Covering extensive parts of China, karst is a critically important landscape that has
experienced rapid and intensive land use change and associated ecosystem degradation …

Rocky desertification induced by soil loss is a serious ecological problem in karst mountain
areas. Lack of awareness in the local population of the need for soil conservation has led to …

Karst ecosystems are important to several billion people, so it is necessary to accurately
diagnose and evaluate the health of these ecosystems for socioeconomic development; …

Land surface temperature (LST) can reflect the land surface water-heat exchange process
comprehensively, which is considerably significant to the study of environmental change …

Underground pore fissure and bedrock bareness are the main factors that lead to
complicated mechanisms of soil erosion in karst regions. The objectives of this study were …

As an extreme manifestation of environmental degradation, karst rock desertification is
caused by soil loss and rock exposure. In some areas with serious rocky desertification …

Due to the impacts of global warming, extreme precipitation events are increasing in
frequency and are accelerating the process of rocky desertification in the karst area in …

Three typical karst rocky desertification regions in South China Karst were selected as
experiment sites. The succession of karst rocky desertification was divided into five typical …

Reliable estimation of erosion in karst areas is difficult because of the heterogeneous nature
of infiltration and sub-surface drainage. Understanding the processes involved is a key …

Karst slopes have thin soil layers covering bedrock and feature multiple near-surface soil-
rock interfaces (SRIs), which can produce hydrological processes that differ from those of …