Water is a crucial factor controlling the fate and processing of soil organics. Water commonly
flows through the vadose zone via preferential flow pathways, resulting in nonuniform and …

Insects are the largest and most diverse group of living organisms on Earth, playing a critical
but underestimated role as agents of geomorphic change. Burrowing insects create micro …

Ants are abundant in most of the world's terrestrial environments. They are energetic, strong
for their size, numerous, and socially cooperative. They play many geomorphologically …

The burrowing activities of earthworms can change the soil macropore structure in terrestrial
ecosystems. Studying the burrows structure and their effects on soil water movement may be …

Water provision is an important ecological function of alpine meadows on the Tibetan
Plateau. Quantitative assessment of the effects of vegetation change induced by vegetation …

As an important inherent condition for an eroded landform and fragile ecosystem, the
erodible loess in China's Loess Plateau is a clastic and predominantly silt-sized sediment …

Soil cracks significantly affect the preferential flow, and various uncertainties are associated
with the effect of soil cracks on preferential flow in karst areas in Southwest China. This study …

Eusocial insects have evolved diverse particle‐use behaviors. A previous study reported
that red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren, deposited soil particles on substances …

Accurate binary images based on dye-tracing experiments are fundamental for
understanding preferential flow in soil. Nevertheless, general image-processing software …

Areas with shallow groundwater and check dams have relatively abundant water resources
compared to tablelands with deep loess layers on the Loess Plateau in China, but little …