ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Soil moisture decline in China's monsoon loess critical zone: More a result of land-use conversion than climate change.
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- Emergent constraints on the hydrological impacts of land use and land cover change.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Thermo-Mechanical Weathering in Malan Loess Under Thermal Shocks.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The hilly-gully watershed exhibits distinct deep soil moisture characteristics: a comparative study of paired watersheds in the Chinese Loess Plateau.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Vegetation Restoration Increases the Drought Risk on the Loess Plateau.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Dataset of soil hydraulic parameters in the Yellow River Basin based on in situ deep sampling.Scientific data · 2024Article
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Soil moisture (SM) is essential for sustaining services from Earth's critical zone, a thin-living skin spanning from the canopy to groundwater. In the Anthropocene epoch, intensive afforestation has remarkably contributed to global greening and certain service improvements, often at the cost of reduced SM. However, attributing the response of SM in deep soil to such human activities is a great challenge because of the scarcity of long-term observations. Here, we present a 37 y (1985 to 2021) analysis of SM dynamics at two scales across China's monsoon loess critical zone. Site-scale data indicate that land-use conversion from arable cropland to forest/grassland caused an 18% increase in SM deficit over 0 to 18 m depth (
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