#drylands — Public Fediverse posts

#HumanActivities exert a more significant influence on soil multifunctionality (SMF) than #ClimateChange in China’s #Drylands, and well-planned ecological restoration was likely to sustain and enhance SMF over time, particularly in hyper-arid areas.

#GrainForGreen | #Fencing | #EcologicalEngineering | #SoilFunctions

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf165

The ultimate neoliberal “dreamworld” – on desert sand without water
Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling

* "The Dubai project requires demanding visitors and expats to not think too much about the suffering or question what goes on beyond the city’s borders. And how that city came to be built in the first place."

"The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/dubai-influencers-expats-denial-middle-east-crisis

* Living Well at Others' Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity, Stephan Lessenich, 2019, Polity Press >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=living-well-at-others-expense-the-hidden-costs-of-western-prosperity--9781509525621

#WesternProsperity #GlobalInequality #wealth #inequality #externalisation #mobility #Dubai #drylands #settlersociety #WilfulBlindness #CrumblingDreams #FossilFuels #oil #water #war #WarZone #ClimateCrisis

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Soil multifunctionality in the face of #ClimateChange and human impact in China’s #Drylands

#HumanActivities | #GrainForGreen | #Fencing | #EcologicalEngineering

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf165

Drylands (Biomes 🌍)

Drylands are defined by a scarcity of water. Drylands are zones where precipitation is balanced by evaporation from surfaces and by transpiration by plants. The United Nations Environment Program defines drylands as tropical and temperate areas with an aridity index of less than 0.65. Drylands can be classified into four sub-types: Dry sub-humid lands Semi-arid lands Arid lands Hyper-arid lands Some authorities re...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drylands

#Drylands #Biomes

Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/09/drylands-now-make-up-40-of-land-on-earth-excluding-antarctica-study-says

40% of Earth’s Land Is Now Drylands, Excluding Antarctica, Research Finds https://www.ecowatch.com/earth-drylands-aridity-climate-change.html

#environment #land #drylands

Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/09/drylands-now-make-up-40-of-land-on-earth-excluding-antarctica-study-says
#climatechange #climatecollapse #desert #desertification #drylands

If I were President, I'd put the armed forces and the young people to work repairing collapsing ecosystems.

“The ultimate end to a growth economy is the same as an analogous growth: cancer. But for national economies, the victims are nature, soils, forests, people, water, and quality of life. There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to. We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.”
– Bill Mollison
#permaculture #restoration #EarthRepair #earthworks #drylands #water #soil

"Nearly half of the world's land is now classified as #drylands, and a new study reveals these regions are rapidly accelerating their own expansion, posing significant risks to global ecosystems and human livelihoods."

https://krishijagran.com/agriculture-world/climate-change-expands-drylands-transforms-52-million-square-kilometers-of-humid-land-study-finds/
#ClimateChange

Hace algo más de 2 años se publicó un artículo que sugería que las #sequías en zonas áridas (#drylands) eran capaces de autopropagarse por interacciones entre suelo y atmósfera (📰 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00912-7; 🗞️ https://www.europapress.es/ciencia/habitat/noticia-sequia-autopropaga-incendios-forestales-20220422173649.html). Ahora, parece que este fenómeno va ganando relevancia.

Las zonas áridas han aumentado en el mundo un 9% desde los años 80 y una parte importante podría deberse a la autopropagación 🔄

📰 https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adn6833

#CambioClimático

La variedad de formas, soluciones y respuestas a las condiciones más extremas supera con mucho a las de las especies de las áreas húmedas.

Articulazo sobre, una vez más, el valor de las especies adaptadas a condiciones áridas.

#Ecología #Biodiversidad #Drylands

🗞️ https://elpais.com/ciencia/2024-08-08/hay-tanta-diversidad-en-las-zonas-aridas-como-en-las-selvas-o-en-los-bosques.html

📰 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07731-3.epdf?sharing_token=oBdpyeWHRDEUwMNHDSoggdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MHT3rrL7mGyieJtdsWKdVCs3XE5otaL9ewXu2sBvTvYQykuCQJSBqBXVlokec2l_8V0y2arlp7w6zF5eINu-y1XjnM-BpAf-AkLE-8Jo_mEsBzs-kVCyBlxmlJRSARTzg%3D

7-AUG-2024
#Plants show surprising diversity in arid landscape

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053816

#science #ecology #drylands #aridity

"A new study that compared wheat & buckwheat success rates in a high #CO2 atmosphere, plus the temperatures & drought conditions that we can expect in the coming decades, found buckwheat survived & produced its crop of seeds in conditions that killed wheat or severely curtailed grain production. Buckwheat also has the advantage of being gluten-free & rich in fiber & minerals. Because it flowers for months, it is also a favorite for bees & other insects. One plus for farmers is it likes poor soils so no expensive fertilizers are needed." [and it improves the #soil]
#permaculture #drylands
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/05/weatherwatch-buckwheat-global-heating?

Drylands (Biomes 🌍)

Drylands are defined by a scarcity of water. Drylands are zones where precipitation is balanced by evaporation from surfaces and by transpiration by plants. The United Nations Environment Program defines drylands as tropical and temperate areas with an aridity index of less than 0.65. One can classify drylands into four sub-types: Dry sub-humid lands Semi-arid lands Arid lands Hyper-arid landsSome authorities reg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drylands

#Drylands #Biomes

Drylands (Biomes 🌍)

Drylands are defined by a scarcity of water. Drylands are zones where precipitation is balanced by evaporation from surfaces and by transpiration by plants. The United Nations Environment Program defines drylands as tropical and temperate areas with an aridity index of less than 0.65. One can classify drylands into four sub-types: Dry sub-humid lands Semi-arid lands Arid lands Hyper-arid landsSome authorities reg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drylands

#Drylands #Biomes

4/ More: #syntropicfarming #AridPermaculture #drylands

Voices from #Kenya #drylands speak to camerawoman #HildaKathure and demand #OilyMoneyOut https://vimeo.com/drsooze/oilyvoices
@vanessa_vash
@juststop_oil
@money_rebellion @scientistsx

"El aumento de la fotosíntesis debido al elevado #CO2 podría provocar el agotamiento del agua debido al consumo excesivo por el crecimiento de las plantas impulsado por ese CO₂, especialmente en zonas secas (#drylands)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00960-w

Esto se suma a trabajos previos donde veian que la vegetación en los drylands (>70% de España) ha aumentado su sensibilidad a la precipitación y, por tanto, su vulnerabilidad a la sequía a causa de aumentos en la superficie foliar

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32631-3

🚨 New collaborative results from the lab:
Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine
#soil #stable_isotopes #post_mining #drylands
https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/9/231/2023/

Due to #ClimateChange and unsustainable #landuse, up to 20% of the world's #drylands are no longer intact. These ecosystems contribute significantly to #biodiversity. This is how #SoilDegradation can be prevented using the exaple of #Namibia: https://www.isoe.de/en/news/african-savannas-social-ecological-research-with-the-aim-to-protect-soils/ #WorldSoilDay

And here's the video (now uploaded) summarzing the scientific paper Maestre et al., 2022, @sciencemagazine

thanks for watching!
#ecology #drylands #grazing #science #research #outreach #scicomm

If you want to know more about this work pls watch the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8diTv61m0Fg

👇 & read the full article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq4062

Or the super thread @ftmaestre (🐦 ) wrote in his profile explaining everything.

I still don't have many contacts in mastodon, so if you know people/institutions involved in this research, please share it with them!
Thanks and enjoy!

#UniversidaddeAlicante #IPBES #UNCCD #Biodesert #ERCResearch #ScienceResearch #Drylands #scicomm #Ecology

🦣 #introduction

My research @kassel university looks at #drought and #migration dynamics in #Morocco. Think: #livelihoods #landscapes #agroforestry #adaptation #maladaptation #vulnerability #water scarcity #MENA #drylands and #NBS

My PhD research focused on #swidden #farming #communities in #Myanmar. Think: #chin state #governance, #LandRights #LandGrabbing, #agroecology #LocalKnowledge #conservation

Free time: #gardening #photography #dogs #forests #trees #MartialArts

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