Floods are among Earth's most common natural hazards, and they cause major economic
losses and seriously affect peoples' lives and health. This paper addresses the development …

Slope aspect plays a critical role in influencing vegetation pattern in semiarid area. The dry
valleys of the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwestern China, are striking geographical …

Previous studies on semi‐arid ecosystems have shown high values of soil moisture
variability (SMV) primarily induced by the combined effects of non‐uniform precipitation …

Soil‐mantled pole‐facing hillslopes on Earth tend to be steeper, wetter, and have more
vegetation cover compared with adjacent equator‐facing hillslopes. These and other slope …

Feedback mechanisms between abiotic and biotic processes in dryland ecosystems lead to
a strong sensitivity to interannual variations in climate. Under a future regime of higher …

Solar radiation has a clear signature on the spatial organization of ecohydrologic fluxes,
vegetation patterns and dynamics, and landscape morphology in semiarid ecosystems …

A novel two‐dimensional, physically based model of soil erosion and sediment transport
coupled to models of hydrological and overland flow processes has been developed. The …

We investigate the influence of hillslope aspect on landscape morphology in central New
Mexico, where differences in soils, vegetation, and landforms are observed between mesic …

In semiarid complex terrain, the combination of elevation and aspect promotes variations in
the water and energy balance, resulting in slopes with distinct ecologic and hydrologic …

This paper examines the relationship between land surface properties (eg soil, vegetation,
and lithology) and landscape morphology quantified by the catchment descriptors: the slope …