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| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-12974-3_14 |
| The Loss of Agricultural and Ecological Resilience in Abandoned Lands of the Eastern Cape Province; South Africa | |
| Kakembo V. | |
| 发表日期 | 2019 |
| ISSN | 16102002 |
| 起始页码 | 307 |
| 结束页码 | 326 |
| 英文摘要 | Land abandonment is a widespread phenomenon in the communal areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, despite the exponential population increase. Non-recovery of abandoned lands is explained by a unique suite of soil properties derived predominantly from mudstone and shales, which render soils highly erodible. Soil properties associated with mudstone and shales include high proportions of silt and fine sand; pockets of duplex, sodic, and illitic soils susceptible to hard-setting; soil dispersion; crusting; and high runoff. Pockets of duplex soils have greater proportions of clay in the B horizon of up to 45% than the fine sand and silt surface samples. Soil organic carbon of many areas of the Province is as low as 0.28%. Inherent to the emergent patchy vegetation patterns on abandoned lands within the drier 200–500 mm isohyetic zone are soil crusting, infiltration inhibition, runoff generation and connectivity and erosion intensification. Such feedback mechanisms and the consequent ecohydrological impacts have engendered the total loss of agricultural and ecological resilience of abandoned lands in communal areas of the Province. Enabling rural communities to take ownership of land rehabilitation processes should be the starting point of rehabilitating eroded abandoned lands. A dedicated programme has to be developed within the land degradation neutrality framework to rehabilitate and restore abandoned lands, as degradation hotspots. Promoting disconnectivity on invaded hillslopes and applying standard gully control measures will initiate and enhance rehabilitation from a degraded state., Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
| 英文关键词 | Abandoned lands; Disconnectivity; Ecohydrological impacts; Emergent vegetation patterns; Soil properties |
| 来源期刊 | Climate Change Management
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/176267 |
| 作者单位 | Department of Geosciences, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kakembo V.. The Loss of Agricultural and Ecological Resilience in Abandoned Lands of the Eastern Cape Province; South Africa[J],2019. |
| APA | Kakembo V..(2019).The Loss of Agricultural and Ecological Resilience in Abandoned Lands of the Eastern Cape Province; South Africa.Climate Change Management. |
| MLA | Kakembo V.."The Loss of Agricultural and Ecological Resilience in Abandoned Lands of the Eastern Cape Province; South Africa".Climate Change Management (2019). |
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