Abstract
Mongolia is a globally crucial region that has been suffering from land desertification. However, current understanding on Mongolia’s desertification is limited, constraining the desertification control and sustainable development in Mongolia and even other parts of the world. This paper studied spatiotemporal patterns, driving factors, mitigation strategies, and research methods of desertification in Mongolia through an extensive review of literature. Results showed that: (i) remote sensing monitoring of desertification in Mongolia has been subject to a relatively low spatial resolution and considerable time delay, and thus high-resolution and timely data are needed to perform a more precise and timely study; (ii) the contribution of desertification impacting factors has not been quantitatively assessed, and a decoupling analysis is desirable to quantify the contribution of factors in different regions of Mongolia; (iii) existing desertification prevention measures should be strengthened in the future. In particular, the relationship between grassland changes and husbandry development needs to be considered during the development of desertification prevention measures; (iv) the multi-method study (particularly interdisciplinary approaches) and desertification model development should be enhanced to facilitate an in-depth desertification research in Mongolia. This study provides a useful reference for desertification research and control in Mongolia and other regions of the world.
Highlights
Based on an extensive review of literature, we systematically summarized the recent progress made in the desertification research and control in Mongolia
Based on an extensive review of the Chinese and English literature related to the deserBased on an extensive review of the Englishdriving literature related to the destification in Mongolia, we investigated spatiotemporal patterns, factors, prevention ertification in Mongolia, we investigated spatiotemporal patterns, driving factors, prevenmeasures, and research methods of Mongolia’s desertification
This paper systematically reviewed the recent progress made in Mongolia’s desertification and prevention in terms of spatiotemporal distribution, driving factors, prevention measures, and research methods
Summary
A major environmental issue in the world [1,2], refers to the process during which the terrestrial ecosystem is being destroyed. The process results in a deterioration of land quality as well as a fundamental change of physical and chemical soil properties under the influence of unfavorable natural factors and human activities [3,4]. Semi-arid, and sub-humid regions is termed as desertification [5,6,7]. Land desertification has become a major environmental problem that severely constrains the sustainable development of human society in the 21st century [8]
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