1. Evaluation of an erosion-sediment transport model for a hillslope using laboratory flume data

   • Anya Catherine C. Arguelles
   • Minjae Jung
   • Seonhwa Hong

   OriginalPaper 09 May 2014 Pages: 647 - 655

2. Sensitivity and vulnerability of water resources in the arid Shiyang River Basin of Northwest China

   • Long Wan
   • Jun Xia
   • LiKe Ning

   OriginalPaper 31 May 2014 Pages: 656 - 667

3. Ambient TSP concentration and dustfall variation in Urumqi, China

   • XiaoXiao Zhang
   • Xi Chen
   • HuaWei Pi

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2014 Pages: 668 - 677

4. Hydrological response to land use and land cover changes in a sub-watershed of West Liaohe River Basin, China

   • XiaoLi Yang
   • LiLiang Ren
   • ShanHu Jiang

   OriginalPaper 19 May 2014 Pages: 678 - 689

5. Soil substrate as a cascade of capillary barriers for conserving water in a desert environment: lessons learned from arid nature

   • Ali Al-Maktoumi
   • Said Al-Ismaily
   • Mansour Al-Hadabi

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2014 Pages: 690 - 703

6. Land surface temperature retrieval for arid regions based on Landsat-8 TIRS data: a case study in Shihezi, Northwest China

   • Lei Yang
   • YunGang Cao
   • XiuChun Yang

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2014 Pages: 704 - 716

7. Fluxes of methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide in an alpine wetland and an alpine grassland of the Tianshan Mountains, China

   • GuiXiang He
   • KaiHui Li
   • YuKun Hu

   OriginalPaper 29 July 2014 Pages: 717 - 724

8. Carbon fixation and its influence factors of biological soil crusts in a revegetated area of the Tengger Desert, northern China

   • Lei Huang
   • ZhiShan Zhang
   • XinRong Li

   OriginalPaper 10 June 2014 Pages: 725 - 734

9. Effects of biological soil crusts and drought on emergence and survival of a Patagonian perennial grass in the Monte of Argentina

   • Flavia Alejandra Funk
   • Alejandro Loydi
   • Guadalupe Peter

   OriginalPaper 06 January 2014 Pages: 735 - 741

10. Effects of artificially cultivated biological soil crusts on soil nutrients and biological activities in the Loess Plateau

    • YanMin Zhao
    • QingKe Zhu
    • Huan Ma

    OriginalPaper 08 May 2014 Pages: 742 - 752

11. Relations between soil heterogeneity and common reed (Phragmites australis Trin. ex Steud.) colonization in Keriya River Basin, Xinjiang of China

    • Lu Gong
    • ChangJun Li
    • Tashpolat Tiyip

    OriginalPaper 08 May 2014 Pages: 753 - 761

12. Ecophysiological aspects in 105 plants species of saline and arid environments in Tunisia

    • Abdallah Atia
    • Mokded Rabhi
    • Abderrazak Smaoui

    OriginalPaper 09 May 2014 Pages: 762 - 770

13. Response of stomatal conductance of two tree species to vapor pressure deficit in three climate zones

    • Jing Li
    • XiaoMing Li

    OriginalPaper 25 April 2014 Pages: 771 - 781