feasible.

Land degradation and desertification consequences such as dust storms, drying of lakes, water scarcity, poverty and migration, and ultimately ecosystem collapse in Iran with more than 75% drylands require a carefully understanding of the desertification process and recognizing driving forces.

This is because the factor which is most influential to soil erosion, BSC development, is also among the most manageable, implying that water erosion in drylands has a solution.

In addition to the chapters from Mongolia, Syria, Tibet in China, Oman, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and India mentioned in this review, Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands contains a report on the Rungs of the Uttarakhand Himalayas, by Nisthasri Awasthi, and a study of the values inherent in Bedouin tent and contemporary house architecture in Jordan, by Wassef Al Sekhaneh.

The recent paper by Morillas et al. [Morillas, L. et al. Using radiometric surface temperature for surface energy flux estimation in Mediterranean drylands from a two-source perspective, Remote Sens. Environ. 136, 234 246, 2013] evaluates the two-source model (TSM) of Norman et al. (1995) with revisions by Kustas and Norman (1999) over a semiarid tussock grassland site in southeastern Spain.

Similarly, Meze-Hausken (2000) determined the adaptive capacity of farmers in African drylands using a combination of socioeconomic and environmental factors, including livestock keeping and non-agricultural income and/or remittances.

However, the extent to which the observed transition processes constitute a pathway to sustainable intensification of drylands is an intensively debated question (e.g. Beyene 2014; Catley et al. 2013; Greiner et al. 2013; Schmidt and Pearson 2016).

As a result, drylands can provide a range of goods and services, many of which are not effectively measured or sustainably or optimally exploited (Davies and Hatfield 2008).

Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands inculcates an understanding of both why and how to heed the pastoral voice in academia and governance.