The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort,
funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for …

Afforestation is an effective approach to rehabilitate degraded ecosystems, but often
depletes deep soil moisture. Presently, it is not known how an afforestation‐induced …

Drylands are particularly sensitive to climate change, and soil water availability is critical for
dryland ecosystems. Climate change and large-scale ecological restoration have led to …

Although evidence of ecosystem productivity to vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and soil
moisture (SM) is abundant, their respective effects remain unclear due to tightly land …

Vegetation greening steered by land use management in the Chinese Loess Plateau has
been widely reported, however studies that quantitatively assessing and explicitly linking the …

Soil erosion is the most severe form of land degradation threatening terrestrial ecosystems
globally. Drylands with fragile ecosystems are particularly sensitive to soil erosion. China's …

Vegetation changes in karst areas are controlled by the soil formation rate (SFR) and soil
moisture (SM). However, little is known about their thresholds and global control patterns. To …

Documenting the spatiotemporal changes in vegetation cover and hydrological cycle of the
Earth system and understanding how they interact are important especially under climate …

Land degradation is the persistent reduction in the capacity of the land to support human
and other life on Earth (IPBES, 2018). This process jeopardizes the provision of ecosystem …