Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mueller, Eva Nora (Editor), Wainwright, John (Editor), Parsons, Anthony J. (Editor), Turnbull, Laura (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Soil Science & Conservation.

Land 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 geomorph...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 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.