1. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of sandy deposits from Gulang county at the southern margin of the Tengger Desert, China

   • Jun Peng
   • Zhibao Dong
   • Fengqing Han

   OriginalPaper 21 September 2015 Pages: 1 - 12

2. Growth of the Sayram Lake and retreat of its water-supplying glaciers in the Tianshan Mountains from 1972 to 2011

   • Weiming Cheng
   • Nan Wang
   • Min Zhao

   OriginalPaper 12 November 2015 Pages: 13 - 22

3. Spatial patterns of ecosystem vulnerability changes during 2001–2011 in the three-river source region of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

   • Bing Guo
   • Yi Zhou
   • Lin Jiang

   OriginalPaper 11 August 2015 Pages: 23 - 35

4. Responses of gross primary productivity to different sizes of precipitation events in a temperate grassland ecosystem in Inner Mongolia, China

   • Qun Guo
   • Shenggong Li
   • Wenming Bai

   OriginalPaper 21 September 2015 Pages: 36 - 46

5. Response of soil water dynamics to precipitation years under different vegetation types on the northern Loess Plateau, China

   • Bingxia Liu
   • Ming’an Shao

   OriginalPaper 12 November 2015 Pages: 47 - 59

6. Tree-ring-based reconstruction of temperature variability (1445–2011) for the upper reaches of the Heihe River Basin, Northwest China

   • Yamin Wang
   • Qi Feng
   • Xingcheng Kang

   OriginalPaper 12 November 2015 Pages: 60 - 76

7. Soil organic matter amendments in date palm groves of the Middle Eastern and North African region: a mini-review

   • Rawan Mlih
   • Roland Bol
   • Nadhem Brahim

   OriginalPaper 22 August 2015 Pages: 77 - 92

8. Rangelands of Central Asia: challenges and opportunities

   • Alisher Mirzabaev
   • Mohamed Ahmed
   • Mounir Louhaichi

   OriginalPaper 21 September 2015 Pages: 93 - 108

9. Investigating natural drivers of vegetation coverage variation using MODIS imagery in Qinghai, China

   • Lei Zhou
   • Aifeng Lyu

   OriginalPaper 19 August 2015 Pages: 109 - 124

10. Vulnerability to drought-induced cavitation in shoots of two typical shrubs in the southern Mu Us Sandy Land, China

    • Yangyang Li
    • Weiyue Chen
    • Hui Shi

    OriginalPaper 07 September 2015 Pages: 125 - 137

11. Above- and below-ground biomass and carbon stocks of different tree plantations in central Iran

    • Hormoz Sohrabi
    • Siavash Bakhtiarvand-Bakhtiari
    • Kourosh Ahmadi

    OriginalPaper 12 November 2015 Pages: 138 - 145

12. Comparison of three evapotranspiration models with eddy covariance measurements for a Populus euphratica Oliv. forest in an arid region of northwestern China

    • Guanlong Gao
    • Xiaoyou Zhang
    • Bing Liu

    OriginalPaper 30 August 2015 Pages: 146 - 156