Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands : Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems - Mueller, Eva Nora.; Wainwright, John.; Parsons, Anthony J.; Turnbull, Laura; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Preface -- 1. Land Degradation in Drylands: An Ecogeomorphological Approach -- 2. The Study of Land Degradation in Drylands: State of the Art -- 3. Resilience, Self-organization, Complexity and Pattern Formation -- 4. Short-range Ecogeomorphic Processes in Dryland Systems -- 5. Long-range Ecogeomorphic Processes -- 6. Integrating Short- and Long-range Processes into Models: the Emergence of Pattern -- 7. Approaches to Modelling Ecogeomorphic Systems -- 8. Characterizing Patterns -- 9. Assessment of Patterns in Ecogeomorphic Systems -- 10. Uncertainty assessment -- 11. Vegetation Change in the Southwestern USA: Patterns and Processes -- 12. Vegetation Mosaics of Arid Western New South Wales, Australia: Considerations of Their Origin and Persistence -- 13.  Case Study of Self-organized Vegetation Patterning in Dryland Regions of Central Africa -- 14.  Abandonment of Agricultural Land, Agricultural Policy and Land Degradation in Mediterranean Europe -- 15. Land Degradation in Drylands: Reёvaluating Pattern-process Interrelationships and the Role of Ecogeomorphology -- Index.
Keywords: Soil science; Soil conservation; Soil Science & Conservation