Soil Erosion-Desertification and the Middle Eastern Anthroscapes

Safriel, Uriel N.; Berliner, Pedro; Novoplansky, Ariel; Laronne, Jonathan B.; Karnieli, Arnon; Moshe, Itzhak; Kharabsheh, Atef; Mohammad, Ayed G.; Küsek, Gürsel

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14782-1_3

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“…There was relatively little difference between NPP pot and NPP obs within the Pine Plantation. Safriel et al [31] concluded that some of the environmental effects of afforestation were less than expected, and large improvements in the energy, water, and carbon exchanges have been reported [32,33]. While these observations might suggest that pine plantations are candidates for mitigation of degradation elsewhere, as has been suggested [34], it would be limited as many trees did not survive a drought and no regeneration has been observed [12].…”

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Land Use and Degradation in a Desert Margin: The Northern Negev

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Safriel

2021

Remote Sensing

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Degradation in a range of land uses was examined across the transition from the arid to the semi-arid zone in the northern Negev desert, representative of developments in land use taking place throughout the West Asia and North Africa region. Primary production was used as an index of an important aspect of dryland degradation. It was derived from data provided by Landsat measurements at 0.1 ha resolution over a 2500 km2 study region—the first assessment of the degradation of a large area of a desert margin at a resolution suitable for interpretation in terms of human activities. The Local NPP Scaling (LNS) method enabled comparisons between the observed NPP and the potential, nondegraded, reference NPP. The potential was calculated by normalizing the actual NPP to remove the effects of environmental conditions that are not related to anthropogenic degradation. Of the entire study area, about 50% was found to have a significantly lower production than its potential. The degree of degradation ranged from small in pasture, around informal settlements, minimally managed dryland cropping, and a pine plantation, to high in commercial cropping and extreme in low-density afforestation. This result was unexpected as degradation in drylands is often attributed to pastoralism, and afforestation is said to offer remediation and prevention of further damage.

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Land Use and Degradation in a Desert Margin: The Northern Negev

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Safriel

2021

Remote Sensing

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“…Nonetheless, rehabilitating the biological productivity potential of degraded lands is surely possible. In a particularly successful dryland afforestation program in Israel's Yatir Forest, soil carbon content on highly eroded drylands doubled within thirty-five years of planting (Safriel et al, 2010), even if land fertility today is still but a fraction of the original levels prior to overgrazing. The restoration process has just begun.…”

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The implications of environmental trading mechanisms on a future Zero Net Land Degradation protocol

Tal

2015

Journal of Arid Environments

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Soil Erosion-Desertification and the Middle Eastern Anthroscapes

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Land Use and Degradation in a Desert Margin: The Northern Negev

Land Use and Degradation in a Desert Margin: The Northern Negev

The implications of environmental trading mechanisms on a future Zero Net Land Degradation protocol

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