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Prospect of the study on rock desertification and its restoration in southwest Karst mountains

LI Yangbing, WANG Shijie, RONG Li   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute Geochemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China
  • Received:2003-06-05 Revised:2003-07-15 Online:2004-12-10

Abstract: In this paper,the study on rock desertification and its restoration in southwest Karst mountain area was briefly reviewed.With reference to the trends in related scientific fields and pressing demand in restoring existing degraded lands,several key aspects,including vegetation processes,eco-hydrological processes,landscape processes and assessment of regional environmental state,prediction of rock desertification trends and exploration of restoration measures for the Karst mountain areas in southwest China were stated in order to discover mechanisms leading to rock desertification and to restore desertification lands.

Key words: Alkali saline soil, Amelioration, Chloris virgata, Cornstalk, Soil seed bank

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