3-6: Land Use Issues
Short Summaries of Recent Research
Climate Change due to Land-Use Change
Changing
the Hydrological Cycle in US Midwest
New
Species Created at Rainforest Margins
Websites
Creeping Dead Zones
- Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
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Land degradation and desertification. (From the CIESIN thematic guide.)
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The National Drought Mitigation Center
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Welcome to the EDC DAAC
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Human-induced soil degradation, technical atlas,
WFS.
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