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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Drylands
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1428828
This article is part of the Research Topic Drylands under the Influence of Climate Change and Human Activities View all 10 articles

The effects of grazing and the meteorologic factors on wind-sand flux in the desert steppe

Provisionally accepted
Biao Meng Biao Meng 1Zhiguo Li Zhiguo Li 1*Cuiping Gao Cuiping Gao 1Shijie LV Shijie LV 1Guodong Han Guodong Han 1Junran Li Junran Li 2Qian Wu Qian Wu 1Feng Zhang Feng Zhang 1
  • 1 Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
  • 2 The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, SAR China

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    Global climate warming and other human activities are leading to the degradation of grassland vegetation and wind erosion in arid areas becoming increasingly severe. To understand the impact of variation in grazing intensity on aeolian flux in arid grasslands, we monitored wind-sand flux for three years on an experimental site on the desert steppe of Inner Mongolia. We examined variation in wind-sand flux under different stocking rates with corresponding collection height and climate factors. Overall, we found that the windsand flux was higher when rainfall was low and the stocking intensity was high.Specifically, the wind-sand flux increased 50.3% and 83.6% in the moderate and high grazing treatments as compared to the control. We also found a significant interaction

    Keywords: interactions, Environmental characteristics, Stocking rate, Desert steppe, wind-sand flux

    Received: 07 May 2024; Accepted: 15 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Meng, Li, Gao, LV, Han, Li, Wu and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Zhiguo Li, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China

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