EditorialA clarion call for aeolian research to engage with global land degradation and climate change
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Renewed agility to engage with wind erosion research
The forthcoming IPCC special report (planned for September 2019) will assess literature relevant to climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, especially since the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The report outline is for seven chapters including (Ch2) climate-land interactions, (Ch6) Interlinkages between desertification, land degradation, food security and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes:
Conclusion
Existing research indicates that soil erosion should be emphasised in the IPCC report, and that it should be considered as a dominant pressure on the state and quality of land resources. Wind erosion and particularly dust emission, remove selectively SOC and nutrients and transport them rapidly over large distances. Immediately after most land cover changes soil erosion accelerates, causing SOC and nutrients to decline rapidly – impacting the dust aerosol burden and climate, but also critically
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