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… of the following: productivity, soil, vegetation cover, biomass, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and environmental … Dynamics (LPD) dataset that refers to the standing biomass productivity, and is derived from phenological … strictly refers to the overall above-ground vegetation biomass productivity. This is not conceptually the same as, …

… of human life, including: (a) the production of biomass and the filtering, buffering and transformation … • Soils are used for agriculture and forestry produce biomass. 13 Houghton, P.D. and P.E.V. Charman, 1986, Glossary … in quantity and in quality than all the above-ground biomass. 2.1.2 Cultural Functions of Soil • Soils are a …

… (in summary): According to current knowledge, soils are biomass produc- tion systems; substance transformation … biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Soil produces biomass; it acts as a filtering, buffering and transformation …

… devoid of vegetation suitable for natural fuel so woody biomass harvesting is prevalent as the main form of fuel. … a sharp decline in the vegetation cover ratio have reduced biomass accumulation and firewood resources. Cutting of … desert shrub by farmers for firewood has further destroyed biomass and worsened the LD. 97 The rate of increase of air …