1. Lake surface area method to define minimum ecological lake level from level-area-storage curves

   • SongHao Shang

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 133 - 142

2. Effects of deficit irrigation with saline water on spring wheat growth and yield in arid Northwest China

   • Jing Jiang
   • ZaiLin Huo
   • ChaoBo Zhang

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 143 - 154

3. Ammonia emissions from soil under sheep grazing in inner mongolian grasslands of China

   • YunHai Zhang
   • NianPeng He
   • XingGuo Han

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 155 - 165

4. Irrigation erosion of irrigated soils in the foothills of southern Kazakhstan

   • Abdulla S. Saparov
   • Enadiy K. Mirzakeev
   • Jilili Abuduwaili

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 166 - 171

5. Biological soil crust distribution in Artemisia ordosica communities along a grazing pressure gradient in Mu Us Sandy Land, Northern China

   • JunHong Zhang
   • Bo Wu
   • Ji He

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 172 - 179

6. Migration and accumulation of heavy metals in disturbed landscapes in developing ore deposits, East Kazakhstan

   • Gulzhan Beiseyeva
   • Jilili Abuduwali

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 180 - 187

7. Climate effects on an inland alpine lake in Xinjiang, China over the past 40 years

   • HuiXia Chai
   • WeiMing Cheng
   • HaiJiang Liu

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 188 - 198

8. Near-surface sand-dust horizontal flux in Tazhong—the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert

   • XingHua Yang
   • Qing He
   • XinChun Liu

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 199 - 206

9. Effect of vegetation on soil water retention and storage in a semi-arid alpine forest catchment

   • Chao Wang
   • ChuanYan Zhao
   • HuanHua Peng

   OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 207 - 219

10. Responses of root growth of Alhagi sparsifolia Shap. (Fabaceae) to different simulated groundwater depths in the southern fringe of the Taklimakan Desert, China

    • FanJiang Zeng
    • Cong Song
    • DaLi Guo

    OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 220 - 232

11. Effects of deficit irrigation on daily and seasonal variations of trunk sap flow and its growth in Calligonum arborescens

    • LiShan Shan
    • Yi Li
    • XiMing Zhang

    OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 233 - 243

12. Characteristics of mineral elements in shoots of three annual halophytes in a saline desert, Northern Xinjiang

    • Ke Zhang
    • ChunJian Li
    • ChangYan Tian

    OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 244 - 254

13. Heterosis for water uptake by maize (Zea mays L.) roots under water deficit: responses at cellular, single-root and whole-root system levels

    • XiaoFang Liu
    • SuiQi Zhang
    • Lun Shan

    OriginalPaper 05 March 2013 Pages: 255 - 265