The role of dominant perennial native plant species in controlling the mobile sand encroachment and fallen dust problem in Kuwait

Ahmed, Mansour; Al-Dousari, Noor; Al-Dousari, Ali

doi:10.1007/s12517-015-2216-6

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“…Understanding the effectiveness of native plants in reducing aeolian sediment transport is essential when considering the revegetation of degraded land [16,17,18]. Other studies show that attention should be given to the vegetation density in order to prevent turbulence increase, which is positively correlated with wind erosion [19,20,21].…”

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Cost and effect of native vegetation change on aeolian sand, dust, microclimate and sustainable energy in Kuwait

Al-Dousari

Ramadan

Al-Qattan

et al. 2020

Journal of Taibah University for Science

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This study deals with the vegetation change in Kuwait from 1974 compared to recent vegetation map and their capabilities on trapping mobile sand, dust and carbon dioxides (Co 2 ). The average cost of one cubic meter removal of encroached sand around infrastructures in Kuwait is 1.32 USD. The capability of trapping sand is much higher for Haloxylon sp. than Stipagrostis sp. by 100%. The areas that were covered by Haloxylon in 1974 lose recently 4385 km 2 for the benefits of Stipagrostis causing the formation of a new mobile sand corridor. The total estimated annual cost for the vegetation change is 35,429,379 USD obtained from the costs of sand encroachment, CO 2 consumption loss and solar energy efficiency loss. Rehabilitation for areas that were occupied with large size canopy vegetation will surely cause a decrease in the aeolian activities and air temperature, lower the albedo and increase the precipitation and solar energy production.

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Cost and effect of native vegetation change on aeolian sand, dust, microclimate and sustainable energy in Kuwait

Al-Dousari

Ramadan

Al-Qattan

et al. 2020

Journal of Taibah University for Science

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“…Syrian, Jordan, Arabian and North African (Sahara) deserts are other major sources of dust storms that impact various regions of Iraq [16]. The long periods of droughts, scarcity of water and the huge variation in precipitation records were recorded on a regional scale in Iran [17], Kuwait [18][19][20] and Iraq [21].…”

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“…Only a few studies [28,29] offer a knowledge and understanding of the temporal-spatial variation in the mineral and chemical dust compositions. The variations in the dust physical and chemical properties were mentioned by a few researchers on the region scale in Iraq [16], Kuwait [18,[30][31][32], Saudi Arabia [33] and Australia [34].…”

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Assessment of mineralogical and chemical properties of airborne dust in Iraq

Attiya

Jones

2020

SN Appl. Sci.

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The mineral composition and chemical and physical analysis of dust particles are essential to assess the potential impacts of dust on climate, environment, soil and health. The aims of this study are to give an overview of the mineralogical and chemical properties of dust storms over Iraq. Also, this study aims to identify potential sources of dust storms over Iraq. The results of particle size analysis showed that clay and silt particulates form an average of 86.9% of a dust storm, whereas sand particles represent an average of 13.2% of all dust samples. The physical analysis of dust samples revealed that low percentages of sand occur in the north region, but they are high in the western and central regions. The results of XRD analysis suggest that kaolinite, gypsum, albite, quartz and calcite were the major mineral dust components. However, lower amounts of palygorskite, microcline, dolomite, illite, chlorite and halite were detected in some station samples. The XRF analysis suggested that Ba, Sr and Cl were the main trace element components in the airborne dust samples. In addition, the chemical analysis of dust samples revealed that high percentages of Zn and Pb occur in the eastern and central regions. The results of HYSPLIT backward trajectories analysis of air parcels revealed that the potential sources of dust storms were the Syrian Desert, North Africa Desert, An-Nafud Desert in Saudi Arabia, the dry lands in southwestern Turkey and southwest Iran, and the alluvial plain, Al Jazeera and Western Deserts in Iraq.

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“…On the other hand, nabkhas deposits around A. spinosus are characterized by low PH, low moisture content and low salt proportion, but high in carbonates compared to nabkhas around other native plants in Kuwait [32][33][34][35]. The ratio of carbonate in A. spinosus nabkha sediments is considered one of the highest amongst the native plants nabkhas [36][37][38]. It was observed that alkalinity, salinity and electrical conductivity increase till a depth of 40 cm for all the plants, as compared to surface samples.…”

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The environmental and economic importance of Astragalus Spinosus in land restoration

Ahmed

Al-Dousari

2020

Journal of Taibah University for Science

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Astragalus spinous is a native perennial shrubs from Leguminosae family that widely distributed in severely degraded lands at northern Kuwait. A restoration program was applied via levelling and refilling the quarries and rehabilitation of the natural vegetation and wildlife to their original outward appearance before degradation. The existence of Astragalus shrubs indicated that soil after depth 40 cm was very hard and compacted. Therefore, A. spinosus is considered as one of the efficient native plants in the rehabilitation process for highly degraded lands affected by soil compaction and sealing. The A. spinosus formed a maximum volume of nabkha deposits up to 1.12 m 3 which makes it one of the effective plants in controlling mobile sand and dust. Every single plant has the capability to save the Kuwait economy by USD 3.6 via trapping mobile sand and saving the infrastructures from sand encroachment as a major challenge.

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The role of dominant perennial native plant species in controlling the mobile sand encroachment and fallen dust problem in Kuwait

Cited by 47 publications

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Cost and effect of native vegetation change on aeolian sand, dust, microclimate and sustainable energy in Kuwait

Cost and effect of native vegetation change on aeolian sand, dust, microclimate and sustainable energy in Kuwait

Assessment of mineralogical and chemical properties of airborne dust in Iraq

The environmental and economic importance of Astragalus Spinosus in land restoration

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