1. Potential impacts of climate change on Welwitschia mirabilis populations in the Namib Desert, southern Africa

   • Pierluigi Bombi

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2018 Pages: 663 - 672

2. Characteristics of daily extreme wind gusts on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

   • Zhengyi Yao
   • Xiaoying Li
   • Jianhua Xiao

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 673 - 685

3. Characteristics of air pollution events over Hotan Prefecture at the southwestern edge of Taklimakan Desert, China

   • Jingxin Li
   • Shigong Wang
   • Kezheng Shang

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 686 - 700

4. Precipitation and soil particle size co-determine spatial distribution of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

   • Lin Wu
   • Yuanming Zhang

   OriginalPaper 13 August 2018 Pages: 701 - 711

5. Changes in soil properties and erodibility of gully heads induced by vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau, China

   • Mingming Guo
   • Wenlong Wang
   • Bo Yang

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 712 - 725

6. Hierarchical responses of soil organic and inorganic carbon dynamics to soil acidification in a dryland agroecosystem, China

   • Shaofei Jin
   • Xiaohong Tian
   • Hesong Wang

   OriginalPaper 14 August 2018 Pages: 726 - 736

7. Soil microbial activity and community structure as affected by exposure to chloride and chloride-sulfate salts

   • Qianqian Zhang
   • Steven A. Wakelin
   • Guixin Chu

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 737 - 749

8. Clones or no clones: genetic structure of riparian Populus euphratica forests in Central Asia

   • Katja Kramp
   • Thomas Schmitt
   • Frank M. Thomas

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 750 - 766

9. Canopy cover or remotely sensed vegetation index, explanatory variables of above-ground biomass in an arid rangeland, Iran

   • Fatemeh Pordel
   • Ataollah Ebrahimi
   • Zahra Azizi

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 767 - 780

10. Estimation of net primary productivity and its driving factors in the Ili River Valley, China

    • Wei Jiao
    • Yaning Chen
    • Zhi Li

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 781 - 793

11. Mulching mode and planting density affect canopy interception loss of rainfall and water use efficiency of dryland maize on the Loess Plateau of China

    • Jing Zheng
    • Junliang Fan
    • Zhijun Li

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 794 - 808

12. Suppression of weeds and weed seeds in the soil by stubbles and no-tillage in an arid maize-winter wheat-common vetch rotation on the Loess Plateau of China

    • Mei Yang
    • Yuxin Zhao
    • Xiaoyan Zhang

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2018 Pages: 809 - 820