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During a 35-year period from the 1950s to the 1990s, its landscapes changed significantly. In most of the desert, desertification developed rapidly, swallowing grassland, while marginal areas in the east and south were restored to some extent. By the late 1990s, shifting and semi-fixed deserts
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covered 45% and 21% of the Mu Us Desert, while fixed desert decreased by 7.2% of the entire desert. Desertification was much more severe in the middle and north-west pasture land areas than in the eastern and southern areas of farmland and pasture. Overuse,
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Yan, Changzhen; Wang, Tao; Han, Zhiwen. 2005. Using MODIS data to access land desertification in Ordos Plateau -- Mu Us Desert case study. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International (Volume:4). DOI:
337:, the elevation ranges from 1,000m to 1,300m (as low as 950m in some south-eastern valleys, and reaching between 1,400m to 1,600m in the north-western area). It is the only one of China's twelve sandy zones that is in the transition between a typical 812:
Dong, Guangrong; Li, Baoshen: Gao, Shangyu. 1882. The Case Study of the Vicissitude of Mu Us Desert Since the Late Pleistocene According to the Selesus River Strata. Journal of Desert Research. Vol. 3, No. 2. Page numbers not available on the
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As early as 453 BC, the Yiju people built a double wall in the southern region of the Mu Us Desert to protect themselves against the northernmost Chinese states. Of these states, the Qin were especially threatening, although the
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To rehabilitate desertified land, Dong, et al. recommended abandoning unsustainable land management practices in 1982, referring to them as "the current irrational human activities" and gaining a better understanding of how
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of the Salawusu River in the area of the Mu Us Desert. This suggests that the prehistoric climate was mild and wet with numerous rivers and lakes, yet limited plant life and wildlife in the early stage of the
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Runnström, M. C. Rangeland. 2002. Rangeland development of the Mu Us Desert in semiarid China: an analysis using Landsat and NOAA remote sensing data. Land Degradation & Development 14(2):189-202.
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A 2017 study marked that desertification was controlled, but that the area was still at risk for new desertification in the future, as a result of grassland reclamation and groundwater consumption.
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become more frequent due to damaged vegetation caused mostly by moving sand. Groundwater is present at relatively shallow depth of between 1 and 3 meter below ground level in area between dunes.
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as lakes with marsh sediments formed. Later, the climate changed back to dry and cold, allowing a semi-arid steppe landscape to form. These climatic fluctuations were caused by the
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Chen, Yu Fu; Yu, Fei Hai; Dong, Ming. 2002. Scale-dependent spatial heterogeneity of vegetation in Mu Us Desert: a semi-arid area of China. Plant Ecology 162:135-142.
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The annual mean temperature is between 6.0 and 8.5 °C. The mean annual precipitation is between 250 and 400 mm, of which the majority falls in summer.
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Wu, Bo; Ci, Long J. 2002. Landscape change and desertification development in the Mu Us Sandyland, Northern China. Journal of Arid Environments 50(3):429-444
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affects the natural environment. Those writers suggested that the human activities must be carefully managed to meet both human and environmental needs.
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also are reported to have done wall building in the area. Later in history, the Qin dominated all of this area and built walls. In 129 BC, the
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gained control of the area and strengthened the walls although they were still fighting to maintain control in AD 45. Much later, the
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resulted in an increase in both grazing and farmland production. The area under cultivation increased fivefold from 1978 to 1996. The
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has experienced an increase in both total biomass and number of grazing animals. Active measures which have been taken to limit
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sand began to accumulate in the later stage of the Late Pleistocene age. The climate changed again to mild and wet early in the
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The Mu Us Desert of north central China lies at 37°30'–39°20'N,107°20'–111°30'E and covers 48,288 km. As part of the
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in the north east; and the Mu Us Desert in the south. The northern portion goes by another name—for example, a map in
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include a variety of sand types which are easily moved by the wind. In the south of the Great Wall (see below), sand
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Lovell, Julia. 2006. The Great Wall, China Against the World, 1000 BCE-AD 2000. Grove Press. New York, USA.
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was the main way of life for local people. The Mu Us Desert lies in a transition zone where areas of both
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Reader's Digest Assoc., Inc. 2004. Reader's Digest Illustrated World Atlas. Pleasantville, N. Y., USA
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have resulted in increased vegetation cover and lowered potential for wind erosion. The increase in
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As noted above, the Mu Us Desert forms part of Ordos Plateau and includes part of the
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Donovan Webster. 2002. China's Unknown Gobi Alashan. National Geographic 201(1):48-75
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Keay, John. 2009. China, a History. Basic Books. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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begins and where the Mu Us Desert ends. The Ordos comprises two sub-deserts: the
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Karnieli, Arnon; Qin, Zhihao; Wu, Bo; Panov, Natalya; Yan, Feng (2014-09-29).
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policy, after 2000, the area of cultivated land was decreased.
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After 1949, the Chinese government carried out a variety of
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Research in the Salawusu River Area in 1978 delineated the
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with a concave floor. Exposed sands in the area come from
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The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC–2000 AD
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seem to be thriving under the current high levels of
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Index

Ordos Desert

Mongolian
Chinese
Shaanxi
Inner Mongolia
Ningxia
Coordinates
38°45′00″N 109°09′58″E / 38.7500°N 109.1660°E / 38.7500; 109.1660
Mongolian
Ordos
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
desert
Ordos Plateau
Inner Mongolia
Northwest China
Ming Great Wall
Ordos Desert
Wuding River
Ordos Loop
Yellow River
Ordos Desert
Kubuqi Desert
Julia Lovell
Inner Mongolia
Yellow River
Shaanxi
Gansu

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