The physical and chemical characteristics of soil water sources affect desert plants’ growth, which is essential for the ecological protection in arid areas. typical patch patterns Haloxylon ammodendron oasis-desert ecotone southern margin Manas River Basin consists bare patches (BP) vegetation (VP). H. were studied using stable isotope technology, properties monitored analyzed. results showed ...

Oasification and desertification are two essential processes of land use cover (LULC) change in arid regions. Compared to desertification, which is widely regarded as the most severe global ecological issue, importance oasification has not received universal recognition. However, neglecting can lead detrimental outcomes effectiveness governance by affecting comprehensiveness environmental polic...

The investigation of water resource carrying capacity (WRCC) in oasis cities Northwest China is useful for guiding the sustainable development arid regions. To quantify WRCC Shihezi, an city Manas River Basin (MRB), China, a total 21 indicators from three subsystems were selected to construct evaluation index system based on theory resource–socio-economic–ecological complex system. Our study ut...

Axiom-pinpointing refers to the task of understanding the specific axioms that cause a consequence to follow from an ontology. The main problems related to axiom-pinpointing are the computation of minimal subontologies from which the consequence still follows (MinAs) or maximal subontologies not satisfying a property (MaNAs). Equivalently, one can try to compute a pinpointing formula, which is ...