Detailed maps of regional spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) are needed to guide sustainable soil uses and management decisions. Interpolation methods based on spatial auto-correlations, environmental covariates, or hybrid methods are commonly used to predict SOC maps. Many of these methods perform well for gentle terrains. However, it is unknown how these methods perform to capt...

A new genus, Cystobasidiopsis, and a new species, Cystobasidiopsis nirenbergiae, are described for a fungus isolated from an arable loess soil in Ahlum near Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany. An integrated analysis of morphological, ecological, ultrastructural and molecular data indicates that the new species belongs to the Chionosphaeraceae within the Agaricostilbales. Relevant characterist...

To better understand and analyze the unsaturated stability of loess filling body, it is necessary to study changes in suction stress before after drying-wetting cycles. In this study, SWCC compacted cycles was tested using filter paper method. Then, calculated microstructure sample determined by SEM NMR. The results showed that had an important influence on SSCC loess. change can be well explai...

1 GULD, Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden 2 Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt 4 State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Acade...

1 Key Laboratory of Restoration and Reconstruction of Degraded Ecosystem in North-western China of Ministry of Education, United Center for Ecology Research and Bioresource Exploitation in Western China, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China. 2 National Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University,...

State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710075, China State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of S...

The Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) is the largest loess deposit on Earth with expansive surface-exposed source rocks of varying origins, ages, and history. Here, we present abundances elements representative palaeosol samples from seven classic sections CLP. Most elements, including soluble (e.g. Rb Cs), show significant correlations La or Al2O3. These indicate that these are hosted absorbed in pa...

In order to assess the impact of natural and anthropogenic stresses on forest ecosystems, it is necessary to interpolate air temperature and tropospheric ozone (O3) exposure values at high spatial resolution over complex terrain. The proposed interpolation approach was selected because of its ability to (1) account for the effect of elevation on temperature and their effects on tropospheric ozo...

Slope is one of a crucial terrain variables in spatial analysis and land use planning, especially in China Loess Plateau area where suffer from serious soil erosion disasters. DEM based slope extracting method has been widely accepted and applied in practice. However slope accuracy derived per this method usually does not match with their popularity. A quantitative simulation to slope data unce...

Large-scale vegetation restoration in China’s Loess Plateau has been initiated by the central government for controlling soil andwater losses in the past three decades. However, there is virtually no guidance for plant species selection for the restoration purpose. We investigated the effects of planting trees and shrubs, land-use conversions from croplands to pastures and native grasslands on ...