Assertion: desertification | /r/HasProperty | characterized by following components
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text: As another example, Meckelein (1976; cited in Kharin and Petrov, 1977) alluded to the disciplinary bases for desertification when he wrote that desertification could be characterized by the following components: climate: increasing aridity (diminishing water supply); hydrological processes: runoff becoming more irregular; morphodynamic processes: intensification of distinct geomorphological processes (accelerated soil erosion by wind and water); soil dynamics: desiccation of soils and accumulation of salt; vegetation dynamics: decline of vegetation.