Sentence examples for prone to desertification from inspiring English sources
Eastern Mediterranean ecosystems are prone to desertification when under grazing pressure.
In specific, the effectiveness of a combination of CVA and MAD/MAF is investigated in change detection studies in arid and semi-arid areas, naturally prone to desertification processes.
Therefore, based on impact degree of indicators regarding desertification susceptibility, more than 20% of Taybad-Bakharz region shows susceptible and prone area to desertification.
The results showed that indicators considered for geology criterion are main factors affecting desertification, so that about 88% areas are prone-area to desertification.
Biotic soil crust species are small and inconspicuous, but they efficiently stabilize soils in habitats prone to erosion and desertification (Harper and Marble 1988; Mazor et al. 1996; Leys and Eldridge 1998).
Food security, livelihoods and people's health were noted as being directly at risk in drylands and drought-prone areas subject to desertification and in small island developing states.
Rain will fall harder in the places where it falls today, increasing flooding; but in places already prone to drought things will by and large get drier, sometimes to the point of desertification.
The most immediate threat to dryland areas is desertification -- the thinning out of vegetation -- brought on by intensive human settlement of lands prone to drought.
He was prone to hallucinations.
They're prone to violence.
