1. Change of lake area in the southeastern part of China’s Badain Jaran Sand Sea and its implications for recharge sources

   • Zhi Zhang
   • ZhiBao Dong
   • GuangYin Hu

   OriginalPaper 16 November 2014 Pages: 1 - 9

2. Morphology and formation mechanism of sand shadow dunes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

   • JianHua Xiao
   • JianJun Qu
   • KeCun Zhang

   OriginalPaper 16 November 2014 Pages: 10 - 26

3. Relating soil moisture and air temperature to evapotranspiration fluxes during inter-storm periods at a Mediterranean experimental site

   • Antonia Longobardi
   • Elina Khaertdinova

   OriginalPaper 16 November 2014 Pages: 27 - 36

4. Water in the Mogao Grottoes, China: where it comes from and how it is driven

   • HongShou Li
   • WanFu Wang
   • GuoBin Zhang

   OriginalPaper 16 November 2014 Pages: 37 - 45

5. Long-term effects of gravel—sand mulch on soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the Loess Plateau of northwestern China

   • Yang Qiu
   • ZhongKui Xie
   • JiLong Ren

   OriginalPaper 16 November 2014 Pages: 46 - 53

6. Phenology of desert plants from an arid gravel plain in eastern United Arab Emirates

   • Sabitha Sakkir
   • Junid N. Shah
   • Maher Kabshawi

   OriginalPaper 23 June 2014 Pages: 54 - 62

7. The relationship between soil, climate and forest development in the mid-mountain zone of the Sangong River watershed in the northern Tianshan Mountains, China

   • Li Dai
   • YiXing Feng
   • WenQiang Xu

   OriginalPaper 16 November 2014 Pages: 63 - 72

8. A preliminary study of water use strategy of desert plants in Dunhuang, China

   • YongQin Cui
   • JianYing Ma
   • ZhengHu Duan

   OriginalPaper 04 August 2014 Pages: 73 - 81

9. Species composition and diversity, and carbon stock in a dune ecosystem in the Horqin Sandy Land of northern China

   • FeiLong Hu
   • WenKai Shou
   • Carlos A. Busso

   OriginalPaper 11 July 2014 Pages: 82 - 93

10. Growth and physiological responses of Agriophyllum squarrosum to sand burial stress

    • Jin Li
    • Hao Qu
    • ChengChen Pan

    OriginalPaper 10 June 2014 Pages: 94 - 100

11. Responses of microbial activities and soil physical-chemical properties to the successional process of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang

    • BingChang Zhang
    • XiaoBing Zhou
    • YuanMing Zhang

    OriginalPaper 21 June 2014 Pages: 101 - 109

12. Effects of shrub presence and shrub species on ground beetle assemblages (Carabidae, Curculionidae and Tenebrionidae) in a sandy desert, northwestern China

    • JiLiang Liu
    • WenZhi Zhao
    • FengRui Li

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2014 Pages: 110 - 121

13. A new parallel framework of distributed SWAT calibration

    • Qiang Li
    • Xi Chen
    • YanGang Wang

    OriginalPaper 30 October 2014 Pages: 122 - 131