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{"title":"Potential effects of climate change on cacti distribution and conservation in North American drylands","authors":"Fábio Suzart de Albuquerque ,&nbsp;Miguel Ángel Macías-Rodríguez ,&nbsp;Alberto Búrquez ,&nbsp;Arnóbio de Mendonça Barreto Cavalcante","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105282","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105282","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change is expected to adversely impact dryland biodiversity by reducing habitat suitability, especially for cacti species. One way to mitigate such effects on cacti is to reinforce the integrity of areas of high importance for their conservation, also known as high-value conservation areas (HVCA). To better understand the distribution of HVCA and their potential vulnerability to climate change, we produced habitat suitability maps for 393 cacti species across North American drylands. We then used spatial analysis to assess hot spots of cacti' habitat suitability and their overlap and mismatch. A total of 217 (55.2%) species had their habitat suitability primarily influenced by measures of precipitation (170 species), precipitation seasonality in particular, and temperature (77 species). Our study reveals climate change will impact cacti habitat suitability across North America's drylands. We also report a strong overlay among HVCA in current and future climate scenarios. Results show that most HVCA is not represented by protected areas. This research emphasizes the need for managers and conservationists to consider the influence of climate when selecting areas for conservation and to anticipate the potential effects of climate change on the spatial configuration of priority areas for the conservation of cacti species.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"226 ","pages":"Article 105282"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142747503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating climate shifts for an endemic lizard from a semi-arid environment","authors":"Mateus Almeida Santos ,&nbsp;Bianca Barros Zaballa ,&nbsp;Flávia dos Santos Bomfim ,&nbsp;Thieres Santos Almeida ,&nbsp;Hugo Andrade ,&nbsp;Fernanda Melo Gomes ,&nbsp;Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecological niche models (ENMs) are crucial for understanding species distribution and identifying areas maintaining climatic stability over time (i.e., thermal refugia). Human-induced global climate change underscores the importance of such refugia, which directly impacts species distribution, especially for ectothermic species relying on the environmental temperature to keep their metabolism active. <em>Tropidurus cocorobensis</em> is an endemic, heliothermic, and generalist lizard from Caatinga, a heterogeneous semi-arid domain characterized by low and irregular precipitation patterns and high temperature and solar radiation. Despite its endemism, there is no information concerning temporarily stable (refugial) and unstable (recently colonized) regions for its occurrence, nor future predictions of local thermal suitability in different climate change scenarios. Using ENMs, we assessed Caatinga's past, present, and future thermal suitability for <em>T. cocorobensis,</em> identifying potential changes in its thermal refugia over time. Our results indicated Depressão Sertaneja Meridional (DSM) and Campo Maior Complex (CMC) as climatically stable Caatinga Ecoregions, serving as climate refugia for <em>T. cocorobensis.</em> While DSM covers much of the species' current distribution, CMC lacks occurrence data. Contrastingly, the Chapada Diamantina Complex, a known habitat for the species, was not recovered as a climate refugia nor was suitable for future scenarios, therefore representing a climatically unstable area. Future projections indicate a potential expansion of <em>T. cocorobensis'</em> climate refugia, possibly linked to the species' generalist habits. However, the optimistic outlook for this species may not mirror the overall well-being of the Caatinga domain since generalist species often fill niches left by specialists unable to adapt to stressful environments. Future studies should prioritize comparing the climatic refugia of specialist and generalist species envisioning a comprehensive understanding of the ecological dynamics within the Caatinga ecosystem. This approach will be crucial for formulating effective conservation strategies amid the ongoing challenges of climate change in this domain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"226 ","pages":"Article 105281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Projectiles from Yemen? A unique discovery of geometric microliths in a mortuary site of the mid-first millennium BCE in the Negev Highlands, Israel","authors":"Jacob Vardi ,&nbsp;Tali Erickson-Gini ,&nbsp;Lauren W. Davis ,&nbsp;Yonah Maor ,&nbsp;Martin David Pasternak","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105270","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The following paper describes a unique assemblage of geometric microliths uncovered inside a newly discovered mortuary complex dated to the Iron Age IIB-C and early Achaemenid Persian periods (seventh to fifth centuries BCE) in the Negev Highlands of southern Israel. The complex contained dozens of interments together with incense burners and alabaster incense containers, mortars and pestles brought from Southern Arabia. The deceased, many of whom were young women, were buried with copper and silver jewelry and a variety of trinkets such as beads, pendants, earrings, bone rings, shells, scarabs, and amulets from Egypt, the Red Sea region, Southern Arabia, and the Mediterranean basin. We suggest that the microliths described here were either imports from the southern Arabian Peninsula or, based on other finds from the site, were fabricated in the Negev by a foreigner who originated from that region and were probably a burial offering for one of the deceased.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142704448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resource allocation below- and above-ground organs and their association to the environment in Mammillaria Haw. (Cactaceae)","authors":"Ulises Rosas ,&nbsp;Jerónimo Reyes-Santiago ,&nbsp;David Aquino ,&nbsp;Omar Zorzano ,&nbsp;José de Jesús Sánchez-González ,&nbsp;Fernanda Guadalupe Chávez-Vallejo","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105280","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105280","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When studying plant growth, often the below-ground section is overlooked, and only the above-ground portion is studied. In cacti this bias is emphasized because of the slow growth and high mortality of seedlings in natural, mostly arid environments. Yet, little is known about how cacti invest their resources in building the above- and below-ground sections of the plant. Here we address the issue by studying a range of species in the genus <em>Mammillaria</em> (Cactaceae), and found a diversity of strategies, even in closely related lineages. Taking the forms and shapes of these species, we also proposed growth forms as seedling and as adult plants, discussing that despite being small cacti, <em>Mammillaria</em> species explore an ample diversity of growth forms. Finally, we investigated the prevalence of species to edaphic and landform factors, and found little evidence of a norm among <em>Mammillaria</em> species. Together our results show the interesting diversity in the <em>Mammillaria</em> genus that can be explored for functional and ecological studies in cacti.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105280"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Valuing drought impact mitigation on ecosystem services in a Mediterranean country","authors":"Begoña A. Farizo ,&nbsp;Miguel Sevilla-Callejo ,&nbsp;Mario Soliño ,&nbsp;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano ,&nbsp;Juan I. López-Moreno ,&nbsp;Angelina Lázaro-Alquézar ,&nbsp;Conor Murphy ,&nbsp;Sam Grainger ,&nbsp;Tobias Conradt ,&nbsp;Hongxiao Jin ,&nbsp;Boris Boincean","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105277","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105277","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drought is a complex natural hazard increasing in frequency, duration, and severity worldwide. Although droughts cause both market and non-market impacts, the latter suffers from a dearth of economic studies quantifying their magnitude. In this paper, we investigated how droughts affect selected ecosystem services expected to result in welfare losses in Spain. This study is aimed at quantifying and simulating societal losses given the expected potential increase in drought severity in the coming decades. We estimated a Discrete Choice Latent Class Model by which we distinguished three broad classes of individuals. The common behavior across all classes is that people consistently choose to avoid the negative effects of droughts. However, there are substantial differences among the three classes; while class 1 chooses options regardless of cost, even when selecting the most expensive ones, the other two classes account for the size of the payment. Moreover, health and water use restrictions have been decisive factors in individuals' choices. We have also observed that the perception of climate change is related to individual decisions. We quantified the enormous damage drought causes to societal well-being. Policymakers should take this information into account when addressing the increasing likelihood of extreme weather events.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Think outside the road: Negev connectivity beyond the ‘Nabatean incense route’","authors":"Gil Gambash ,&nbsp;Gideon Avni ,&nbsp;Guy Bar-Oz","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105276","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105276","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the Negev road-economy from the rise of the Nabatean civilization to the Early Islamic period (3rd C. BCE – 9th C. CE), focusing on the region's complex commerce networks, which connected between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean basin and, more broadly, between east and west. We discuss the economy of goods-transportation within the system of Negev connectivity, and we propose to update the limiting boundary lines imposed by the title ‘The Nabatean Incense Route’ on the medium connecting between Aila, Petra and Gaza. Our main aims are: to emphasize the longevity of the system, which functioned long before and after the <em>floruit</em> of the Nabatean society; to highlight the wide and colorful array of participants – other than the Nabateans themselves – who were acting within the system for their respective commercial purposes; to demonstrate the wealth of goods which was transported by means of the system in both directions – far beyond incense or even spice and aromatics more broadly; and to show how transportation itself was carried out throughout the system along networks of roads and hubs, rather than through a single, linear road.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the impacts of climate variations and armed conflict on drought and vegetation cover in Northeast Syria (2000–2023)","authors":"Abdullah Sukkar ,&nbsp;Ammar Abulibdeh ,&nbsp;Sara Essoussi ,&nbsp;Dursun Zafer Seker","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105278","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105278","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the last decades, The Northeast part of Syria (NES) has been significantly affected by multiple drought events, which are exacerbated by armed conflict and climate variations. In this study, the spatiotemporal effects of climate fluctuations on drought episodes and agricultural areas in NES from 2000 to 2023 were examined by utilizing diverse meteorological parameters combined with the normalized difference vegetation index. The relationships between the change in climatic variables and vegetation cover alterations were determined by performing different statistical methods, such as the Pearson correlation coefficient and Mann-Kendall trend analysis. The results indicated a significant decrease in the agricultural area, especially in recent years, accompanied by a notable increase in the precipitation levels. Moreover, there has been a substantial increase in temperatures, particularly in the minimum temperatures. The results also indicate that drought severity and frequency have increased since the armed conflict despite the area receiving higher precipitation amounts, highlighting the role and impacts of violence. Therefore, we recommend further research on how different vegetation species have been affected by climate change and armed conflict, defining specific growing seasons for each vegetation species, and creating land use land cover maps to understand the spatial alteration of these types better.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105278"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142592626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Bringing water values into play in the Atacama desert water crisis” [J. Arid Environ. (2024) 1–12 105256]","authors":"Raphael Cantillana ,&nbsp;José Luis Molina ,&nbsp;Irene Iniesta-Arandia","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105275","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105275"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142560567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When environment meets culture in the arid margin of the Southern Levant","authors":"A. Nigel Goring-Morris,&nbsp;Anna Belfer-Cohen","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105262","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105262","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research in the arid margins of the Southern Levant has revealed a series of cultural entities related to and interacting with analogues in the more mesic Mediterranean zone. These terminal Pleistocene (Epipalaeolithic) and early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic) foraging entities display clearly local traits reflecting restricted networking and adaptations at times when environmental conditions deteriorated, and the connections with contemporaneous cultural entities farther afield weakened, combined with connections with the wider pan-regional cultural entities. By examining the specific example of the short-lived Late Epipalaeolithic Harifian culture we attempt to illustrate the manner in which local social behaviours in the landscapes of the arid margins may have contributed to maximizing and prolonging cultural adaptations there especially during periods of variable, yet generally challenging environmental conditions during the Younger Dryas (YD), with a greater degree of isolation from the 'sown land'. Ultimately, a threshold was reached towards the end of the YD, and the Harifian adaptation ceased to be viable, so they had little choice but to abandon their former territories in the Negev and northern Sinai to more favourable environmental conditions, near and, perhaps, far. Speculatively, having to merge with different groups as conditions there were not improving and 'packing' was tight, may have contributed to the emergence of large-scale 'archaic' villages of the PPNA.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105262"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hydrological dichotomy: Streamflow drought in dammed vs. undammed regions of the largest Indian Peninsular basin","authors":"Meghomala Ghosal ,&nbsp;Somil Swarnkar ,&nbsp;Vikas Poonia ,&nbsp;Soumya Kundu ,&nbsp;Shreejit Pandey","doi":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105273","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recurring streamflow drought is a significant problem, and it is necessary to comprehend the spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of historical droughts in order to manage future water supplies effectively. Drought has significant and often severe effects on semi-arid and arid zones due to the already limited availability of water in these regions. Therefore, this research examines streamflow drought fluctuations in India's second-largest basin, the Godavari. The Godavari Basin experiences diverse climatic conditions ranging from humid in the Western Ghats to semi-arid in central and western regions. Frequent hydrological droughts have plagued the Godavari basin. Still, the impact of human activities and climate change on the streamflow drought characteristics in the Godavari basin has not been thoroughly investigated. Further, assessing the regional control of streamflow drought deficit and intensity in a large river basin like Godavari is crucial. The findings show that streamflow drought is worst in central and eastern Godavari. Additionally, dammed and undammed locations have different streamflow drought characteristics. Droughts have lengthened in dam-affected areas. However, regions without dams have seen more deficit and intensity. Thus, different sustainable water management techniques are needed for the dammed and undammed regions of the Godavari basin.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51080,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Arid Environments","volume":"225 ","pages":"Article 105273"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142534163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}