Relation between some variations of soil and surface vegetation and desertization in agriculture-pasture interlacing zon
The studied agriculture-pasture interlacing zone has itsspecific natural conditions, at which the natural systems areunstable, their self-regulation capability is low and theequilibrium is easily broken, and hence the habitat is fairlyvulnerable. During last 20 years the increasing population andlivestock, over-reclamation, over-pasturing, over-deforesting, andother intensified negative human activities in the zone resulted incoarsening of surface soil, decrease of organic mater content insoil, reduction of vegetation coverage, variation and degradationof flora structure, and hence in desertization of the land,although average of gales and sandstorms some decreased and theclimate tended to be better in the region. However, the frequentsandstorms occurring in the springs of last and present years hasattracted much attention. Investigations confirmed that the maincause for the phenomena is the unreasonable human activities ratherthan the natural factors.
作 者： SHENG Xue-bing Liu Yun-xia SUN Jian-zhong 作者单位： Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China 刊 名： 环境科学学报(英文版) ISTIC SCI 英文刊名： JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 年，卷(期)： 2003 15(1) 分类号： Q148 关键词： agriculture-pasture interlacing zone soil sandstorm desertization