1. Effects of climate change and human activity on lake shrinkage in Gonghe Basin of northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the past 60 years

   • Duo Wu
   • Fahu Chen
   • Aifeng Zhou

   OriginalPaper 30 April 2016 Pages: 479 - 491

2. Drought fluctuations based on dendrochronology since 1786 for the Lenglongling Mountains at the northwestern fringe of the East Asian summer monsoon region

   • Ying Hou
   • Zhenmin Niu
   • Xuemin Zhang

   OriginalPaper 15 March 2016 Pages: 492 - 505

3. Runoff of arid and semi-arid regions simulated and projected by CLM-DTVGM and its multi-scale fluctuations as revealed by EEMD analysis

   • Like Ning
   • Jun Xia
   • Yongyong Zhang

   OriginalPaper 30 April 2016 Pages: 506 - 520

4. Regime dynamics of hydrochemical and toxicological parameters of the Irtysh River in Kazakhstan

   • Diana M. Burlibayeva
   • Malik Zh. Burlibayev
   • Anming Bao

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2016 Pages: 521 - 532

5. Assessing ecological vulnerability in western China based on Time-Integrated NDVI data

   • Jia Jin
   • Quan Wang

   OriginalPaper 19 April 2016 Pages: 533 - 545

6. Soil hydraulic conductivity as affected by vegetation restoration age on the Loess Plateau, China

   • Zongping Ren
   • Liangjun Zhu
   • Shengdong Cheng

   OriginalPaper 15 March 2016 Pages: 546 - 555

7. Spatial-temporal dynamics of desert vegetation and its responses to climatic variations over the last three decades: a case study of Hexi region in Northwest China

   • Xuemei Yang
   • Shizeng Liu
   • Zhiqi Li

   OriginalPaper 14 April 2016 Pages: 556 - 568

8. Impact of sand burial on maize (Zea mays L.) productivity and soil quality in Horqin sandy cropland, Inner Mongolia, China

   • Shaokun Wang
   • Xueyong Zhao
   • Jianying Yun

   OriginalPaper 19 April 2016 Pages: 569 - 578

9. Effects of long-term fertilization on oxidizable organic carbon fractions on the Loess Plateau, China

   • Shaonan Ding
   • Sha Xue
   • Guobin Liu

   OriginalPaper 28 March 2016 Pages: 579 - 590

10. Response of Populus euphratica Oliv. sap flow to environmental variables for a desert riparian forest in the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China

    • Wei Li
    • Jianhua Si
    • Xiaoyan Li

    OriginalPaper 29 March 2016 Pages: 591 - 603

11. Comparison of transpiration between different aged black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) trees on the semi-arid Loess Plateau, China

    • Lei Jiao
    • Nan Lu
    • Di Zhang

    OriginalPaper 19 April 2016 Pages: 604 - 617

12. Charcoal production through selective logging leads to degradation of dry woodlands: a case study from Mutomo District, Kenya

    • Geoffrey M. Ndegwa
    • Udo Nehren
    • Dieter Anhuf

    OriginalPaper 30 April 2016 Pages: 618 - 631

13. Ground-active arthropod responses to rainfall-induced dune microhabitats in a desertified steppe ecosystem, China

    • Rentao Liu
    • Fan Zhu
    • Yosef Steinberger

    OriginalPaper 17 February 2016 Pages: 632 - 646