Independent experts nominated by country party

I am specialized in the relationships between water, soil and vegetation in arid and semi-arid environments. As such, I worked on the consequences of overexploitation on disfunctioning of soil water regime and, by that, on vegetation structure, dynamics and physiological functioning._x000D_
On some very arid substrats under limited rainfall, bare areas are not relevant to degradation processes but to a natural adaptation of the vegetation distribution to optimize water trapping by the way of runoff-runon structure. Generally, the productivity of these heterogeneous systems is higher than a diffuse distribution of the vegetation in similar soil and climate conditions._x000D_
Now, stating from these findings, observed in Mexico and in Australia as well as in Africa (and probably observable in most of the arid/semi-arid zones in the world), I am working with an australian team on their conceptual approach of the landscape function. It consists in deducing, from the nature and the scale of the patc