Accurately monitoring the crop water conditions (CWC) is vital for agricultural water
management. Traditional in situ measurements are limited by inefficiency and lack of spatial …

Large scale Ecosystem restoration projects (ERPs) have been implemented to restore
vegetation and increase carbon stocks across China. However, whether restored vegetation …

The “dry gets drier, and wet gets wetter”(DDWW) paradigm has been widely used to
summarize the expected trends of the global hydrologic cycle under climate change …

Abstract The Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) and the Standardized Precipitation
Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) are two of the most commonly used drought indices …

Droughts continuously threaten human life, livestock, and agriculture across the Horn of
Africa (HOA). As climate change exacerbates drought frequency and severity, accurately …

Large wildfires have increased in western US rangelands over the last three decades. There
is limited information on the impacts of wildfires with different severities on the vegetation in …

Wind erosion and dust emission from drylands have large consequences for ecosystem
function and human health. Wind erosion is naturally reduced by soil crusting and sheltering …

Investigating the impacts of climate change on soil desiccation in planted forests is of
theoretical and practical importance for water resource management and ecological …

In drylands, water‐limited regions that cover~ 40% of the global land surface, ecosystems
are primarily controlled by access to soil moisture and exposure to simultaneously hot and …

Crafting a comprehensive strategy to mitigate the impact of droughts, a complex geo-hazard
profoundly affecting socio-economic aspects, entails the creation of a drought vulnerability …