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The 109 pages that link to Desertification, each with the reason it gives.

• Soil erosionRelated: Severe erosion can contribute to lasting degradation in dry regions.

• PastoralismRelated: Pastoral land use is often discussed in debates about dryland degradation and recovery.

• DroughtRelated: Repeated drought can compound land degradation, though it is not its sole cause.

• ErosionRelated: Erosion can strip soil and accelerate degradation in vulnerable drylands.

• Rain shadowCompared with: A rain shadow is a natural climate pattern, not the process of land degradation.

• Mediterranean climateRelated: Repeated drought, erosion, and land pressure can degrade Mediterranean landscapes.

• SaharaRelated: It is often confused with natural desert boundaries, but does not explain the Sahara’s formation.

• SahelRelated: It describes a risk to Sahelian land, though the Sahara does not simply advance south everywhere.

• OasisRelated: Depleted water and damaged soils can undermine oasis agriculture.

• PedosphereRelated: Soil degradation can contribute to desertification and loss of ecosystem function.

• OvergrazingBroader topic: In arid settings, persistent overgrazing can contribute to a wider loss of land productivity.

• Eurasian SteppeRelated: Overgrazing and climate pressures can degrade steppe soils and vegetation.

• Land degradationBroader topic: It is a prominent form of degradation in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid regions.

• Mediterranean basinRelated: Climate stress and land use expose parts of the basin to degradation.

• Dust stormRelated: Degraded land can expose loose particles to storm winds.

• Arid climateCompared with: It can intensify dryness, but land degradation is not the same as an arid climate.

• Desert ecologyRelated: Ecological evidence helps distinguish natural aridity from degradation and identify its drivers.

• Nomadic pastoralismRelated: Pastoral mobility is often blamed for desertification, though causes and effects vary by setting.

• Soil conservationRelated: Poor soil management can intensify the loss of productive land in dry regions.

• Dryland farmingRelated: Poorly managed cultivation can contribute to land degradation that threatens dryland livelihoods.

• Soil healthCompared with: It illustrates how declining soil function can compound ecological and livelihood stresses.

• TurkmenistanRelated: Water-intensive farming and aridity intensify land degradation in Turkmenistan.

• Gobi DesertRelated: Land degradation around the Gobi can intensify pressure on its edges.

• Mongolian PlateauRelated: Overgrazing and drought can degrade vulnerable grasslands and expand bare ground.

• DuneRelated: Mobile dunes can accompany land degradation, though they do not by themselves prove desertification.

• African savannaRelated: Some savanna regions face declining vegetation cover and soil productivity under combined stress.

• Physical geographyRelated: Its causes and boundaries involve interacting climate, soil, water, and land-use processes.

• DesertCompared with: It is degradation of dryland ecosystems, not simply the existence or expansion of deserts.

• Soil scienceBroader topic: It illustrates how soil decline can transform whole dryland landscapes.

• Rangeland managementRelated: Poorly managed grazing can contribute to vegetation loss and dryland degradation.

• Desert climateCompared with: It is land degradation, not simply the existence of a naturally arid climate.

• Ecological thresholdRelated: Dryland vegetation can shift abruptly when grazing, drought, or soil loss exceeds recovery capacity.

• Soil degradationBroader topic: It is a severe dryland expression of soil and ecosystem decline.

• West African monsoonRelated: Monsoon drought can intensify dryland stress, though desertification has multiple causes.

• NingxiaRelated: Dryland degradation threatens farmland and settlements in parts of Ningxia.

• Sahel droughtRelated: Drought can aggravate land degradation, but desertification is not simply the desert advancing.

• Sand duneRelated: Shifting dunes can threaten infrastructure and fields in vulnerable drylands.

• Taklamakan DesertRelated: Managing fragile margins matters where human land use meets arid conditions.

• Aridity indexRelated: Index trends can help distinguish changing climatic dryness from land degradation.

• Erosion controlRelated: Persistent soil loss can contribute to degradation where land and vegetation are already vulnerable.

• FallowRelated: Poorly managed bare fallow can worsen degradation by exposing dry soil to wind and water.

• Kazakh SteppeRelated: Overgrazing, drought, and cultivation can degrade vulnerable steppe soils.

• RangelandRelated: Excessive pressure can accelerate the loss of vegetation and soil on vulnerable rangelands.

• Resource depletionRelated: Overuse of vegetation, soil, or water can intensify land degradation in dry regions.

• BarchanRelated: Advancing barchans can threaten infrastructure and cultivated land near dry regions.

• CaatingaRelated: Overgrazing, wood cutting, and drought can intensify degradation in parts of the Caatinga.

• Great Green WallRelated: Combating this process is a central reason for restoring Sahelian land.

• Western DesertRelated: Water stress and land use shape the sustainability of desert settlements.

• Karakum DesertRelated: Water use and land pressure can intensify dryland degradation around the desert.

• Livestock grazingRelated: Excessive grazing pressure can contribute to vegetation loss in vulnerable drylands.