Desertification
Resource Link
Publisher
Elsevier Inc.
Publication Year
2001
Body
The phenomenon of desertification involves the loss of biological or economic productivity and biodiversity in arid and semiarid croplands, pastures, rangelands, and subhumid woodlands due mainly to nonsustainable human activities, such as overcultivation, fuel gathering, overgrazing by domestic animals, deforestation, and poor irrigation practices, and often triggered or exacerbated by climate variability, mainly drought.
Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Book
Book Title
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
Collection
Keywords
desertification
southern Africa
Journal articles from the Grassland Society of Southern Africa (GSSA) African Journal of Range and Forage Science as well as related articles and reports from throughout the southern African region.