Abstract China's Loess Plateau is the largest loess deposit in the world in terms of both
depth and area. Water storage in soils of the Plateau has direct impacts on food security …

Abstract Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) have been established initially in natural
environments to monitor CZ processes. A new generation of CZOs has been extended to …

Black soils (Mollisols) are inherently productive and fertile but are deteriorating due to long-
term intensive cultivation. Understanding the changes in soil physical and hydraulic …

In the current study, the use of regression-kriging (RK), artificial neural networks (ANN),
support vector machines (SVM), and random forest (RF) methods from machine learning …

Heavy metal contamination in soils can pose severe challenges to the safety of geotechnical
engineering projects. Loess, which is widely distributed in Northwest China, is a preferred …

The fractal characteristics of soil grain-size in thick loess profile are closely related to its
physical and hydrological characteristics. To reveal the relationship between loess grain …

Loess has been widely used in site remediation engineering projects in the Chinese Loess
Plateau. With the interaction between CaCl 2 solution and cutoff wall, how does its …

Groundwater recharge reduces due to high transpiration from shallow-rooted to deep-rooted
afforestation. However, reaching a steady state in recharge process is challenging and no …

Plastic film mulching (PFM) can increase or stabilize crop yields worldwide when applied to
agricultural planting systems, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Although the adverse …

Soil erosion, the most widespread form of soil degradation worldwide, has been
acknowledged to cause onsite soil physical deterioration. However, the off-site impact of …