Climate, lithology, soil and especially, intense land use/cover changes, make SE Spain very
vulnerable to runoff generation and water erosion leading to loss of nutrients and organic …

Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem
services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure …

Temporal stability (TS) of soil water content (SWC) has been observed throughout a wide
range of spatial and temporal scales. Yet, the evidence with respect to the controlling factors …

Experiments suggest that biodiversity enhances the ability of ecosystems to maintain
multiple functions, such as carbon storage, productivity, and the buildup of nutrient pools …

The crossing of aridity thresholds triggers abrupt changes in multiple functional and
structural ecosystem attributes across global drylands. While we understand the …

The knowledge of soil moisture spatial variability is an important issue for hydrological and
climatic studies. This paper investigates the soil moisture spatial pattern obtained from spot …

The soil water content is recognized as one of many runoff controlling factors in semiarid
environments. A simple, physically based distributed model has been developed to study …

Severe soil and water loss has lead to widespread land degradation in China's loess
plateau. During the past decades, a great deal of effort was made on vegetation restoration …

Theoretical models predict that the relative importance of facilitation and competition may
vary inversely across gradients of abiotic stress. However, these predictions have not been …

Hydraulic connectivity on hillslopes and the existence of preferred soil moisture states in a
catchment have important controls on runoff generation. In this study we investigate the …