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TL;DR: In the semi-humid to arid loess plateau areas of North China, water is the limiting factor for rain-fed crop yields and conservation tillage has been proposed to improve soil and water conservation in these areas as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Comparatively higher enzyme activities were observed in the stages with vigorous vegetative growth of winter wheat than in stages with productive growth, indicating that seasonal fluctuations did not obscure effects associated with soil tillage practices and enzyme activities could reflect the effects of conversion of soil Tillage practices on soil quality.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of different soil management practices on the water balance, precipitation use efficiency (PUE), and crop yield (i.e. winter wheat and peanut) on a loess soil near Luoyang (east edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau, Henan Province, China).

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of rainfall intensity and soil surface cover on losses of sediment and the selective enrichment of soil organic carbon (SOC) in the sediment by surface runoff was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of different soil management practices on runoff sediment and the temporal change of runoff discharge rate and sediment concentration under different initial soil moisture conditions (i.e. initially dry soil surface, and wet surface) and rainfall intensity (85 and 170 mm h �1 ) in the Chinese Loess Plateau were investigated.