Appraisal of arid land status: a holistic assessment pertains to bio-physical indicators and ecosystem values

Abstract Background Appraisal of arid land status is very Gift Box crucial one to know the extent and factors associated with their degradation.Previous studies from arid regions are mostly qualitative in nature (indicator assessment like good, moderate, severe, and very severe) and generally overlooked the significance of temporal fluctuation.Meth

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The current state of mountain meadow soils of subalpine pasture ecosystems of the Central Caucasus (elbrus altitudinal zonality)

Intensive recreational, agricultural and logistics land use in uplands leads to their transformation and degradation.Subalpine meadow ecosystems of Central Caucasus are traditionally used for grazing and mowing.The work determined the current state of soils on pastures (mountain chestnut meadow-steppe subalpine soil and mountain meadow subalpine so

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Towards a Philosophy of Language Management

Over the past twenty years, in a number of different domains, I have been preoccupied by the relationship between content and language.Finding myself the editor of a family of general encyclopedias in the late 1980s brought an encounter with "knowledge" which had to be integrated with my professional linguistic concerns.This has since developed to

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