Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands : Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems /

Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands : Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mueller, Eva Nora. (Editor), Wainwright, John. (Editor), Parsons, Anthony J. (Editor), Turnbull, Laura. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Soil science.
Soil conservation.
Soil Science & Conservation.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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