To prevent potentially unsuitable activities during vegetation restoration, it is important to examine the impact of historical restoration activities on the target ecological system to inform future restoration policies. Taking the Loess Plateau of China as an example, a regionalization method and corresponding scheme were proposed to select suitable vegetation types (forested lands, woody gra...

the objectives of this study were to understand the rainfall characteristics of thewind-water erosion crisscross region on the northern loess plateau, china, to provide basisfor the studies on mitigation of soil erosion, estimation on surface water resources andlocal hydrological circle, etc. the liudaogou catchment with representative climatic andhydrologic conditions of wind-water erosion cri...

1 State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangling 712100, China 2 College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710027, China; E-Mails: [email protected] (X.Y.); [email protected] (J.Z.); [email protected] (Y.L.); [email protected] (Y.Z.); zha...

1State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS and MWR, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 4Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Starkvil...

Liquid water and ice are the dominant agents of erosion and sediment transport in most actively growing mountain belts. An exception is in the western Qaidam basin along the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, where wind and windblown sand have sculpted enormous yardang fields in actively folding sedimentary strata. Here, we present observations suggesting that since the late Pliocene, ...

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...