Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Understanding dryland dynamics is essential to predict future climate trajectories. However,
there remains large uncertainty on the extent to which drylands are expanding or greening …

The land use and land cover change (LUCC) associated with climate change and human
activities is supposed to exert a significant effect on ecosystem functions in arid inland …

Degradation of ecosystems can occur when certain ecological thresholds are passed below
which ecosystem responses remain within 'safe ecological limits'. Ecosystems such as …

Facing the need for transdisciplinary research to promote ecological restoration that
achieves both social and ecological benefits, research on past restoration efforts that have …

Quantifying the contributions of climate change (CC) and human activities (HA) to vegetation
change is crucial for making a sustainable vegetation restoration scheme. However, the …

China is prone to broad land degradation and thus has been implementing ecological
restoration projects (ERPs) since the reform and opening up. The extent of ERPs, as well as …

Since Shi et al. proposed that the climate in the drylands of Northwest China experienced a
significant transition from a “warming and drying” trend to a “warming and wetting” trend in …

Soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in arid inland regions is significantly affected by land use
and land cover change (LUCC) associated with climate change and agricultural activities. A …

As a sensitive region, identifying land cover change in drylands is critical to understanding
global environmental change. However, the current findings related to land cover change in …