Haibing Xiao

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the environmental effects of a straw checkerboard through field experimental observation and found that the straw checkboard enhanced the capacity of dune systems to entrap dust deposition, leading to the accumulation of soil organic matter and nutrients and to the development of soil formation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the recovery of soil properties and processes after sand burial in the Tengger Desert, northern China, was documented at five different-aged revegetated sites (1956, 1964, 1973, 1982, and 1991) and at a reference site with native vegetation, which had never been damaged by sand burial and was enclosed for grazing.

TL;DR: In this article, the chemical characteristics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in soils that experience erosion and deposition are key to the biogeochemical cycle of carbon on the earth's surface.

TL;DR: The role of soil erosion in global C cycle remains a topic of debate as discussed by the authors, especially for the mineralization and sequestration of eroded organic carbon upon erosion, transport and deposition.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of changes in vegetation coverage on soil erosion control in the red soil hilly region of China and found that vegetation coverage significantly and positively affected soil loss.