
Volume 7, Issue 1 (2015)
Research Articles
Change of lake area in the southeastern part of China’s Badain Jaran Sand Sea and its implications for recharge sources
Zhi ZHANG, ZhiBao DONG, and ChangZhen YAN
Morphology and formation mechanism of sand shadow dunes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
JianHua XIAO, JianJun QU, and ZhengYi YAO
Relating soil moisture and air temperature to evapo¬t¬ranspiration fluxes during inter-storm periods at a Mediterranean experimental site
Antonia LONGOBARDI and Elina KHAERTDINOVA
Water in the Mogao Grottoes, China: where it comes from and how it is driven
HongShou LI, WanFu WANG, and HongTao ZHAN
Long-term effects of gravel―sand mulch on soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the Loess Plateau of northwestern China
Yang QIU, ZhongKui XIE, and YaJun WANG
Phenology of desert plants from an arid gravel plain in eastern United Arab Emirates
Sabitha SAKKIR, Junid N. SHAH, and Abdul J. CHERUTH
The relationship between soil, climate and forest development in the mid-mountain zone of the Sang¬ong River watershed in the northern Tianshan Moun¬tains, China
Li DAI, YiXing FENG, and GePing LUO
A preliminary study of water use strategy of desert plants in Dunhuang, China
YongQin CUI, JianYing MA, and Wei SUN
Species composition and diversity, and carbon stock in a dune ecosystem in the Horqin Sandy Land of northern China
FeiLong HU, WenKai SHOU, Bo LIU, and ZhiMin LIU
Growth and physiological responses of Agriophyllum squarrosum to sand burial stress
Jin LI, Hao QU, and HaLin ZHAO
Responses of microbial activities and soil physical-chemical properties to the successional process of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang
BingChang ZHANG,; XiaoBing ZHOU; and YuanMing ZHANG
Effects of shrub presence and shrub species on ground beetle assemblages (Carabidae, Curculionidae and Tenebrionidae) in a sandy desert, northwestern China
JiLiang LIU, WenZhi ZHAO, and FengRui LI
A new parallel framework of distributed SWAT calibration
Qiang LI, Xi CHEN, and Yi LUO