Proglacial margins form when glaciers retreat and create zones with distinctive ecological,
geomorphological and hydrological properties in Alpine environments. There is extensive …

Assessment of soil quality in different vegetation types of wetland ecosystems is essential for
soil functioning, such as nutrient cycling and vegetation growth, particularly the maintenance …

Abstract The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau—known as the roof of the world and the water tower
of Asia—is facing serious degradation of its ecosystems, with alpine meadows being …

The Selinco region is a highland grassland ecosystem with a unique lake system and
diverse flora and fauna. However, it is highly vulnerable to degradation due to its high …

Grazing management is widely used to control grassland degradation in Inner Mongolia.
However, the correlation between the soil physical properties, root traits, and infiltration …

In many areas of the world, the surface of the earth is changing rapidly. This can affect the
partitioning of precipitation into overland flow (OF) and infiltration. OF can reach the stream …

In karst areas, the distribution of stony soils results from bedrock weathering over time,
influencing the development of preferential flow to some extent. In this study, field dye …

Aims The stability of hillslopes is an essential ecosystem service, especially in alpine
regions with soils prone to erosion. One key variable controlling hillslope stability is soil …

The near soil surface characteristics of plant communities probably change considerably
with seasonal water-level fluctuations, thus induced corresponding variations in soil …

The preferential flow path development is potentially the result of spatial variations in soil
properties with soil depth. However, visualizing the evolution of the preferential flow path …