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Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China
The temporal trends and key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert are representatives of most arid regions of Asia with a high risk of desertification. We analyzed the significance of Aeolian transport on desertification in the Mu Us Desert by field investigations, sampling, wind tun...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28638114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04363-8 |
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author | Wang, Xunming Cheng, Hong Li, Hui Lou, Junpeng Hua, Ting Liu, Wenbin Jiao, Linlin Ma, Wenyong Li, Danfeng Zhu, Bingqi |
author_facet | Wang, Xunming Cheng, Hong Li, Hui Lou, Junpeng Hua, Ting Liu, Wenbin Jiao, Linlin Ma, Wenyong Li, Danfeng Zhu, Bingqi |
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description | The temporal trends and key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert are representatives of most arid regions of Asia with a high risk of desertification. We analyzed the significance of Aeolian transport on desertification in the Mu Us Desert by field investigations, sampling, wind tunnel experiments, particle size and nutrient measurements, and statistics on aeolian transport potentials. The results showed that high intensities of aeolian processes may result in low differences in aeolian transport despite differences in the underlying sediments. When high desertification occurred in the 1970s, the annual losses of the ammonium N, nitrate N, available K, and available P were approximately 116, 312, 46,436, and 1,251 kg km(−2), respectively. After 2010, the losses were only 8, 20, 3,208, and 84 kg km(−2), which were generally only 6.7% of those in the 1970s. The results showed that although human activity may trigger desertification, the dramatic decline of aeolian transport and low nutrient loss may be the key driving forces for the occurrence of rehabilitation in this region. |
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spelling | pubmed-54798212017-06-23 Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China Wang, Xunming Cheng, Hong Li, Hui Lou, Junpeng Hua, Ting Liu, Wenbin Jiao, Linlin Ma, Wenyong Li, Danfeng Zhu, Bingqi Sci Rep Article The temporal trends and key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert are representatives of most arid regions of Asia with a high risk of desertification. We analyzed the significance of Aeolian transport on desertification in the Mu Us Desert by field investigations, sampling, wind tunnel experiments, particle size and nutrient measurements, and statistics on aeolian transport potentials. The results showed that high intensities of aeolian processes may result in low differences in aeolian transport despite differences in the underlying sediments. When high desertification occurred in the 1970s, the annual losses of the ammonium N, nitrate N, available K, and available P were approximately 116, 312, 46,436, and 1,251 kg km(−2), respectively. After 2010, the losses were only 8, 20, 3,208, and 84 kg km(−2), which were generally only 6.7% of those in the 1970s. The results showed that although human activity may trigger desertification, the dramatic decline of aeolian transport and low nutrient loss may be the key driving forces for the occurrence of rehabilitation in this region. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5479821/ /pubmed/28638114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04363-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Xunming Cheng, Hong Li, Hui Lou, Junpeng Hua, Ting Liu, Wenbin Jiao, Linlin Ma, Wenyong Li, Danfeng Zhu, Bingqi Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China |
title | Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China |
title_full | Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China |
title_fullStr | Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China |
title_short | Key driving forces of desertification in the Mu Us Desert, China |
title_sort | key driving forces of desertification in the mu us desert, china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28638114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04363-8 |
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