Demands for water services from forested watersheds have dramatically increased since the
1950s and the trend continues as global environmental change intensifies in the 21st …

Abstract The Loess Plateau of China is a region with one of the most severe cases of soil
erosion in the world. Since the 1950s, there has been afforestation measure to control soil …

Understanding the interaction between the hydrological cycle and vegetation management
strategies, such as thinning, is essential to improve watershed management and support …

Historically, forest thinning in Japan was conducted to obtain high-quality timber from
plantations. Today, in contrast, thinning is also motivated by forest water balance and …

Abstract The potential of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) on expanding the horizon of
forest ecology has been realized, but this does not mean that the related interdisciplinary …

Abstract Afforestation on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) has been extensively
implemented by the central government over the past decades to control soil erosion. The …

Large-scale forest disturbances including mountain pine beetle infestation and forest fires
have generated overstocked lodgepole pine stands in the interior of British Columbia. A …

Evapotranspiration (ET) partitioning is crucial for understanding the impacts of
ecophysiological and physical processes on water balance and plant water use strategy …

Soil water is the limiting factor that determines ecosystem development in arid and semi-arid
regions. Thus, determining the relationships between soil water and vegetation can inform …

Background Afforestation is a common and effective approach used for the restoration of
degraded ecosystems worldwide. In China, Robinia pseudoacacia (RP) is among the main …