Vegetation in semi-arid environments (or regions with low rainfall) self-organizes into patterns or "bands." Banded vegetation is common where there is low rainfall. Scientists have used a ...

As a result, farmers in arid and semi-arid regions irrigate their fields with buried networks of irrigation tubing and cover the ground with plastic sheets. But plastic sheets are expensive and ...

Drylands refer to arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas ... Natural regeneration of vegetation cover and soils in arid areas takes 5-10 times longer than in favourable areas with greater ...

The techniques include removal of cattle or restriction of their access to specific areas of pasture; cultivation of cover crops ... in developing vegetation in semi-arid regions," Mendes said.

BEIJING - Chinese researchers have reconstructed precipitation changes in the recent 12,000 years of a transition zone in North China's arid and semi-arid regions. The East Asian summer monsoon ...

a characteristic that makes it suitable for arid and semi-arid regions. Besides the fruits, other parts of Pitaya are edible. The roots, flowers and peels can be used to prepare herbal tea.

Planting the “right kinds” of forests extensively in areas that have mostly been neglected in forestation efforts − semi-arid regions in ... other types of plant cover and, since they ...

The IAEA is launching a new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) aimed at improving the understanding of radionuclide transfer in arid and semi-arid environments in support of radiological environmental ...

but new research has found that atmospheric moisture has not increased as expected over arid and semi-arid regions of the world as the climate has warmed. The findings are particularly puzzling ...