Assertion: desertification | /r/HasProperty | predominant influence
Facets:
value: on dust production
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Over the past 43 years, the area of China occupied by deserts increased ∼2%[Zhong , 1999] to 7%[Zhu and Zhu , 1999] in average (Figure 1), and if desertification were the predominant influence on dust production, the emissions and dust storm reports would have followed an increasing trend, and the averaged emission during 1980 to 1999 would have had a higher value than that during 1960 to 1979.