3-7: Desertification

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Intercontinental Transport of Dust and Pathogens
  
  

Websites

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Soil and Trouble
  
  
• Desertification Threatens One-Fifth of Global Population
  
  
• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
  
  
• China's Dust Bowl is Growing at an Alarming Rate, by Lester Brown
  
  
• Image of Lake Chad
  
  

Additional References

• Thomas, D. S. G., M. Knight, and G. F. S. Wiggs, 2005: Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming. Nature, 435, 1218-1221.
  
  
• Gilles, J., 2005: The dustiest place on Earth. Nature, 434, 816-819.
  
  
• Kaiser, J., 2004: Wounding Earth's fragile skin. Science, 304, 1616-1618.
  
  
• Stokstad, E., 2004: Defrosting the carbon freezer of the North. Science, 304, 1618-1620.
  
  
• Pennisi, E., 2004: The secret life of fungi. Science, 304, 1620-1622.
  
  
• Lal, R. 2004: Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security. Science, 304, 1623-1627.
  
  
• McNeill, J.R., and V. Winiwarter, 2004: Breaking the sod: Humankind, history,and soil. Science, 304, 1627-1629.
  
  
• Wardle, D.A., R.D. Bardgett, J.N. Klironomos, H. Setala, W.H. van der Putten, and D.H. Wall, 2004: Ecological linages between aboveground and belowground biota. Science, 304, 1629-1633.
  
  
• Young, I.M., and J.W. Crawford, 2004: Interactions and self-organization in the soil-microbe complex. Science, 304, 1634-1637.
  
  
• Cyranoski, D., 2003: China plans clean sweep on dust storms. Nature, 421, 101
  
  
• Nicholson, S. E., et al., 1998: Desertification, Drought, and Surface Vegetation: An Example from the West African Sahel. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 815-829.
  
  
• Naeth, M. Anne, and David S. Chanasyk, 1996: Runoff and Sediment Yield Under Grazing in Foothills Fescue Grasslands of Alberta. Water Resources Bulletin, 32, 89-95.
  
  
• Pimentel, et al., 1995: Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits. Science 267, 1111-1237.
  
  
• Crosson, Pierre, 1995: Soil Erosion Estimates and Costs. Science, 269, 461-463.
  
  
• Daily, Gretchen C., 1995: Restoring Value to the World's Degraded Lands. Science, 269, 350-354.
  
  
• Glantz, Michael H., 1994: Drought Follows the Plow. Cambridge University Press 197 pp.
  
  
• El-Baz, F., 1990: Do People Make Deserts? New Scientist, October 13, 41-44.