Huang Jui-hsiang of the University of Hawaii says that the infertility of the soil and the aridity of the climate caused by desertification will make it extremely difficult for saplings to take root and survive.
美國夏威夷大學研究員黃瑞祥也指出，大陸北方長期沙化的結果，表土層已變得極薄、氣候又乾燥，樹苗如果根紮得不深，很難競爭得過「野火燒不盡，春風吹又生」的野草，存活率恐怕很低。