Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development

By J. Reynolds, D. Smith, Eric F. Lambin, Billie L. Turner II, M. Mortimore, S. Batterbury, Thomas E. Downing, Hadi Dowlatabadi, R. Fernández, J. Herrick and 7 more. Science, 2007

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Land-Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science (2008, background): “In yet another effort, land-change research permeates the Drylands Development Paradigm (146), which offers a template for both research and application for sustainable land practices in arid lands by linking the coupled systems approach with the coproduction of knowledge and practice.”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Resilience and Vulnerability of Arid and Semi-Arid Social Ecological Systems Anticipating Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dryland Pastoral Systems: Using Dynamic Systems Models for the Kalahari (2010, background): “Therefore, both the academic literature (e.g., Warren 2002, Reynolds et al. 2007) and the global policy statements via the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) now recognize the need for integrated research, based on global change and sustainability science, to provide more…”
Are Socioeconomic Benefits of Restoration Adequately Quantified? A Meta‐analysis of Recent Papers (2000–2008) in Restoration Ecology and 12 Other Scientific Journals (2010, background): “In sharp contrast, the arid and semiarid areas—which cover 41% of the land surface and are home to almost 3 billion people or circa 38% of the global population (Reynolds et al. 2007)—account for only 5% of the restoration “hits” in RE and only 3% in the OJ.”
Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis (2011, background): “…( drylands ; rainfall £ 850 mm, range: 200–850 mm; median: 400 mm) because land degradation is a key environmental issue in these ecosystems (Reynolds et al. 2007), and because the encroachment–degradation (desertification) paradigm was initially developed for the boundary between arid…”
Making Investments in Dryland Development Work: Participatory Scenario Planning in the Makanya Catchment, Tanzania (2008, background): “…Canada, 4International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka Dryland agro-ecosystems are, however, inherently dynamic, with rapid rates of social and ecological change, making it difficult to predict their future development (Mortimore 2005, Reynolds et al. 2007, Gordon et al. 2008).”
Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination (2018, background): “The biogeophysical characteristics of drylands make them vulnerable to global change drivers such as climate change and disturbances associated with land-use change (Reynolds et al. 2007; Seastedt and Pyšek 2011; Bestelmeyer et al. 2015; Ferrenberg et al. 2015; Maestre et al. 2016).”
Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands (2013, background): “These ecosystems are currently threatened by climate change and desertification, with potentially irreversible impacts (Reynolds et al. 2007; Maestre et al. 2012).”
Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands (2015, background): “Land degradation and desertification already affect ∼250 million people in the developing world (17).”
Restoration Ecology: Interventionist Approaches for Restoring and Maintaining Ecosystem Function in the Face of Rapid Environmental Change (2008, background): “ Restoring plant cover in arid lands in Africa and elsewhere that have been degraded through overgrazing, overuse or neglect during war and famine, in order to both stabilise the environment and provide livelihoods, food and fuel for huge numbers of people (6, 27-29).”
Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem (2020, background): “However, variation in plant functional traits can allow for the stable coexistence of species within a plant community by facilitating spatial and temporal niche partitioning (Reich, 2014; Reynolds et al., 2007; Schwinning & Ehleringer, 2001; Silvertown et al., 2015).”
Institutional and political leadership dimensions of cascading ecological crises (2011, background): “Similar cases of complex causality have been observed for challenges such as desertification (Reynolds et al. 2007), the degradation of coral reef ecosystems (Nyström et al.”
Biological soil crusts greatly contribute to small-scale soil heterogeneity along a grazing gradient (2013, background): “We sampled only once, as our studied soil properties are mostly slowly changing variables considering ecosystem dynamics, in that they have long turnover times (Carpenter and Turner, 2000; Reynolds et al., 2007 ).”