Guanghui Zhang

TL;DR: It was found that the organic matter content was relatively low in the restored soils, compared with not-restored land, and this may be caused by the high enzyme activity per unit of organic carbon in the soils of the study area which tends to help decompose and therefore decrease theorganic matter in soil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of age of abandoned farmland under natural vegetation restoration on soil detachment by overland flow and soil resistance to erosion as reflected by soil erodibility and critical shear stress were evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, a new functional relationship between a dimensionless parameter involving stream power and settling velocity and the volumetric concentration at the transport limit was developed using a set of flume experiments with slope up to 46.6%, unit discharge up to 50 cm 2 ·s −1, median particle size of 0.326 mm, and sediment concentration up to 1,140 kg · m −3.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of vegetation growth on soil resistance to flowing water erosion on steep gully slopes, and quantify the main potential influencing factors on the Loess Plateau.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how grassland has a significant effect on the process of soil detachment by overland flow and showed that fibrous root systems are significantly more effective at reducing soil erosion than tap root systems.