China has responded to a national land-system sustainability emergency via an integrated
portfolio of large-scale programmes. Here we review 16 sustainability programmes, which …

Soil erosion coupled with high runoff poses a significant threat to the topsoil fertility,
declining its productivity and raising major environmental and socio-economic issues such …

Conservation management practices–including agroforestry, cover cropping, no-till, reduced
tillage, and residue return–have been applied for decades to control surface runoff and soil …

Vegetation restoration over degraded drylands has considerable climate, carbon and
ecosystem benefits, yet its water impacts remain contentious. Previous studies suggest that …

Soil erosion exhibited significant decrease due to the implementation of considerable soil
and water conservation practices on the Loess Plateau, and further induced less sediment …

Ecological geology is an emerging interdisciplinary subject, studying the interaction,
coordination and balance between geological, ecological and disaster environments driven …

Surface runoff is considered as an important pathway that transport of plastic waste from
terrestrial environment into the aquatic environment but the process is still poorly …

In the loess plateau, due to the vegetation recovery has achieved preliminary results, while it
is controversial whether the vegetation cover can be increased unrestrictedly for a long time …

Abstract Knowledge of the soil organic carbon components and enzyme activities during
long‐term natural vegetation restoration is essential for managing the restoration of …

Quantitative analyses of runoff and erosion under specific climatic (precipitation
characteristics) and underlying surface conditions (slope, antecedent soil moisture) with …