Effects of long-term afforestation and natural grassland recovery on soil properties and quality in Loess Plateau (China)

Impact of land use changes on soil quality and species diversity in the Vindhyan dry tropical region of India

(2020) Rajani Srivastava et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Impact of forest degradation and reforestation with Alnus and Quercus species on soil quality and function in northern Iran

(2020) Razie Sanji et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Biochar addition combined with daily fertigation improves overall soil quality and enhances water-fertilizer productivity of cucumber in alkaline soils of a semi-arid region

(2020) Xu Zhang et al.   GEODERMA

Do tree plantations or cultivated fields have the same ability to maintain soil quality as natural forests?

(2020) Mehrdad Zarafshar et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Soil and water threats in a changing environment

(2020) Paulo Pereira et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Soil particle density as affected by soil texture and soil organic matter: 2. Predicting the effect of the mineral composition of particle-size fractions

(2020) Joerg Ruehlmann et al.   GEODERMA

Clay content modulates differences in bacterial community structure in soil aggregates of different size

(2020) Danh Biesgen et al.   GEODERMA

Determinations of environmental factors on interactive soil properties across different land-use types on the Loess Plateau, China

(2020) Siqi Yang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Loess Plateau: from degradation to restoration

(2020) Yang Yu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Depth Distribution of Bulk and Aggregate-Associated Manganese Oxides Mediated by Soil Chemical Properties in a Long-Term Fertilized Paddy Soil

(2020) Christian Kofi Anthonio et al.   Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Changes in soil phosphorus and its influencing factors following afforestation in northern China

(2019) Xiankun Li et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Assessing the impacts of land use and land cover changes on soil functions using landscape function analysis and soil quality indicators in semi-arid natural ecosystems

(2019) Mojdeh Safaei et al.   CATENA

Does the use of cowpea in rotation with a vegetable crop improve soil quality and crop yield and quality? A field study in SE Spain

(2019) Virginia Sánchez-Navarro et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

A combined grazing and fire management may reverse woody shrub encroachment in desert grasslands

(2019) Guan Wang et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Effects of Applying Liquid Swine Manure on Soil Quality and Yield Production in Tropical Soybean Crops (Paraná, Brazil)

(2019) Valdemir Antoneli et al.   Sustainability

Meta-analysis demonstrating that moderate grazing can improve the soil quality across China's grassland ecosystems

(2019) Tianyu Zhan et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

A spatial landscape scale approach for estimating erosion, water quantity, and quality in response to South Dakota grassland conversion

(2019) Hector M. Menendez et al.   NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING

The Effect of Land-Use Change on Urban Grassland Soil Quality (Southern Poland)

(2019) Miłosz Podwika et al.  

Effect of forest land use change on carbohydrates, physical soil quality and carbon stocks in Moroccan cedar area

(2019) Hafida Zaher et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of soil-incorporated plant litter morphological characteristics on the soil detachment process in grassland on the Loess Plateau of China

(2019) Jia-Xin Liu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The effects of varied soil properties induced by natural grassland succession on the process of soil detachment

(2018) Bing Wang et al.   CATENA

Evaluating the net value of ecosystem services to support ecological engineering: Framework and a case study of the Beijing Plains afforestation project

(2018) Zhongqi Yu et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Soil moisture decline following the plantation of Robinia pseudoacacia forests: Evidence from the Loess Plateau

(2018) Haibin Liang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Agricultural implications of providing soil-based constraints on urban expansion: Land use forecasts to 2050

(2018) Samuel J. Smidt et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Soil quality assessment under different land uses in an alpine grassland

(2018) Pujia Yu et al.   CATENA

Physicochemical and microbiological assessment of soil quality on a chronosequence of a mine reclamation site

(2018) J. Li et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Influence of vegetation restoration on soil physical properties in the Loess Plateau, China

(2018) Chaojun Gu et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

The enhancing effect of afforestation over secondary succession on soil quality under semiarid climate conditions

(2018) Jeroen H.T. Zethof et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Effects of vegetation restoration on soil quality in degraded karst landscapes of southwest China

(2018) Yaohua Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Shelter, clothing, and fuel: Often overlooked links between soils, ecosystem services, and human health

(2018) Eric C. Brevik et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Thirty-four years of no-tillage and cover crops improve soil quality and increase cotton yield in Alfisols, Southeastern USA

(2018) Amin Nouri et al.   GEODERMA

Seasonality, altitude and human activities control soil quality in a national park surrounded by an urban area

(2018) Valeria Memoli et al.   GEODERMA

Ranking thirteen tree species based on their impact on soil physiochemical properties, soil fertility, and carbon sequestration in Northeastern China

(2017) Wenjie Wang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Soil C:N:P stoichiometry in plantations of N-fixing black locust and indigenous pine, and secondary oak forests in Northwest China

(2017) Yang Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Indicator-Based Assessment for Soil Resource Management in the Wrocław Larger Urban Zone of Poland

(2017) Szymon Szewrański et al.   POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Precipitation gradient determines the tradeoff between soil moisture and soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and species richness in the Loess Plateau, China

(2017) Cong Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Evaluation of soil structure and physical properties influenced by weather conditions during autumn-winter-spring season

(2017) Maja Bryk et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Soil quality assessment in different climate zones of China’s Wenchuan earthquake affected region

(2017) Yongming Lin et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Composted sewage sludge and steel mill slag as potential amendments for urban soils involved in afforestation programs

(2017) Iraê Amaral Guerrini et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Changes in land use alter soil quality and aggregate stability in the highlands of northern Ethiopia

(2017) Yoseph T. Delelegn et al.   Scientific Reports

Understanding the effect of three decades of land use change on soil quality and biomass productivity in a Mediterranean landscape in Chile

(2016) Ángela Hernández et al.   CATENA

Distribution of soil carbon and nitrogen in two typical forests in the semiarid region of the Loess Plateau, China

(2016) Bian-Lan Song et al.   CATENA

Post-fire recovery of herbaceous species composition and diversity, and soil quality indicators one year after wildfire in a semi-arid oak woodland

(2016) Mehdi Heydari et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

The effect of Robinia pseudoacacia afforestation on soil and vegetation properties in the Loess Plateau (China): A chronosequence approach

(2016) Meng Kou et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatial variations and impact factors of soil water content in typical natural and artificial grasslands: a case study in the Loess Plateau of China

(2016) Xiao Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Preface

(2016) Paulo Pereira et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Long-term Effects of Pine Plantations on Soil Quality in Southern Spain

(2016) Francisco J. Martín-Peinado et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Afforestation Drives Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Changes in China

(2016) Lei Deng et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

A global meta-analysis of soil phosphorus dynamics after afforestation

(2016) Qi Deng et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Degradation of soil physicochemical quality by ephemeral gully erosion on sloping cropland of the hilly Loess Plateau, China

(2016) Mingxiang Xu et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Spatial Variations of Soil Moisture under Caragana korshinskii Kom. from Different Precipitation Zones: Field Based Analysis in the Loess Plateau, China

(2016) Yuanxin Liu et al.   Forests

Effects of different vegetation restoration on soil water storage and water balance in the Chinese Loess Plateau

(2015) Shengqi Jian et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Reducing soil erosion by improving community functional diversity in semi-arid grasslands

(2015) Huoxing Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stocks in hybrid poplar buffers, herbaceous buffers and natural woodlots in the riparian zone on agricultural land

(2015) Julien Fortier et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Retrieval of grassland plant coverage on the Tibetan Plateau based on a multi-scale, multi-sensor and multi-method approach

(2015) Lukas W. Lehnert et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Co-evolution of soil and water conservation policy and human–environment linkages in the Yellow River Basin since 1949

(2015) Fei Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Short-term transport of glyphosate with erosion in Chinese loess soil — A flume experiment

(2015) Xiaomei Yang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Response of temporal variation of soil moisture to vegetation restoration in semi-arid Loess Plateau, China

(2014) Lei Yang et al.   CATENA

Response of tree regeneration and understory plant species diversity to stand density in mature Pinus tabulaeformis plantations in the hilly area of the Loess Plateau, China

(2014) Yunming Chen et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Study on the mobility and bioavailability of PTEs in soils from Urban Forest Parks in Sofia, Bulgaria

(2014) Vania Doichinova et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION

Using Cesium-137 to investigate soil quality under conservation tillage on steep lands

(2014) Y. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

Successional changes in soil stoichiometry after land abandonment in Loess Plateau, China

(2013) Feng Jiao et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Revegetation as an efficient means of increasing soil aggregate stability on the Loess Plateau (China)

(2013) Shao-Shan An et al.   GEODERMA

Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Moisture and the Scale Variability of Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study in the Loess Plateau of China

(2013) Qiang Feng et al.   Water

Soil Quality Indicators in Relation to Land Use and Topography in a Small Catchment on the Loess Plateau of China

(2012) X. Zhao et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Soil Seed Banks and Forest Succession Direction Reflect Soil Quality in Ziwuling Mountain, Loess Plateau, China

(2011) Jimin Cheng et al.   CLEAN-Soil Air Water

Assessing the soil erosion control service of ecosystems change in the Loess Plateau of China

(2011) Bojie Fu et al.   Ecological Complexity

Effect of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) on soil chemical and microbiological properties in the eroded hilly area of China’s Loess Plateau

(2011) Bing Wang et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Long-term-fertilization effects on soil organic carbon, physical properties, and wheat yield of a loess soil

(2011) Xueyun Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Effects of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) on soil properties in the loessial gully region of the Loess Plateau, China

(2010) Liping Qiu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effects of nitrogen-fixing and non-nitrogen-fixing tree species on soil properties and nitrogen transformation during forest restoration in southern China

(2010) Faming Wang et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Effects of vegetation restoration and slope positions on soil aggregation and soil carbon accumulation on heavily eroded tropical land of Southern China

(2009) Xinyi Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Soil quality indices for evaluation of long-term land use and soil management practices in semi-arid sub-tropical India

(2008) R. E. Masto et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT