TY - CHAP AU - Duanyang Xu ED - Levente Hufnagel Y1 - 2018-10-03 PY - 2018 T1 - The Impact of Desertification Dynamics on Regional Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Inner Mongolia (China) N2 - The aim and purpose of our book, Community and Global Ecology of Deserts, is to give an overview and report from the frontiers of desert ecological research. The ecology of deserts as a scientific discipline plays a key role in solving many of global problems due to collective adaptation methods and approaches of lifeforms living in extreme environments. If ecologists or environmental scientists are talking about desert ecological research, then almost everyone is thinking about specific desert flora, fauna, or desertification itself as a consequence of climate change, or sand dune-triggered disasters. In fact, the importance of ecological research in deserts is far more general and broader. We hope that our book will be interesting and useful for researchers, lecturers, students and anybody interested in this field. BT - Community and Global Ecology of Deserts SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.74817 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.74817 SN - 978-1-78923-894-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -