Global desertification vulnerability to climate change and human activities

• Published in: Land degradation & development Vol. 31; no. 11; pp. 1380 - 1391
• Main Authors: Huang, Jianping, Zhang, Guolong, Zhang, Yanting, Guan, Xiaodan, Wei, Yun, Guo, Ruixia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 15.07.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Africa; Aridity; Barren lands; China; Climate change; Desertification; dryland; Ecosystem assessment; evolution; human activities; humans; India; land degradation; land restoration; North America; Probability density functions; probability distribution; Rehabilitation; Risk; subhumid zones; vulnerability index; North America; China; Africa; India

Desertification is the impoverishment of arid, semiarid, and some subhumid ecosystems. The assessment of global scale desertification vulnerability to climate change and human activity is important to help decision makers formulate the best strategies for land rehabilitation and combat global desert...