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Unfolding the Success of Positive Human Interventions in Combating Land Degradation. FORESTS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/f13060818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
A global challenge to sustainable development is land degradation, and to achieve land degradation neutrality, monitoring, mapping, and impact assessment of ongoing ecological restoration efforts is necessary. Here, we analyze the desertification process and role of restoration projects at a spatial and temporal scale in Mu Us Desert from 2001 to 2018. We used 17 years of data to (1) assess the vegetation trend including its significance and map land degradation based on Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 15.3.1 (2) address how vegetation activity has changed under the influence of restoration programs and climate change (3) estimate how successful are the positive human interventions to achieve Land degradation neutrality. Results showed an overall increasing vegetation trend (85.69% significant increasing) and a partial decreasing vegetation trend (1.33% significant decreasing) in Mu Us desert. Ecological restoration activities are found to be one of the key driving forces of vegetation restoration in the desert, however, limited impact of climatic factors on vegetation cover change was observed. Results revealed that 41.42% of total significant restoration is attributed to ecological restoration programs out of which 40.42% area has shown improvement in all three sub-indicators of land degradation.
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Kastner T, Marques A, Martins IS, Plutzar C, Theurl MC, Eisenmenger N, Huijbregts MAJ, Wood R, Stadler K, Bruckner M, Canelas J, Hilbers JP, Tukker A, Erb KH, Pereira HM. Reply to: Soils need to be considered when assessing the impacts of land-use change on carbon sequestration. Nat Ecol Evol 2019; 3:1643-1644. [PMID: 31686019 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-1029-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 10/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Thomas Kastner
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands. .,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. .,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.
| | - Inês S Martins
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
| | - Christoph Plutzar
- Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Michaela C Theurl
- Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Nina Eisenmenger
- Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Mark A J Huijbregts
- Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
| | - Richard Wood
- Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
| | - Konstantin Stadler
- Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
| | - Martin Bruckner
- Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Business and Economics, Vienna, Austria
| | - Joana Canelas
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.,Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
| | - Jelle P Hilbers
- Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.,Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Delft, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.,CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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