Identification of potential forest thinning locations to mitigate water deficits in drylands
Chenxu Wang,
Yanxu Liu,
Yaosheng Zhang
Abstract:Appropriate forest thinning measures can mitigate the conflicting relationship between past excessive afforestation and current increasing regional water deficiency in dryland ecosystems. However, since blind intervention in forest landscapes may incur additional economic costs and cause the loss of ecosystem services, forest thinning in drylands mostly exists in scientific discussions and is seldom implemented in reality. In this study, we propose an advanced technical route to predict the spatial arrangement… Show more
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