Wei Wei

TL;DR: In this paper, the lessons and experiences regarding soil and water conservation in the Loess Plateau in the past decades are analyzed first, and then urgent problems are elaborated, such as the contradiction between land resource and human population, shortage of water both in amount and tempospatial distribution for vegetation growth, weak awareness of the problems of soil conservation by local officials, and poor public participation in soil and Water conservation.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed runoff and soil loss in relation to land use and rainfall regimes in a loess hilly area of China, based on 14 years of field measurements and K-means clustering, 131 rainfall events were classified into three rainfall regimes.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effects of planting trees and shrubs, land-use conversions from croplands to pastures and native grasslands on soil water dynamics and water stresses by using long-term field measurements from 1986 to 1999 in the semi-arid loess hilly area.

TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamics of soil moisture were quantified to evaluate the effect of land use on soil moisture at a depth of 2 m, and the gravimetric soil moisture content was measured in the soil layer between 0 and 8 m for five land use types in the Longtan catchment of the western Loess plateau.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used literature synthesis and quantitative analysis to identify the major benefits and issues of terracing and found that terracing can improve ecosystem services (ESs) in tropical and subtropical rainforests, deserts, and arid and semiarid mountains across the globe.