Hydrogeomorphic ecosystem responses to natural and anthropogenic changes in the Loess Plateau of China

B Fu, S Wang, Y Liu, J Liu, W Liang… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
China's Loess Plateau is both the largest and deepest loess deposit in the world, and it has
long been one of the most severely eroded areas on Earth. Since the 1970s, numerous soil …

Impacts of forest restoration on water yield: A systematic review

S Filoso, MO Bezerra, KCB Weiss, MA Palmer - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Enhancing water provision services is a common target in forest restoration
projects worldwide due to growing concerns over freshwater scarcity. However, whether or …

Revegetation in China's Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

X Feng, B Fu, S Piao, S Wang, P Ciais, Z Zeng… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Revegetation of degraded ecosystems provides opportunities for carbon sequestration and
bioenergy production,. However, vegetation expansion in water-limited areas creates …

Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes

S Wang, B Fu, S Piao, Y Lü, P Ciais, X Feng… - Nature Geoscience, 2016 - nature.com
The erosion, transport and redeposition of sediments shape the Earth's surface, and affect
the structure and function of ecosystems and society,. The Yellow River was once the world's …

Revegetation does not decrease water yield in the Loess Plateau of China

B Zhang, L Tian, Y Yang, X He - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation restoration over degraded drylands has considerable climate, carbon and
ecosystem benefits, yet its water impacts remain contentious. Previous studies suggest that …

A global review on hydrological responses to forest change across multiple spatial scales: Importance of scale, climate, forest type and hydrological regime

M Zhang, N Liu, R Harper, Q Li, K Liu, X Wei, D Ning… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite extensive studies on hydrological responses to forest cover change in small
watersheds, the hydrological responses to forest change and associated mechanisms …

Assessing the effects of China's three-north shelter forest program over 40 years

J Zhai, L Wang, Y Liu, C Wang, X Mao - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests provide vital ecosystem services such as soil and water conservation, climate
regulation, and carbon storage. Large-scale afforestation programs are being attempted in …

Evaluation of the impacts of human activities on propagation from meteorological drought to hydrological drought in the Weihe River Basin, China

T Zhang, X Su, G Zhang, H Wu, G Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship among different types of drought is crucial for drought
mitigation and early warnings. Much attention has been recently focused on the propagation …

The role of climate change and vegetation greening on evapotranspiration variation in the Yellow River Basin, China

F Zhao, S Ma, Y Wu, L Qiu, W Wang, Y Lian… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Actual evapotranspiration (ET) plays a key role in the water cycle and energy balance, and it
is also sensitive to climate and land use changes due to its explicit link with multiple land …

Understanding interactions among climate, water, and vegetation with the Budyko framework

G Gan, Y Liu, G Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Budyko models provide a transparent framework for analyzing climate-catchment
interactions and therefore have been widely used to quantify the role of vegetation …