Substantial climate change and intensive anthropogenic activities hamper efforts to explain
and predict the variability of the terrestrial water balance. The Budyko framework has …

Drylands are important ecosystems that are facing severe challenges under a changing
climate. The relationships between soil moisture and vegetation have garnered international …

Vegetation restoration not only extensively reshapes spatial land use patterns but also
profoundly affects the dynamics of runoff and sediment loss. However, the influence of …

Soil erosion control (SEC), carbon sequestration (CAS), and soil moisture (SMO) strongly
interact in the semi-arid Loess Plateau. Since SMO has supportive effects on SEC and CAS …

Revegetation and check dam construction are two widely applied soil erosion control
measures on the Loess Plateau of China. They play important roles in sediment yield …

Balancing trade-off between multiple ecosystem services (ESs) is critical for restored
ecosystem, including in the Loess Plateau of China where ESs are undergoing significant …

Soil erosion leads to land fertility reduction and land degradation, which threaten food and
ecological security. Therefore, it is fundamental for soil erosion risk control to accurately …

Executive summary The land challenges, in the context of this report, are climate change
mitigation, adaptation, desertification, land degradation, and food security. The chapter also …

The semiarid region of Brazil undergoes constant changes in land use due to the process of
deforestation and high water seasonality, represented among other variables by a decline in …

Study region This study was developed in two paired catchments under a tropical dry
climate with a tropical dry forest landcover subject to vegetation management in the …