Vegetation establishment on the southern Israeli coastal sand dunes between the years 1965 and 1999

Kutiel, Pua; Cohen, Oded; Shoshany, Maxim; Shub, Merav

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(03)00035-5

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“…In Israel, studies indicate a relation between dune stabilization in the second half of the twentieth century and concomitant changes in land management practices, particularly the suppression of various forms of disturbance (cutting of vegetation, grazing, and trampling: Tsoar and Karnieli, 1996;Tsoar and Blumberg, 2002;Kutiel et al, 2004;Seifan, 2009;Fig. 5).…”

Section: Examining Controls Of Dune Activitymentioning

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Remote sensing and spatial analysis of aeolian sand dunes: A review and outlook

Hugenholtz

Levin

Barchyn

et al. 2012

Earth-Science Reviews

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Section: Examining Controls Of Dune Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Remote sensing and spatial analysis of aeolian sand dunes: A review and outlook

Hugenholtz

Levin

Barchyn

et al. 2012

Earth-Science Reviews

177

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“…In the long geological history of the earth, carbon stocks in vegetation are almost the only source of oxygen in the atmosphere, determining the trend of the earth's environment. Vegetation coverage has changed dynamically over time, which is of vital importance to global climate change and the creation of environmental policies [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Fractional vegetation coverage (FVC) is a sensitive and important ecological parameter for describing vegetation biomes and ecosystems, and for responding to regional or global environmental change, which is defined as the ratio of the vertical vegetation projected area and surface area within the observation region [13][14][15].…”

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Human Activity Influences on Vegetation Cover Changes in Beijing, China, from 2000 to 2015

et al. 2017

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For centuries, the rapid development of human society has already made human activity the dominant factor in the terrestrial ecosystem. As the city of greatest importance in China, the capital Beijing has experienced eco-environmental changes with unprecedented economic and population growth during the past few decades. To better understand the ecological transition and its correlations in Beijing, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Operational Land Imager (OLI) images were used to investigate vegetation coverage changes using a dimidiate pixel model. Piecewise linear regression, bivariate-partial correlation analysis, and factor analysis were applied to the probing of the relationship between vegetation coverage changes and climatic/human-induced factors. The results showed that from 2000 to 2005, 2005 to 2010, and 2010 to 2015, Beijing experienced both restoration (6.33%, 10.08%, and 12.81%, respectively) and degradation (13.62%, 9.35%, and 9.49%, respectively). The correlation analysis results between climate and vegetation changes demonstrated that from 2000 to 2015, both the multi-year annual mean temperature (r = −0.819, p < 0.01) and the multi-year annual mean precipitation (r = 0.653, p < 0.05) had a significantly correlated relationship with vegetation change. The Beijing-Tianjin Sandstorm Source Control Project (BTSSCP) has shown beneficial spatial effects on vegetation restoration; the total effectiveness in conservation areas (84.94 in 2000-2010) was much better than non-BTSSCP areas (34.34 in 2000-2010). The most contributory socioeconomic factors were the population (contribution = 54.356%) and gross domestic product (GDP) (contribution = 30.677%). The population showed a significantly negative correlation with the overall vegetation coverage (r = −0.684, p < 0.05). The GDP was significantly negatively correlated with vegetation in Tongzhou, Daxing, Central city, Fangshan, Shunyi, and Changping (r = −0.601, p < 0.01), while positively related in Huairou, Miyun, Pinggu, Mentougou and Yanqing (r = 0.614, p < 0.01). These findings confirm that human activity is a very significant factor in impacting and explaining vegetation changes, and that some socioeconomic influences on vegetation coverage are highly spatially heterogeneous, based on the context of different areas.

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“…The recorded annual growth rate of R. monosperma coverage on the investigated spit was found to be 9.8 times that which Kutiel et al (2004a) found for the total vegetation coverage (1.8%; 34 yr.) in plant-colonized coastal dunes under Mediterranean climate of southern Israel. In that study, the expansion of vegetation was found to be related to the dune stabilization process and to a decrease in the abundance of sand-dwelling organisms.…”

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“…The process involves significant changes in dune geomorphology and other environmental characteristics, such as lower incidence of wind and salt spray and increases in soil organic matter and nutrients (El-Bana et al, 2002;Muñoz Vallés et al, 2011) as well as in the type of flora and fauna supported by the dunes (Lichter, 1998;Levin and Ben-Dor, 2004;Plassmann et al, 2010). In different parts of the world, dune stabilization is having a negative impact on the richness and diversity of dune plant and animal species of high conservation value, and is becoming an important environmental problem (Avis, 1995;Alvarez and Cushman, 2002;Conser and Connor, 2009;Isermann et al, 2007;Isermann, 2008;Kutiel et al, 2004a;Marchante et al, 2008;Wiedemann and Pickart, 1996). At present, fixation and stabilization of coastal dunes are identified by several authors as one of the main threats to these ecosystems (Isermann et al, 2007;Jørgensen and Kollmann, 2008;Kutiel et al, 2004a).…”

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Long-term spatio-temporal expansion of the native-invasive Retama monosperma on coastal dunes: Importance of land-use and natural dispersal vectors

Vallés¹,

Gallego‐Fernández²,

Dellafiore³

et al. 2013

Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

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a b s t r a c tExpansion of invasive species inducing sands stabilization is becoming an important ecological problem in coastal dunes in some parts of the world. Retama monosperma, an endemic to coasts of SE Spain and NE of Morocco, late-colonizing shrub occurring in sandy coastal areas, was planted along the coast of SW Spain during the 20th century to stabilize dunes. In recent decades, the species has spread rapidly, becoming invasive, and sometimes incurring notable changes in its environment and plant community. The expansion patterns of R. monosperma from 1956 to 2001 were described and quantified at the landscape scale within a protected dune system, using GIS. The differential effects on expansion patterns of the main factor controlling the population spread, grazing by domestic livestock and the abundance of wild rabbits, were analyzed comparatively. R. monosperma displays an exponential, invasive-type expansion trend, presenting a mean annual coverage increase of 15% and a mean lateral spread rate of 65.5 m yr −1 from the original population nucleus to the Western and Eastern ends of the study area. The dispersal activity primarily of rabbits and the absence of competing woody species contribute to this rapid expansion. The highest local increases in plant coverage could be related to increased rabbit abundance and to the improved germination rates of seeds which have passed through the rabbit gut. In contrast, areas highly grazed by livestock present the lowest increases, and an open-type plant community is maintained there for a longer time.

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Vegetation establishment on the southern Israeli coastal sand dunes between the years 1965 and 1999

Cited by 94 publications

References 19 publications

Remote sensing and spatial analysis of aeolian sand dunes: A review and outlook

Remote sensing and spatial analysis of aeolian sand dunes: A review and outlook

Human Activity Influences on Vegetation Cover Changes in Beijing, China, from 2000 to 2015

Long-term spatio-temporal expansion of the native-invasive Retama monosperma on coastal dunes: Importance of land-use and natural dispersal vectors

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