Desert vegetation plays significant roles in securing the ecological integrity of oasis ecosystems in western China. Timely monitoring of photosynthetic/non-photosynthetic desert vegetation cover is necessary to guide management practices on land desertification and research into the mechanisms driving vegetation recession. In this study, nonlinear spectral mixture effects for photosynthetic/no...

Planting shrub seedlings under oil mulches has frequently been used for stabilizing mobile sands in Iran for during the last three decades. Sandy desert of Samad Abad, Sarakhs, northeast Iran, has been fixed by cultivating seedling of Haloxylon aphyllum under the oil mulches. Therefore this study was designed to investigate the effects of the sand fixation project on soil and vegetation propert...

Abstract. The purpose. the study is aimed at introduction and adaptive assessment of perennial fodder plants from collection Uzbek Research Institute Karakul Breeding Desert Ecology for use in restoration arid degraded pasture ecosystems semi-desert zone southern Russia. Methods. An was made capabilities, including: response to drought, frost resistance, productivity, nutritional value shrubs f...

Land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC) alters landscape patterns and affects regional ecosystems. The objective of this study was to examine LCLUC and landscape patterns in Ebinur Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve (ELWNNR) and Ganjia Lake Haloxylon Forest National Nature Reserve (GLHFNNR), two biodiversity-rich national nature reserves in the Ebinur Lake Watershed (ELW), Xinjiang, China. Lan...

The low productivity of pastures and its sharp fluctuations in the desert regions Central Asia are due to natural-historical factors this natural zone. However, recent years, these shortcomings have been further aggravated as a result rapid growth population, continuous development industry transport areas, pressure anthropogenic man-made on vegetation soil is increasing from year year. This ca...