Guodong Ding

TL;DR: In this paper, Wang et al. investigated how wind erosion and key ecosystem services changed concurrently and what major biophysical and socioeconomic factors were responsible for these changes in a dryland area of China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared soil properties at depths of 0-5, 5-10, and 10-20 cm as affected by Caragana korshinskii shelterbelts across a chronosequence of soil undergoing restoration for 7, 11, and 26 years, as well as reference grasslands in Ningxia, NW China.

TL;DR: Fractal dimension proves to be a sensitive and useful index for quantifying changes in soil properties that additionally implies desertification and is essential to provide a firm basis for future policy-making on optimal solutions regarding desertification control and assessment, as well as degraded ecosystem restoration in arid and semiarid regions.

TL;DR: In this article, Wang et al. quantified the spatiotemporal patterns of land use/cover changes (LUCCs), soil wind erosion modulus (SWEM), and essential ecosystem services throughout 2000-2015 by utilizing field investigations, remotely sensed data, meteorological data, and modeling.

TL;DR: It is found that all sizes of straw checkerboard effectively reduced the wind speed near the surface and formed a protected area, with the best protective effect achieved for a one-meter board.