Journal of Arid Environments

Article	Citations
Saline soils worldwide: Identifying the most promising areas for saline agriculture	63
Land desertification and its influencing factors in Kazakhstan	53
Spatially varying impacts of climate change on wheat and barley yields in Kazakhstan	45
Potential geographical distribution and habitat shift of the genus Ammopiptanthus in China under current and future climate change based on the MaxEnt model	42
Salt-tolerant Bacillus species as a promising strategy to mitigate the salinity stress in wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum)	41
Trophic state changes of semi-arid reservoirs as a function of the hydro-climatic variability	40
Statistical evaluation of gridded precipitation datasets using rain gauge observations over Iran	37
Assessing rural households' resilience and adaptation strategies to climate variability and change	35
Can spineless forage cactus be the queen of forage crops in dryland areas?	34
SPEI-based spatial and temporal evaluation of drought in Somalia	33
Drought area, intensity and frequency changes in China under climate warming, 1961–2014	32
Impact of climate change on soil water balance, maize production, and potential adaptation measures in the Rift Valley drylands of Ethiopia	31
Investigating the main reasons for the tragedy of large saline lakes: Drought, climate change, or anthropogenic activities? A call to action	30
Forage nutritional differences within the genus Opuntia	29
Examining the soil erosion responses to ecological restoration programs and landscape drivers: A spatial econometric perspective	28
Soil microbial communities and their relationships to soil properties at different depths in an alpine meadow and desert grassland in the Qilian mountain range of China	28
Climate change reduces the distribution area of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertn.) in Burkina Faso	28
Applications of bio-cementation and bio-polymerization for aeolian erosion control	27
Disentangling the concept of “South American Arid Diagonal”	26
Evaluation of a composite drought index to identify seasonal drought and its associated atmospheric dynamics in Northern Punjab, Pakistan	26
Nebkha or not? -Climate control on foredune mode	25
Assessing the water footprint of afforestation in Inner Mongolia, China	25
Impacts of land cover changes on desertification in northern Nigeria and implications on the Lake Chad Basin	25
Evolutionary success in arid habitats: Morpho-anatomy of succulent leaves of Crassula species from southern Africa	25
Quantifying the influences of land surface parameters on LST variations based on GeoDetector model in Syr Darya Basin, Central Asia	25

Land subsidence in Isfahan metropolitan and its relationship with geological and geomorphological settings revealed by Sentinel-1A InSAR observations	24
Intercropping forage cactus and sorghum in a semi-arid environment improves biological efficiency and competitive ability through interspecific complementarity	24
A machine learning model for drought tracking and forecasting using remote precipitation data and a standardized precipitation index from arid regions	23
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and/or organic amendment enhance the tolerance of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) under drought stress	23
Climate change perceptions and challenges to adaptation among smallholder farmers in semi-arid Ghana: A gender analysis	23
Towards a remote sensing data based evapotranspiration estimation in Northern Australia using a simple random forest approach	22
Experimental investigation of the performance of earth-to-air heat exchangers in arid environments	21
Potential of superabsorbent hydrogels to improve agriculture under abiotic stresses	21
Comparative assessment of different reference evapotranspiration models towards a fit calibration for arid and semi-arid areas	21
Agricultural land use change under climate variability and change: Drivers and impacts	20
The plight of camels eating plastic waste	20
Genetic and productive background of Criollo cattle in Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay and the United States	20
Modelling terrestrial reptile species richness, distributions and habitat suitability in Saudi Arabia	19
Balance of water supply and consumption during ecological restoration in arid regions of Inner Mongolia, China	19
Sustainable farming in the Roman-Byzantine period: Dating an advanced agriculture system near the site of Shivta, Negev Desert, Israel	19
Barriers to climate change adaptation: Qualitative evidence from southwestern Iran	19
The Holocene humid period in the Nefud Desert: Hunters and herders in the Jebel Oraf palaeolake basin, Saudi Arabia	19
Rapid increase of potential evapotranspiration weakens the effect of precipitation on aridity in global drylands	19
Steppe Marmot (Marmota bobak) as ecosystem engineer in arid steppes	18
The use of remote sensing for desertification studies: A review	18
Ecosystem service dependence in livestock and crop-based production systems in Asia's high mountains	18
Determinants of reactive adaptations to climate change in semi-arid region of Pakistan	18
Assessment of tropical cyclone damage on dry forests using multispectral remote sensing: The case of Baja California Sur, Mexico	18
A review of farming challenges and resilience management in the Sudano-Sahelian drylands of Nigeria in an era of climate change	17
Rehabilitation of degraded rangelands in Jordan: The effects of mechanized micro water harvesting on hill-slope scale soil water and vegetation dynamics	17
Assessing long-term spatio-temporal variability in humidity and drought in Iran using Pedj Drought Index (PDI)	17
Determinants of pastoral household resilience to food insecurity in Afar region, northeast Ethiopia	17
Understanding dust sources through remote sensing: Making a case for CubeSats	17
Changes in the composition of soil bacterial and fungal communities after revegetation with Caragana microphylla in a desertified semiarid grassland	17
Smallholder farmers’ perceived evaluation of agricultural drought adaptation technologies used in Uganda: Constraints and opportunities	16
Patterns of Livestock Depredation and Large Carnivore Conservation Implications in the Indian Trans-Himalaya	16
Rangeland degradation in Mongolia: A systematic review of the evidence	16
Drivers of species’ use for fuelwood purposes: A case study in the Brazilian semiarid region	16
Habitat use and feeding behavior of domestic free-ranging goats in a seasonal tropical dry forest	16
Re-thinking the Technosol design for greenery systems: Challenges for the provision of ecosystem services in semiarid and arid cities	16
Response of ecological stoichiometry and stoichiometric homeostasis in the plant-litter-soil system to re-vegetation type in arid mining subsidence areas	16
Riparian vegetation as an indicator of stream channel presence and connectivity in arid environments	15
The 2015-19 multi year drought in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: it's evolution and impacts on agriculture	15
Hydrologic similarity: Dimensionless runoff indices across scales in a semi-arid catchment	14
Factors influencing dryland agricultural productivity	14
Spatio-temporal assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) in The Thar Desert India, to combat desertification under UNCCD framework	14
Using geochemical and isotopic tracers to characterize groundwater dynamics and salinity sources in the Wadi Guenniche coastal plain in northern Tunisia	14
Diversification of mopane caterpillars (Gonimbrasia belina) edible forms for improved livelihoods and food security	14
Assessing soil fertility index based on remote sensing and gis techniques with field validation in a semiarid agricultural ecosystem	14
Functional performance of biocrusts across Europe and its implications for drylands	13
Experimental study on the effect of plant spacing, number of rows and arrangement on the airflow field of forest belt in a wind tunnel	13
Land degradation means a loss of management options	13
Phenophases, morphophysiological indices and cutting time in clones of the forage cacti under controlled water regimes in a semiarid environment	13
Prediction of desert locust breeding areas using machine learning methods and SMOS (MIR_SMNRT2) Near Real Time product	13
Beef value chain analysis and climate change adaptation and investment options in the semi-arid lands of northern Kenya	13

Response of soil water and carbon storage to short-term grazing prohibition in arid and semi-arid grasslands of China	13
Individual shrubs, large scale grass cover and seasonal rainfall explain invertebrate-derived macropore density in a semi-arid Namibian savanna	13
Flash flood reconstruction in the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional tree ring-based chronology and assessment of climate triggers on the island of Crete	13
Phenology of high- and low-density wood deciduous species responds differently to water supply in tropical semiarid regions	13
Land degradation modeling of dust storm sources using MODIS and meteorological time series data	13
Durability of biotechnologically induced crusts on sand against wind erosion	13
Detecting land degradation in Southern Africa using Time Series Segment and Residual Trend (TSS-RESTREND)	13
Determination of ecological networks for vegetation connectivity using GIS & AHP technique in the Mediterranean degraded karst ecosystems	13
Impact of soil degradation on plant communities in an overgrazed Tibetan alpine meadow	13
Spatiotemporal characterization of agricultural drought in the Sahel region using a composite drought index	12
Models for estimating aboveground biomass of four dryland woody species in Burkina Faso, West Africa	12
Assessment of ecosystem resilience in Central Asia	12
Influence of climate stability on endemism of the vascular plants of the Chihuahuan Desert	12
Socio-historical and structural factors linked to land degradation and desertification in Namibia's former Herero 'homelands'	12
Climate change impacts on concurrences of hydrological droughts and high temperature extremes in a semi-arid river basin of China	12
Contributions of water harvesting technologies intervention in arid and semi-arid regions of Ethiopia, in ensuring households’ food security, Tigray in focus	12
How arid environments affect spatial and temporal activity of bats	12
The effects of short-term grazing on plant and soil carbon and nitrogen isotope composition in a temperate grassland	12
Socio-ecological assessment of threats to semi-arid rangeland habitat in Iran using spatial models and actor group opinions	12
The Caatinga region is a system and not an aggregate	12
Spatial distribution of biological soil crusts along an aridity gradient in the central-west of Argentina	12
Nutrient additions have direct and indirect effects on biocrust biomass in a long-term Chihuahuan Desert grassland experiment	12
Migration under economic transition and changing climate in Mongolia	11
Movement, activity, and landscape use patterns of heritage and commercial beef cows grazing Chihuahuan Desert rangeland	11
Determining the potential impacts of fire and different land uses on splash erosion in the margins of drylands	11
Nurse rock microclimates significantly buffer exposure to freezing temperature and moderate summer temperature	11
Numerical simulation of the 18 February 2017 frontal dust storm over southwest of Iran using WRF-Chem, satellite imagery, and PM10 concentrations	11
Soil microbial communities respond to an environmental gradient of grazing intensity in south Patagonia Argentina	11
Disentangling the independent effects of vegetation cover and pattern on runoff and sediment yield in dryland systems – Uncovering processes through mimicked plant patches	11
Sinkholes induced by uncontrolled groundwater withdrawal for agriculture in arid Saudi Arabia. Integration of remote-sensing and geophysical (ERT) techniques	11
Wind regime and aeolian landforms on the eastern shore of Qinghai Lake, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China	11
The effect of domestic sewage effluent and planting density on growth and yield of prickly pear cactus in the semiarid region of Brazil	11
Land-cover changes and influences on playa wetland inundation on the Southern High Plains	11
A leopard's favourite spots: Habitat preference and population density of leopards in a semi-arid biodiversity hotspot	11
Changes in water fluxes partition related to the replacement of native dry forests by crops in the Dry Chaco	11
Effect of biocrusts on profile distribution of soil water content and salinity at different stages of evaporation	11
Local climatically-driven changes of albedo and surface temperatures in the Sonoran Desert	11
Response of the Mogan and Eymir lakes (Ankara, Central Anatolia) to global warming: Extreme events in the last 100 years	10
The hydrogeochemistry of shallow groundwater from Lut Desert, Iran: The hottest place on Earth	10
Effects of forest thinning on interception and surface runoff in Larix principis-rupprechtii plantation during the growing season	10
Assessing fog water collection in the coastal mountain range of Antofagasta, Chile	10
On opportunities and challenges to conserve the African baobab under present and future climates in Benin (West Africa)	10
Effects of irrigation management on arid soils enzyme activities	10
Evapotranspiration estimates from an energy-water-balance model calibrated on satellite land surface temperature over the Heihe basin	10
Low-cost drones help measure tree characteristics in the Sahelian savanna	10
Are fungus-growing termites super sediment-sorting insects of subtropical environments?	10
Climate and wildfire effects on radial growth of Pinus sylvestris in the Khan Khentii Mountains, north-central Mongolia	10
Effects of long-term seed storage on germination of 13 cactus species from central Argentina	10
Spatio-temporal dynamics of climate change, land degradation, and water insecurity in an arid rangeland: The Río San Miguel watershed, Sonora, Mexico	10
On the performance of microlysimeters to measure non-rainfall water input in a hyper-arid environment with focus on fog contribution	10
Effects of debris piles and pools along dry riverbeds on nutrients, microbial activity, and ground-dwelling arthropods: A Namibian ephemeral river case	10
Assessment of water presence and use at sand dams in Kenya	10
Diet selected by goats on xerophytic shrubland with different milk yield potential	10
Environmental influence on Merino sheep wool quality through the lens of seasonal variations in fibre diameter	9
Desertification and development: Some broader contexts	9
The responses of soil respiration to changed precipitation and increased temperature in desert grassland in northern China	9
Direct and indirect effects of carrion subsidies in an arid rangeland: Carrion has positive effects on facultative scavengers and negative effects on a small songbird	9
Impact of water scarcity on dryland sheep meat production and quality: Key recovery and resilience strategies	9
Phytochemistry, traditional uses and biological effects of the desert plant Styrax officinalis L	9
How do agro-pastoralists cope with climate change? The case of the Nyangatom in the Lower Omo Valley of Ethiopia	9
Lateral and longitudinal distribution of riparian vegetation along an ephemeral river in Namibia using remote sensing techniques	9
Faecal pellets, rock shelters, and seasonality: The chemistry of stabling in the Negev of Israel in late prehistory	9
Influence of climatic variability on the electricity generation potential by renewable sources in the Brazilian semi-arid region	9
Short-term hydrological response of soil after wildfire in a semi-arid landscape covered by Macrochloa tenacissima (L.) Kunth	9
Response of dung beetle diversity to three livestock management systems in drylands of central Mexico	8
The impact on food security of a shrinking Lake Chad	8
Fifteen-year resilience against further degradation of Succulent Karoo vegetation in South Africa	8
Surface water groundwater interaction in water-stressed semi-arid western India: Insights from environmental isotopes	8
Climate evolution since 9.32 cal ka BP in Keluke Lake, northeastern Qaidam Basin, China	8
Soil deterioration in the southern Chihuahuan Desert caused by agricultural practices and meteorological events	8
Matching beef cattle breeds to the environment for desired outcomes in a changing climate: A systematic review	8
Pastoral coping and adaptation climate change strategies: Implications for women's well-being	8
Effectiveness of organic amendment and application thickness on properties of a sandy soil and sand stabilization	8
Landslides on dry badlands: UAV images to identify the drivers controlling their unexpected occurrence on vegetated hillslopes	8
Spatial and temporal interactions between top carnivores at water sources in two deserts of western North America	8
Flash-flood hydrology and aquifer-recharge in Wadi Umm Sidr, Eastern Desert, Egypt	8
The rolling dung master: An ecosystem engineer beetle mobilizing soil nutrients to enhance plant growth across a grassland management intensity gradient in drylands	8
Soil texture modulates the intensity of fertile islands through affecting the distribution of shrub fine roots	8
Macroinvertebrate functional trait responses to environmental gradients and anthropogenic disturbance in arid-land streams of North Africa	8
Thermally-driven thresholds in terrestrial avifauna waterhole visitation indicate vulnerability to a warming climate	8

Desert landform detection and mapping using a semi-automated object-based image analysis approach	8
Sustainable Co-Management of arid regions in southeastern Iran: Social network analysis approach	8
On the use of the Land Degradation Neutrality concept in mediterranean watersheds for land restoration and erosion counteraction	8
Soil carbon release enhanced by increased litter input in a degraded semi-arid forest soil	8
Low topographic positions enhance woody vegetation stability in the Ferlo (Senegalese Sahel)	8
Yield and morphology of forage cactus cultivars under drip irrigation management based on soil water matric potential thresholds	7
Multiple perspectives on a biocultural environment: Landscape ethnoecology in the Brazilian dry forest	7
Soil attributes and the quality and yield of ‘Gigante’ cactus pear in agroecosystems of the semiarid region of Bahia	7
El Niño Southern Oscillation and enhanced arid land vegetation productivity in NW South America	7
An adaptation capacity model in the face of climate change: A qualitative content analysis	7
The locomotory activity patterns of the arid-dwelling desert hedgehog, Paraechinus aethiopicus, from Saudi Arabia	7
Geomorphology of sand dunes in the Taklamakan Desert based on ERA5 reanalysis data	7
Diversity in smallholder dairy production systems in the Brazilian semiarid region: Farm typologies and characteristics of raw milk and water used in milking	7
The response of litter decomposition to phosphorus addition in typical temperate grassland in Inner Mongolia	7
First anthrachological studies at the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina). Hunter-gatherers management of woody material and Initial Late Holocene vegetal communities inferred from the Zoko	7
Diet selection of Raramuri Criollo and Angus x Hereford crossbred cattle in the Chihuahuan Desert	7
An empirical approach of past and present mobility management in the desert societies of camel breeders in South Eastern Morocco	7
More is not necessarily better: The role of cover and spatial organization of resource sinks in the restoration of patchy drylands	7
The genesis of the Jornada criollo cattle program	7
Spatial patterns in the adaptive capacity of dryland agricultural households in South Punjab, Pakistan	7
Normalized Difference Enhanced Sand Index for desert sand dunes detection using Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 OLI data, application to the north of Figuig, Morocco	7
Land-use differences modify predator-prey interactions and Acacia vegetation in a hyperarid ecosystem	7
Biocrusts in Mexican deserts and semideserts: A review of their species composition, ecology, and ecosystem function	7
Foraging behavior and body temperature of heritage vs. commercial beef cows in relation to desert ambient heat	7
Evaluating post-fire recovery of Latroon dry forest using Landsat ETM+, unmanned aerial vehicle and field survey data	7
Seed provenance, thermoperiod, and photoperiod affect low water potential tolerance during seed germination of the multipurpose exotic tree Prosopis juliflora	7
Perception on climate change, access to extension service and energy sources determining adoption of climate-smart practices: A multivariate approach	7
Dust deposition and its significance to soil nutrients in the Otindag Desert, China	7
Eucalyptus leaves are preferred to cerrado native species but do not constitute a better food resource to stream shredders	7
The role of precipitation and woody cover deficit in juniper encroachment in Texas savanna	7
A mechanistic investigation of the oasis effect in the Zhangye cropland in semiarid western China	7
Philopatric and natal dispersal of tigers in a semi-arid habitat, western India	7
Allometric equations coupled with remotely sensed variables to estimate carbon stocks in date palms	7
Efficiency of technologies to live with drought in agricultural development in Brazil's semi-arid regions	7
Eco-geomorphological connectivity and coupling interactions at hillslope scale in drylands: Concepts and critical examples	7
The seed-associated microbiome of four cactus species from Southern Chihuahuan Desert	7
Ecological aspects of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in a fragment of seasonal dry tropical forest (Caatinga) in Brazil	7
Winter foraging ecology of Greater Sage-Grouse in a post-fire landscape	7
Envisioning perennial agroecosystems in Palestine	7
Goats foster endozoochoric dispersal of exotic species in a seasonally dry tropical forest ecosystem	6
Chemical cues may allow a fossorial amphisbaenian reptile to avoid extremely saline soils when selecting microhabitats	6
Adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Argentina's Gran Chaco: A multilevel approach	6
Predicting past, current and future habitat suitability and geographic distribution of the Iranian endemic species Microgecko latifi (Sauria: Gekkonidae)	6
Seed germination of a rare gypsum-associated species, Arctomecon californica (Papaveraceae), in the Mojave Desert	6
Using GIS and remote sensing for mapping land sensitivity to wind erosion hazard in the middle Moulouya Basin (North-Eastern Morocco)	6
Leaf morphophysiological changes induced by long-term drought in Jatropha curcas plants explain the resilience to extreme drought	6
Factors controlling spatio-temporal variations of sandy deserts during the past 110 Years in Xinjiang, Northwestern China	6
Do agrosystems change soil carbon and nutrient stocks in a semiarid environment?	6
Rangelands and crop fallows can supplement but not replace protected grasslands in sustaining Thar Desert's avifauna during the dry season	6
Birds of the Caatinga revisited: The problem of enclaves within, but not of, the Caatinga	6
Using farmer-based metrics to analyze the amount, seasonality, variability and spatial patterns of rainfall amidst climate change in southern Ethiopia	6
Spatiotemporal aspects of interannual changes precipitation in the crimea	6
The structural and nutrient chemistry during early-stage decomposition and desiccation of cacti in the Sonoran Desert	6
Climate change and variability perceptions and adaptations of pastoralists’ communities in the Maasai Steppe, Tanzania	6
Grazing impact on structure and dynamics of bare soil areas in a Patagonian grass-shrub steppe	6
The superiority of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence sensitivity over other vegetation indices to drought	6
Human-Wildlife Conflict in a ‘successful’ Community Conservation Programme: Economic and territorial impacts on Namibia's conservancies	6
Landscape changes and land degradation in the subalpine belt of the Central Spanish Pyrenees	6
A framework for investigating the land degradation neutrality – Disaster risk reduction nexus at the sub-national scales	6
Identifying the relationships among multiple ecosystem services	6
The distribution of ecotourism activities and potential consequences for the Saudi desert ecosystem	6
Activity patterns of leopards (Panthera pardus) and temporal overlap with their prey in an arid depredation hotspot of southern Africa	6
The importance of microenvironment: Opuntia plant growth, form and the response to sunlight	6
Diet of puma (Puma concolor) in sheep ranches of central Patagonia (Argentina)	6
Climate vulnerability and risks to an indigenous community in the arid zone of South Africa	6
Effects of domestic wood collection on tree community structure in a human-dominated seasonally dry tropical forest	6
Seed dispersal potential of jackals and foxes in semi-arid habitats of South Africa	6
Patterns of vertebrate road-kills in a pre-Saharan Tunisian area	5
The contribution of frankincense to the agro-pastoral household economy and its potential for commercialization - A case from Borana, southern Ethiopia	5
Climate variability trends-community perspective-livelihood adaptation strategy nexus in the arid-tropics, Ethiopia	5
Relationships between aquatic invertebrate assemblages and environmental quality on saline wetlands of an arid environment	5
Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of conservation agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions: A review	5
The unique inflorescence structure of Dorema aucheri (Apiaceae): An adaptation to the arid environment	5
Optimizing manure management for enhancing millet yields and resources use efficiency under rehabilitated plinthosols in the Sahel	5
Collaborative foundations of herding: The formation of cooperative groups among Tibetan pastoralists	5
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve nutrient status of Commiphora myrrha seedlings under drought	5
Linking drought propagation with episodes of climate-Induced water insecurity in Pernambuco state - Northeast Brazil	5
Noteworthy records and updated richness of medium to large-sized mammals in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of northern Peru and southern Ecuador	5
Growth and physiological responses of ectomycorrhizal Coccoloba uvifera (L.) L. seedlings to salt stress	5
Habitat heterogeneity shapes and shifts scorpion assemblages in a Brazilian seasonal dry tropical forest	5
Comparison of the uncertainty of soil organic carbon stocks in different land uses	5
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the dimensions of farmers' adaptive capacity in the face of water scarcity	5
The relationship between species diversity and functional diversity along aridity gradients in semi-arid rangeland	5
Spatial distribution of soil carbon storage in desert shrubland ecosystems of northwest Mexico	5
Effects of woody vegetation patches on species composition in Stipa tenacissima steppes	5
Variation in number of root tips influences survival in competition with an invasive grass	5
Influences of environmental heterogeneity on amphibian composition at breeding sites in a semiarid region of Mexico	5
Geochemistry and isotopic analysis of brines in the coastal sabkhas, Eastern region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	5
Desert otters: Distribution, habitat use and feeding ecology in arid rivers of Morocco	5
Assessing wildlife biodiversity using camera trap data on the Mongolian marmot (Marmota sibirica) colonies	5
Exploring the possibilities of remote yield estimation using crop water requirements for area yield index insurance in a data-scarce dryland	5
A novel vegetation index-based workflow for semi-arid, sparse woody cover mapping	5
Diversity of ground-active spiders in Negev desert habitats, Israel	5
Diversity and density of the desert seed bank: Interplays between cacti and nurse shrub species	5
The utilization and extinction of Juniper trees from the Negev desert (Israel) - Data from a late 6th–5th millennia site of Har Harif	5