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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:
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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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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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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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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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1776:Patagonian
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1594:Red Desert
1534:Forty Mile
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