Publications [#333228] of James F. Reynolds
search PubMed.Book Chapters
- Reynolds, JF, Desertification,
in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity: Second Edition, edited by H Anheier & M Juergensmeyer
(January, 2013),
pp. 479-494, SAGE Publications, Inc. [n129], [doi] .
(last updated on 2023/06/01)Abstract:
The phenomenon of desertification involves the loss of biological or economic productivity and biodiversity in arid and semiarid croplands, pastures, rangelands, and subhumid woodlands due mainly to nonsustainable human activities, such as overcultivation, fuel gathering, overgrazing by domestic animals, deforestation, and poor irrigation practices, and often triggered or exacerbated by climate variability, mainly drought.