Hydrological and water cycle processes of inland river basins in the arid region of Northwest China Yaning ChenBaofu LiGonghuan Fang OriginalPaper Open access 16 April 2019 Pages: 161 - 179
Spatial and temporal patterns of drought in Zambia Brigadier LibandaMie ZhengChilekana Ngonga OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 180 - 191
Abrupt temperature change and a warming hiatus from 1951 to 2014 in Inner Mongolia, China Long MaHongyu LiLongteng Liang OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 192 - 207
An experimental study on the influences of water erosion on wind erosion in arid and semi-arid regions Huimin YangXueyong ZouPeijun Shi OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 208 - 216
Fluvial sediments in the Alagxa Plateau as a dust source: iron mineralogical and geochemical evidence Youjun WangJia JiaDunsheng Xia OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 217 - 227
Spatial distribution of water-active soil layer along the south-north transect in the Loess Plateau of China Chunlei ZhaoMing’an ShaoYuanjun Zhu OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 228 - 240
Distribution of soil aggregates and organic carbon in deep soil under long-term conservation tillage with residual retention in dryland Bisheng WangLili GaoXueping Wu OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 241 - 254
Impact of air drought on photosynthesis efficiency of the Siberian crabapple (Malus baccata L. Borkh.) in the forest-steppe zone of Transbaikalia, Russia Alexandr RudikovskiiElena RudikovskayaLyubov Dudareva OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 255 - 266
Effects of spring fire and slope on the aboveground biomass, and organic C and N dynamics in a semi-arid grassland of northern China Xiang ZhaoShuya HuChanghui Wang OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 267 - 279
Is bi-seasonal germination an optimal choice for an ephemeral plant living in a cold desert? Shanlin YangXiang ShiWei Pang OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 280 - 291
Exogenously applied glycinebetaine induced alteration in some key physio-biochemical attributes and plant anatomical features in water stressed oat (Avena sativa L.) plants Anum ShehzadiNudrat A. AkramMuhammad Ashraf OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 292 - 305
Conversion of cropland into agroforestry land versus naturally-restored grassland alters soil macro-faunal diversity and trophic structure in the semi-arid agro-pasture zone of northern China Rentao LiuYosef SteinbergerYaxi Luo OriginalPaper 16 April 2019 Pages: 306 - 317
Erratum to: Interaction between climate and management on beta diversity components of vegetation in relation to soil properties in arid and semi-arid oak forests, Iran Mehdi HeydariFatemeh AazamiBernard Prévosto Erratum 04 January 2019 Pages: 318 - 318