Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

X Lian, S Piao, A Chen, C Huntingford, B Fu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Drylands are an essential component of the Earth System and are among the most
vulnerable to climate change. In this Review, we synthesize observational and modelling …

[HTML][HTML] Making Global Climate Action work for nature and people: Priorities for Race to Zero and Race to Resilience

I Boran, N Pettorelli, AC Köberle, RA Borges… - … Science & Policy, 2024‏ - Elsevier
There is increasing recognition in science and policy that the current nature and climate
change crises are highly intertwined, and that these need to be jointly addressed. Within the …

[HTML][HTML] Biocontrol of phytopathogens under aquaponics systems

T Rivas-García, RR González-Estrada… - Water, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Aquaponics is an alternative method of food production that confers advantages of
biological and economic resource preservations. Nonetheless, one of the main difficulties …

Assessment of land degradation in semiarid Tanzania—Using multiscale remote sensing datasets to support sustainable development goal 15.3

J Reith, G Ghazaryan, F Muthoni, O Dubovyk - Remote Sensing, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Monitoring land degradation (LD) to improve the measurement of the sustainable
development goal (SDG) 15.3. 1 indicator (“proportion of land that is degraded over a total …

The Influence of Abiotic Stress Factors on the Morphophysiological and Phytochemical Aspects of the Acclimation of the Plant Rhodiola semenowii Boriss

NV Terletskaya, NK Korbozova, NO Kudrina… - Plants, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Plants of the Crassulaceae family are natural accumulators of many medicinal secondary
metabolites (SM). This article describes the study of morphophysiological, anatomic and …

[HTML][HTML] Changing dietary behavior for better biodiversity preservation: a preliminary study

W Belgacem, K Mattas, G Arampatzis, G Baourakis - Nutrients, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Broadly consumed dietary patterns, such as the European and Western ones, are exerting
pressures on biodiversity both in Europe and globally, and shifting toward a sustainable …

From land productivity trends to land degradation assessment in Mozambique: Effects of climate, human activities and stakeholder definitions

F Montfort, A Bégué, L Leroux, L Blanc… - Land Degradation & …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Remote sensing observations such as normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) trends
can provide important insights into past and present land condition. However, they do not …

[HTML][HTML] Climatic zone and soil properties determine the biodiversity of the soil bacterial communities associated to native plants from desert areas of North-Central …

E Bona, N Massa, O Toumatia, G Novello, P Cesaro… - Microorganisms, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Algeria is the largest country in Africa characterized by semi-arid and arid sites, located in
the North, and hypersaline zones in the center and South of the country. Several …

[HTML][HTML] Local melon and watermelon crop populations to moderate yield responses to climate change in North Africa

SA Walters, M Abdelaziz, R Bouharroud - Climate, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Climate change is having a tremendous influence on world food production, with arid, semi-
arid, and dry sub-humid areas especially susceptible. In these areas, locally adapted crop …

Imaging spectroscopy for conservation applications

M Seeley, GP Asner - Remote Sensing, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
As humans continue to alter Earth systems, conservationists look to remote sensing to
monitor, inventory, and understand ecosystems and ecosystem processes at large spatial …