Drylands are important ecosystems that are facing severe challenges under a changing
climate. The relationships between soil moisture and vegetation have garnered international …

Natural and planted grasslands play a very important role in agriculture as source of various
ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration and biodiversity, and are responsible …

Abstract The Mongolian Plateau hosts two different governments: the Mongolian People's
Republic and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a provincial-level government of the …

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key hydrologic variable linking the Earth's water, carbon and
energy cycles. At large spatial scales, remote sensing-based (RS) models are often used to …

Soil hydrological processes are extremely complex in high-altitude regions and are
recognized to have positive effects on soil quality, nutrient cycling, herbage yield, and runoff …

Study region Mixed-and tall-grass prairies in the southern Great Plains, USA Study focus
Estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) are widely available from remote sensing and …

Understanding temporal and spatial characteristics of regional climate is essential for
decision making in water resource management. Established statistical and GIS techniques …

Lateral terrestrial water flow is usually not considered in regional climate modeling. This
study focuses on the impact of increased hydrological model complexity for the description …

Soil water is an important driving force of the ecosystems, especially in the semiarid hill and
gully region of the northwestern Loess Plateau in China. The mechanism of soil water …

Energy flux is a key component and driving factor in ecosystem processes and functions.
Using 2015 datasets of eddy covariance, vegetation and meteorological measurements at …