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Showing items 27433 through 27441 of 73561.Desertification is an escalating concern in global drylands, yet assessments to guide management and policy responses are limited by ambiguity concerning what this term means and what processes are involved.
1. China's Grain for Green Project is a rapid landscape-scale shift in ground cover and land use with significant implications for biodiversity.
The recent browning (increase in color) of surface waters across much of the northern hemisphere has important implications for light climate, ecosystem functioning, and drinking water treatability.
The traditional desertification paradigm focuses on the losses of ecosystem services that typically occur when grasslands transition to systems dominated by bare (unvegetated) ground or by woody plants that are unpalatable to domestic livestock.
West Nile Virus (WNV) was first detected in the Texas equine population during June 2002. Infection has since spread rapidly across the state and become endemic in the equine population.
The U.S. Federal Government implements environmental, biofuels and crop insuranceprograms that influence land use.
The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey Rhinopithecus bieti is endemic to China, where its population is fragmented into 15 isolated groups and threatened despite efforts to protect the species.
Semi-natural grassland islands have a key role in slowing down biodiversity decline in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes.
There is an emerging consensus among macro-economists that differences in technology across countries accounts for the major differences in per-capita GDP and the wages of workers with similar skills across countries.
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