Impacts of Latent Desertification

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Balasupramaniam Paramahamsa. Impacts of Latent Desertification

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Latent Desertification and Major environmental harms

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A latent desert on the contrary is a stretch of land which has more than 250 mm moisture precipitation per year. But the amount of botany present in the respective area is less than 5%. It is not a result of natural process; it is forced by human activities or spread of herbivores. The area can be small like a yard and big like a city but must hold the ability to be resilient of its own the moment conditions change.

Pic 3. Above is a region with an annual precipitation that exceeds 2000 mm. Under the rule of nature it should have been thick grove. Now a typical latent-desert. The botany in the stretch had been just removed to be less than 5%. The conversion to latent desert has been not natural, nor caused by distant vectors. It has been forced directly at the place to satisfy a human need.

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