Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

Advances in Water Resources - Tập 51 - Trang 326-344 - 2013
Paolo D’Odorico1, Abinash Bhattachan1, Kyle Frankel Davis1, Sujith Ravi2, Christiane W. Runyan1
1Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 291 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123, USA
2Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

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