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100 1 _aMueller, Eva Nora.
_eeditor.
245 1 0 _aPatterns of Land Degradation in Drylands
_h[electronic resource] :
_bUnderstanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems /
_cedited by Eva Nora Mueller, John Wainwright, Anthony J. Parsons, Laura Turnbull.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aXI, 389 p. 100 illus., 57 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aPreface -- 1. Land Degradation in Drylands: An Ecogeomorphological Approach -- 2. The Study of Land Degradation in Drylands: State of the Art -- 3. Resilience, Self-organization, Complexity and Pattern Formation -- 4. Short-range Ecogeomorphic Processes in Dryland Systems -- 5. Long-range Ecogeomorphic Processes -- 6. Integrating Short- and Long-range Processes into Models: the Emergence of Pattern -- 7. Approaches to Modelling Ecogeomorphic Systems -- 8. Characterizing Patterns -- 9. Assessment of Patterns in Ecogeomorphic Systems -- 10. Uncertainty assessment -- 11. Vegetation Change in the Southwestern USA: Patterns and Processes -- 12. Vegetation Mosaics of Arid Western New South Wales, Australia: Considerations of Their Origin and Persistence -- 13.  Case Study of Self-organized Vegetation Patterning in Dryland Regions of Central Africa -- 14.  Abandonment of Agricultural Land, Agricultural Policy and Land Degradation in Mediterranean Europe -- 15. Land Degradation in Drylands: Reёvaluating Pattern-process Interrelationships and the Role of Ecogeomorphology -- Index.
520 _aLand degradation in drylands is a multi-faceted problem. Consequently, current management approaches that attempt to mitigate such land degradation often fail to produce significant improvements. The processes associated with land degradation in drylands fall at the interface of ecology and geomorphology. For a better understanding of this degradation, there is a need to uncover the underlying dynamics and characteristic responses to environmental drivers and human-induced disturbances. A primary characteristic of this land degradation is a change in processes and the emergence of patterns; but there remain many unknowns as to how these changing processes and emerging patterns are connected. In the first section of this keystone manual, the theory of ecogeomorphic pattern-process linkages is explored, establishing an integrated view of current concepts of pattern emergence and self-organization from an ecogeomorphic perspective.  The second section of the book explores methods for confronting models with data for the study of pattern-process linkages, bringing together divergent empirical and modelling methodologies to provide a fully integrated understanding of land degradation in drylands. Four case studies from drylands in Europe, Africa, Australia and North America outline the advances in ecogeomorphic research that have been made in these systems. Learning from this diverse range of studies and approaches, a research agenda for the emerging field of ecogeomorphology in land-degradation studies in drylands is set forth.
650 0 _aEnvironmental sciences.
650 0 _aSoil conservation.
650 1 4 _aEnvironment.
650 2 4 _aSoil Science & Conservation.
700 1 _aWainwright, John.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aParsons, Anthony J.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aTurnbull, Laura.
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710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5727-1
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