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    Land Degradation & Development: Volume 32, Issue 1

    i, 1-532
    15 January 2021
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Guanguang Chen,  Dongxia Yue,  Yanyan Zhou,  Dong Wang,  Hai Wang,  Cang Hui,  Jianjun Guo, 
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  • First Published: 06 January 2021
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The cover image is based on the Research Article Driving factors of community-level plant functional traits and species distributions in the desert-wetland ecosystem of Shule River, China by Guanguang Chen et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3624.

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  • Pages: 1-2
  • First Published: 06 January 2021

EDITORIAL

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Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded land in arid and semiarid environments: Editorial

Miriam Muñoz-Rojas,  Paloma Hueso-Gonzalez,  Cristina Branquinho,  Thomas Baumgartl, 
  • Pages: 3-6
  • First Published: 03 September 2020

RESEARCH ARTICLES

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Usage of MODIS NDVI to evaluate the effect of soil and water conservation measures on vegetation in Burkina Faso

Clement Nyamekye,  Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt,  Leonard K. Amekudzi,  Benewinde J.-B. Zoungrana,  Michael Thiel, 
  • Pages: 7-19
  • First Published: 12 May 2020
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Assessing the response of vegetation photosynthesis to meteorological drought across northern China

Hao-jie Xu,  Xin-ping Wang,  Chuan-yan Zhao,  Xue-mei Yang, 
  • Pages: 20-34
  • First Published: 24 June 2020
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Perception of communities when managing exclosures as common pool resources in northwestern Ethiopia

Wolde Mekuria,  Kindie Getnet,  Mastewal Yami,  Simon Langan,  Dagninet Amare, 
  • Pages: 35-48
  • First Published: 08 June 2020
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From land productivity trends to land degradation assessment in Mozambique: Effects of climate, human activities and stakeholder definitions

Frédérique Montfort,  Agnès Bégué,  Louise Leroux,  Lilian Blanc,  Valéry Gond,  Armindo H. Cambule,  Ivan A. D. Remane,  Clovis Grinand, 
  • Pages: 49-65
  • First Published: 28 June 2020
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Two hyperspectral indices for detecting cadmium and lead contamination from arice canopy spectrum

Shuangyin Zhang,  Teng Fei,  Xiang You,  Yinkang Wan,  Yunjiang Wang,  Meng Bian, 
  • Pages: 66-78
  • First Published: 15 July 2020
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Introduced goats reduce diversity and biomass of herbs in Caatinga dry forest

Tatiane Menezes,  Rodrigo Carmo,  Rainer Wirth,  Inara R. Leal,  Marcelo Tabarelli,  André Laurênio,  Felipe P. L. Melo, 
  • Pages: 79-90
  • First Published: 10 June 2020
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Temporal heterogeneity has no effect on the direction of succession in abandoned croplands in a semiarid area of northwest China

An Hu,  Sheng-Hua Chang,  Xian-Jiang Chen,  Fu-Jiang Hou,  Zhi-Biao Nan, 
  • Pages: 91-100
  • First Published: 26 September 2020
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Development of degraded ravine lands of Western India using Sapota (Achras zapota) plantation with terracing vs. trenching-on-slope-based conservation measures

Raj Kumar,  Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj,  Battu Krishna Rao,  Anand Kumar Vishwakarma,  Pratap Ray Bhatnagar,  Sridhar Patra,  Gopal Kumar,  Vijaysinha Kakade,  Dhakshanamoorthy Dinesh,  Vinod Chandra Pande,  Gaurav Singh,  Sneha Dobhal,  Narinder Kumar Sharma, 
  • Pages: 101-111
  • First Published: 08 June 2020
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Where are mines located in sub Saharan Africa and how have they expanded overtime?

Abdulkareem I. Ahmed,  Robert G. Bryant,  David P. Edwards, 
  • Pages: 112-122
  • First Published: 29 June 2020
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Saline Soil Reclamation Index as an efficient tool for assessing restoration progress of saline land

Sheikh Adil Edrisi,  Vishal Tripathi,  Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi,  Dinesh Kumar Dubey,  Girish Patel,  Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash, 
  • Pages: 123-138
  • First Published: 01 May 2020
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Spatiotemporal variations and driving factors of the potential wind erosion rate in the Hexi region, PR China

Jinkuo Lin,  Qingyu Guan,  Ninghui Pan,  Rui Zhao,  Liqin Yang,  Chuanqi Xu, 
  • Pages: 139-157
  • First Published: 24 June 2020
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Assessing UN indicators of land degradation neutrality and proportion of degraded land for Botswana using remote sensing based national level metrics

Felicia O. Akinyemi,  Gohar Ghazaryan,  Olena Dubovyk, 
  • Pages: 158-172
  • First Published: 15 June 2020
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Variation in soil geochemical properties and microbial communities in areas under land developed for educational use (university and other campuses)

Yong Teng,  Qixing Zhou, 
  • Pages: 173-182
  • First Published: 18 June 2020
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Soil available nitrogen and phosphorus affected by functional bacterial community composition and diversity as ecological restoration progressed

Honglei Wang,  Lianyan Bu,  Fangqin Song,  Jing Tian,  Gehong Wei, 
  • Pages: 183-198
  • First Published: 29 June 2020
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Assessment of depth-dependent microbial carbon-use efficiency in long-term fertilized paddy soil using an 18O–H2O approach

Mostafa Zhran,  Tida Ge,  Yaoyao Tong,  Yangwu Deng,  Xiaomeng Wei,  Tin Mar Lynn,  Zhenke Zhu,  Jinshui Wu,  Anna Gunina, 
  • Pages: 199-207
  • First Published: 30 June 2020
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Processes controlling the development of talus slopes in SW Spitsbergen: The role of deglaciation and periglacial conditions

Krzysztof Senderak,  Marta Kondracka,  Bogdan Gądek, 
  • Pages: 208-223
  • First Published: 04 July 2020
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Desertification risk assessment in Northeast Brazil: Current trends and future scenarios

Rita Marcia D. S. P. Vieira,  Javier Tomasella,  Alexandre A. Barbosa,  Minella A. Martins,  Daniel A. Rodriguez,  Fernanda S. D. Rezende,  Felix Carriello,  Marcos D. O. Santana, 
  • Pages: 224-240
  • First Published: 25 May 2020
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Wind erosion of soil influenced by clay amendment in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA

Huawei Pi,  David R. Huggins,  Brenton Sharratt, 
  • Pages: 241-255
  • First Published: 02 July 2020
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Composition and diversity of prokaryotes at an iron ore post-mining site revealed the natural resilience 10 years after mining exploitation

Emanuelle Burgos Cardoso,  Paulo Prates Júnior,  Marliane de Cássia Soares da Silva,  Alan Emanuel Silva Cerqueira,  Thuany Cerqueira Jordão,  Bruno Coutinho Moreira,  Eduardo Gusmão Pereira,  Maria Catarina Megumi Kasuya, 
  • Pages: 256-269
  • First Published: 03 July 2020

REVIEW ARTICLES

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Investigating microplastic dynamics in soils: Orientation for sampling strategies and sample pre-procession

Collin Joel Weber,  Christoph Weihrauch,  Christian Opp,  Peter Chifflard, 
  • Pages: 270-284
  • First Published: 16 May 2020

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Accelerating the development of artificial biocrusts using covers for restoration of degraded land in dryland ecosystems

Yang Zhao,  Nan Wang,  Zhishan Zhang,  Yanxia Pan,  Rongliang Jia, 
  • Pages: 285-295
  • First Published: 05 July 2020
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Soil aggregation accounts for the mineral soil organic carbon and nitrogen accrual in broadleaved forests as compared to that of coniferous forests in Northeast China: Cross-sites and multiple species comparisons

Chenhui Wei,  Qiong Wang,  Manli Ren,  Zhongxue Pei,  Jiali Lu,  Huimei Wang,  Wenjie Wang, 
  • Pages: 296-309
  • First Published: 19 July 2020
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Infrared spectroscopy approaches support soil organic carbon estimations to evaluate land degradation

Bernard G. Barthès,  Jean-Luc Chotte, 
  • Pages: 310-322
  • First Published: 04 July 2020
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Driving factors of community-level plant functional traits and species distributions in the desert-wetland ecosystem of the Shule River Basin, China

Guanguang Chen,  Dongxia Yue,  Yanyan Zhou,  Dong Wang,  Hai Wang,  Cang Hui,  Jianjun Guo, 
  • Pages: 323-337
  • First Published: 17 April 2020
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Response of soil characteristics and bacterial communities to nitrogen fertilization gradients in a coastal salt-affected agroecosystem

Rongjiang Yao,  Jinsong Yang,  Xiangping Wang,  Wenping Xie,  Fule Zheng,  Hongqiang Li,  Cong Tang,  Hai Zhu, 
  • Pages: 338-353
  • First Published: 29 June 2020
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Monitoring Matang's Mangroves in Peninsular Malaysia through Earth observations: A globally relevant approach

Richard Lucas,  Viviana Otero,  Ruben Van De Kerchove,  David Lagomasino,  Behara Satyanarayana,  Temilola Fatoyinbo,  Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, 
  • Pages: 354-373
  • First Published: 11 May 2020
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Trade-offs between forage crop productivity and soil nutrients for different ages of alfalfa grassland

Yan Fang,  Ze Huang,  Zeng Cui,  Hong-Hua He,  Yu Liu, 
  • Pages: 374-386
  • First Published: 03 June 2020
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Land degradation and climate change: Global impact on wheat yields

Maria Raimondo,  Concetta Nazzaro,  Giuseppe Marotta,  Francesco Caracciolo, 
  • Pages: 387-398
  • First Published: 21 June 2020
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Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and nutrient limitation under a natural secondary succession of vegetation on the Loess Plateau, China

Yang Wu,  Wenjing Chen,  Qiang Li,  Ziqi Guo,  Yuanze Li,  Ziwen Zhao,  Jiaying Zhai,  Guobin Liu,  Sha Xue, 
  • Pages: 399-409
  • First Published: 19 July 2020
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Nitrogen rhizodeposition by legumes and its fate in agroecosystems: A field study and literature review

Xiquan Wang,  Yadong Yang,  Kuan Pei,  Jie Zhou,  Leanne Peixoto,  Anna Gunina,  Zhaohai Zeng,  Huadong Zang,  Jim Rasmussen,  Yakov Kuzyakov, 
  • Pages: 410-419
  • First Published: 24 July 2020
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Significant dose effects of fertilizers on soil diazotrophic diversity, community composition, and assembly processes in a long-term paddy field fertilization experiment

Jianlei Wang,  Qingkang Li,  Congcong Shen,  Fengting Yang,  Jichen Wang,  Yuan Ge, 
  • Pages: 420-429
  • First Published: 02 August 2020

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Win–win path for ecological restoration

Shixiong Cao,  Chengqi Xia,  Weiming Li,  Junli Xian, 
  • Pages: 430-438
  • First Published: 11 August 2020

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Impact of land management practices on water use strategy for a dryland tree plantation and subsequent responses to drought

Xiaodong Gao,  Hongchen Li,  Xining Zhao, 
  • Pages: 439-452
  • First Published: 05 June 2020
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Hillslope soil erosion and mobility in pine plantations and native deciduous forest in the coastal range of south-Central Chile

Felipe Aburto,  Eduardo Cartes,  Oscar Mardones,  Rafael Rubilar, 
  • Pages: 453-466
  • First Published: 24 June 2020
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Effects of carbon-based materials and redmuds on metal(loid) immobilization and growth of Salix dasyclados Wimm. on a former mine Technosol contaminated by arsenic and lead

Manhattan Lebrun,  Reinhart Van Poucke,  Florie Miard,  Gabriella S. Scippa,  Sylvain Bourgerie,  Domenico Morabito,  Filip M. G. Tack, 
  • Pages: 467-481
  • First Published: 19 July 2020
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Effects of frame beam on structural characteristics of artificial soil on railway cut-slopes in southwestern China

Xiaoyan Ai,  Meihua Sheng,  Xiaoqiao Su,  Shenghao Ai,  Xue Jiang,  Siqian Yang,  Zhiyu Huang,  Yingwei Ai, 
  • Pages: 482-493
  • First Published: 13 July 2020
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Optimizing irrigation and fertilization can improve degraded saline soils and increase wheat grain yield

Fupeng Song,  Yuping Zhuge,  Xinsong Guo,  Yanhong Lou,  Hui Wang,  Hong Pan,  Haojie Feng, 
  • Pages: 494-504
  • First Published: 03 June 2020
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Land-use conversion changes deep soil organic carbon stock in the Chinese Loess Plateau

Bin-Bin Li,  Pan-Pan Li,  Xiao-Mei Yang,  Hai-Bing Xiao,  Ming-Xiang Xu,  Guo-Bin Liu, 
  • Pages: 505-517
  • First Published: 05 May 2020
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Salt-tolerant broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) resists salt stress via modulation of cell wall biosynthesis and Na+ balance

Yu Hao Yuan,  Jing Li,  Hong Chi Ma,  Qing Hua Yang,  Chun Juan Liu,  Bai Li Feng, 
  • Pages: 518-532
  • First Published: 04 July 2020