Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

Jianping Huang (), Haipeng Yu, Xiaodan Guan, Guoyin Wang and Ruixia Guo
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Jianping Huang: Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
Haipeng Yu: Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
Xiaodan Guan: Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
Guoyin Wang: Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
Ruixia Guo: Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University

Nature Climate Change, 2016, vol. 6, issue 2, 166-171

Abstract: Climate change is causing drylands to expand and this work shows that they will cover half of the land surface by 2100 under a moderate emissions scenario.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2837

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