The Effect of Climate Changes on the Wetland Moisture Variations and Its Correlation with Sand-Dust Events in a Semiarid Environment, Northwestern Iran

Predicting the dust events frequency around a degraded ecosystem and determining the contribution of their controlling factors using gradient boosting-based approaches and Game theory

“…As early mentioned, changes in the dried bed of Shadegan wetland have also been effective on dust events around the wetland. Some other researchers have also concluded that the drying up of Iranian wetlands, especially Hamoun, Meighan, and Jazmourian, had a great impact on intensifying the spread of dust in these areas (Arjmand et al 2018;Ebrahimi-Khus et al 2020a;Gholami et al 2020). In addition, the reduction in in ow discharge to…”

“…Considering the 1% discount rate, the economic loss of not protecting West Asian wetlands will reach $ 7.2 billion over the next 30 years (Eppink et al 2014). In recent years, the water levels of these valuable ecosystems have declined due to climate change, meteorological droughts, and overuse of surface and groundwater resources (Cao et al 2012;Ebrahimi-Khus et al 2020a). According to a report provided by Davidson (2014), more than twothirds of the world's wetlands have been destroyed since 1900.…”

“…In addition to climatic conditions, the frequency of dust events around degraded wetlands is a function of changes in the moisture content of wetlands and the ow discharge variations in the rivers leading to wetlands (Khus et al 2017). Using the spectral indices derived from remotely-sensed data, it was demonstrated that the water level of many wetlands has decreased in many countries, including China (Jiang et al 2017;Song et al 2014), Nigeria (Ayanlade and Proske 2016), Ethiopia (Gebresllassie et al 2014), India (Chatterjee et al 2015), and Iran (Ebrahimi- Khus et al 2020a).…”

Dust storm index anomaly for sand-dust events monitoring in western Iran and its association with the NDVI and LST anomalies

“…Al-Azim wetlands in the western half of Iran (Ansari and Golabi 2019;Arsanjani et al 2015;Ebrahimi-Khusfi et al 2020a). The high susceptibility of many dried-up Iranian wetlands to SDE, which has been reported in some previous studies (Karami et al 2021;Lababpour 2020;Sedaghat and Nazaripour 2020) is in line with the findings of this study.…”

Predicting the dust events frequency around a degraded ecosystem and determining the contribution of their controlling factors using gradient boosting-based approaches and game theory

“…Considering the 1% discount rate, the economic loss of not protecting West Asian wetlands will reach $ 7.2 billion over the next 30 years (Eppink et al 2014). In recent years, the water levels of these valuable ecosystems have declined due to climate change, meteorological droughts, and overuse of surface and groundwater resources (Cao et al 2012;Ebrahimi-Khus et al 2020a). According to a report provided by Davidson (2014), more than twothirds of the world's wetlands have been destroyed since 1900.…”