1. Editorial: review of 2013 and expectations for 2014

   • YiBing Qian
   • JunFeng Yuan
   • HaiYan Zhang

   EditorialNotes 29 January 2014 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Index-based assessment of agricultural drought in a semi-arid region of Inner Mongolia, China

   • Rui Li
   • Atsushi Tsunekawa
   • Mitsuru Tsubo

   OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 3 - 15

3. Simulation of hydrological processes of mountainous watersheds in inland river basins: taking the Heihe Mainstream River as an example

   • ZhenLiang Yin
   • HongLang Xiao
   • YongPing Shen

   OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 16 - 26

4. Modeling the contribution of abiotic exchange to CO₂ flux in alkaline soils of arid areas

   • WenFeng Wang
   • Xi Chen
   • LongHui Li

   OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 27 - 36

5. Effects of moisture and carbonate additions on CO₂ emission from calcareous soil during closed-jar incubation

   • YanJie Dong
   • Miao Cai
   • JianBin Zhou

   OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 37 - 43

6. Soil salt leaching under different irrigation regimes: HYDRUS-1D modelling and analysis

   • WenZhi Zeng
   • Chi Xu
   • JieSheng Huang

   OriginalPaper 01 June 2013 Pages: 44 - 58

7. Interaction between Cd and Pb in the soil-plant system: a case study of an arid oasis soil-cole system

   • ZhuanJun Zhao
   • ZhongRen Nan
   • Masayuki Shimizu

   OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 59 - 68

8. Computational fluid dynamics evaluation of the effect of different city designs on the wind environment of a downwind natural heritage site

   • BenLi Liu
   • JianJun Qu
   • KeCun Zhang

   OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 69 - 79

9. Mapping aboveground biomass by integrating geospatial and forest inventory data through a k-nearest neighbor strategy in North Central Mexico

   • Carlos A. Aguirre-Salado
   • Eduardo J. Treviño-Garza
   • Liliana Miranda-Aragón

   OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 80 - 96

10. Impacts of grazing and mowing on reproductive behaviors of Stipa grandis and Stipa krylovii in a semi-arid area

    • Hui Gao
    • YuBao Gao
    • XingDong He

    OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 97 - 104

11. Characteristics of Caragana korshinskii and Hippophae rhamnoides stemflow and their significance in soil moisture enhancement in Loess Plateau, China

    • ShengQi Jian
    • ChuanYan Zhao
    • Kai Yu

    OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 105 - 116

12. Response of ants to grazing disturbance at the central Monte Desert of Argentina: community descriptors and functional group scheme

    • Silvia Claver
    • Susana L. Silnik
    • Florencia F. Campón

    OriginalPaper 02 August 2013 Pages: 117 - 127