Nutrient Cycling and Management in Drylands: Challenges and Innovations in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Systems and Global Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 447
Special Issue Editors
Interests: restoration ecology; drylands
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrient cycling is a key process in drylands, and plays a crucial role in the accumulation of soil nutrients, soil structure and vegetation restoration, especially in nutrient-poor arid and semi-arid regions. Therefore, the factors and drivers that control nutrient cycling in these ecosystems enable us to understand the material cycle and energy flow under the influence of climate change and human activities, and provide reasonable suggestions for the enhanced evaluation and management of soil–plant nutrient cycling in drylands.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) regarding the contribution of nutrient cycling to ecosystem services in drylands, its responses to climate change and human activities, and its application in the management of land degradation in arid and semi-arid areas.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Characteristics and laws of nutrient cycling in drylands.
- Abiotic and biotic factors that affect nutrient cycling in drylands.
- The driving mechanism of nutrient cycling in arid and semi-arid regions.
- The effects of climate change and human activities (grazing, protected areas construction, land-use practices and so on) on nutrient cycling in drylands.
- Applications and policy recommendations regarding nutrient cycling in the restoration of degraded drylands.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Hao Qu
Dr. Eduardo Medina-Roldán
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- global change
- ecosystem services
- sustainability
- litter decomposition
- nutrient dynamics
- nutrient availability
- microbe–soil–plant interaction
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