Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification
Drylands cover nearly half of Earth’s surface, yet how they will fare in light of anthropogenic climate change is debated. Here the authors find that over the past 40 years climate change has pushed ~13% of drylands towards desertification threatening hundreds of millions of people in developing nat...
Main Authors: | A. L. Burrell, J. P. Evans, M. G. De Kauwe |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-07-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17710-7 |
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