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    Land Degradation & Development: Volume 29, Issue 8

    i, 2233-2770
    August 2018
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Fangli Wei,  Shuai Wang,  Bojie Fu,  Naiqing Pan,  Xiaoming Feng,  Wenwu Zhao,  Cong Wang, 
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  • First Published: 10 August 2018
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The cover image, by Fangli Wei et al., is based on the Research Article Vegetation dynamic trends and the main drivers detected using the ensemble empirical mode decomposition method in East Africa, https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3017. Photo credit: Shuai Wang.

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  • Pages: 2233-2236
  • First Published: 10 August 2018

RESEARCH ARTICLES

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Coarse and fine sediment sources in nested watersheds with eucalyptus forest

Miriam Fernanda Rodrigues,  José Miguel Reichert,  Robert A. Burrow,  Erico Marlon Moraes Flores,  Jean Paolo Gomes Minella,  Lilian Alessandra Rodrigues,  Jussiane Souza Silva Oliveira,  Rosane Barbosa Lopes Cavalcante, 
  • Pages: 2237-2253
  • First Published: 02 May 2018
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Cultivated oasis evolution in the Heihe River Basin over the past 2,000 years

Xia Tang,  Yan Zhao,  Zhiqiang Zhang,  Qi Feng,  Yongping Wei, 
  • Pages: 2254-2263
  • First Published: 30 April 2018
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Addressing uncertainties in interpreting soil surface changes by multitemporal high-resolution topography data across scales

Andreas Kaiser,  Annelie Erhardt,  Anette Eltner, 
  • Pages: 2264-2277
  • First Published: 16 April 2018
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Efficiency of four different seeded plants and native vegetation as cover crops in the control of soil and carbon losses by water erosion in olive orchards

Miguel A. Repullo-Ruibérriz de Torres,  Rafaela Ordóñez-Fernández,  Juan V. Giráldez,  Javier Márquez-García,  Ana Laguna,  Rosa Carbonell-Bojollo, 
  • Pages: 2278-2290
  • First Published: 23 May 2018
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Net value of farmland ecosystem services in China

Shixiong Cao,  Junze Zhang,  Yujie Liu,  Zhongqi Yu,  Xu Liu, 
  • Pages: 2291-2298
  • First Published: 03 July 2018
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Modelling and mapping erosion in smallholder agro-ecosystems, Tanzania

Juma Wickama,  Aad Kessler,  Geert Sterk, 
  • Pages: 2299-2309
  • First Published: 21 June 2018
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Identification of the most limiting factor for rice yield using soil data collected before planting and during the reproductive stage

Ming-Ming Wang,  Pichu Rengasamy,  Zhi-Chun Wang,  Fu Yang,  Hong-Yuan Ma,  Li-Hua Huang,  Miao Liu,  Hao-Yu Yang,  Jing-Peng Li,  Feng-Hua An,  Yang-Yang Li,  Xiao-Long Liu,  Zheng-Wei Liang, 
  • Pages: 2310-2320
  • First Published: 06 June 2018
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Teatime on Mount Kilimanjaro: Assessing climate and land-use effects on litter decomposition and stabilization using the Tea Bag Index

Joscha N. Becker,  Yakov Kuzyakov, 
  • Pages: 2321-2329
  • First Published: 24 April 2018
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The impact of grazing on seedling patterns in degraded sparse-elm grassland

Yongcui Wang,  Lei Chu,  Stefani Daryanto,  Lixin Wang,  Jixiang Lin,  Musa Ala, 
  • Pages: 2330-2337
  • First Published: 01 June 2018
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Detection of areas susceptible to land degradation in Cyprus using remote sensed data and environmental quality indices

Stavros Kolios,  Stavros Mitrakos,  Chrysostomos Stylios, 
  • Pages: 2338-2350
  • First Published: 23 May 2018
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Groundwater vulnerability assessment in degraded coal mining areas using the AHP–Modified DRASTIC model

Shivesh Kishore Karan,  Sukha Ranjan Samadder,  Vivek Singh, 
  • Pages: 2351-2365
  • First Published: 03 May 2018
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Derivation of regional risk screening values and intervention values for cadmium-contaminated agricultural land in the Guizhou Plateau

Sha Zhang,  Jing Song,  Yinwen Cheng,  Murray B. McBride, 
  • Pages: 2366-2377
  • First Published: 01 June 2018
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Impacts of climate change adaptation options on soil functions: A review of European case-studies

Ahmad Hamidov,  Katharina Helming,  Gianni Bellocchi,  Waldemar Bojar,  Tommy Dalgaard,  Bhim Bahadur Ghaley,  Christian Hoffmann,  Ian Holman,  Annelie Holzkämper,  Dominika Krzeminska,  Sigrun H. Kværnø,  Heikki Lehtonen,  Georg Niedrist,  Lillian Øygarden,  Pytrik Reidsma,  Pier Paolo Roggero,  Teodor Rusu,  Cristina Santos,  Giovanna Seddaiu,  Eva Skarbøvik,  Domenico Ventrella,  Jacek Żarski,  Martin Schönhart, 
  • Pages: 2378-2389
  • First Published: 12 May 2018
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Assessment of coastal development policy based on simulating a sustainable land-use scenario for Liaoning Coastal Zone in China

Jie Fan,  Qiang Wang,  Yafei Wang,  Dong Chen,  Kan Zhou, 
  • Pages: 2390-2402
  • First Published: 17 May 2018
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Soil respiration versus vegetation degradation under the influence of three grazing regimes in the Songnen Plain

Qiang Li,  Dao-Wei Zhou, 
  • Pages: 2403-2416
  • First Published: 03 May 2018
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Effectiveness of protected areas in preventing rubber expansion and deforestation in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

Chaya Sarathchandra,  Gbadamassi G.O. Dossa,  Niranjan Bhakta Ranjitkar,  Huafang Chen,  Zhai Deli,  Sailesh Ranjitkar,  Kaluwa Handi Wasana Lalanthi de Silva,  Sriyani Wickramasinghe,  Jianchu Xu,  Rhett D. Harrison, 
  • Pages: 2417-2427
  • First Published: 19 April 2018
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Construction of coastline shelterbelts and assessment of their environmental effects in Yuyao, China

Qihua Shan,  Jianfeng Zhang,  Shiyong Sun,  Guangcai Chen,  Handan Zhang,  Liming Shen, 
  • Pages: 2428-2437
  • First Published: 21 June 2018
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Surface erosion and underground leakage of yellow soil on slopes in karst regions of southwest China

Quanhou Dai,  Xudong Peng,  Peijiang Wang,  Changlan Li,  Hongbo Shao, 
  • Pages: 2438-2448
  • First Published: 21 April 2018
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Evaluation of spatial distribution and regional zone delineation for micronutrients in a semiarid Deccan Plateau Region of India

Arvind Kumar Shukla,  Nishant Kumar Sinha,  Pankaj Kumar Tiwari,  Chandra Prakash,  Sanjib Kumar Behera,  P. Surendra Babu,  M.C. Patnaik,  J. Somasundaram,  Pooja Singh,  Brahma Swaroop Dwivedi,  Siba Prasad Datta,  Mahesh C. Meena,  Rahul Tripathi,  Amaresh Kumar Nayak,  Anil Kumar,  Kriti Shukla,  Sahab Siddiqui,  Ashok Kumar Patra, 
  • Pages: 2449-2459
  • First Published: 30 April 2018
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Farmers' perceptions and adaptation behaviours concerning land degradation: A theoretical framework and a case-study in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau of China

Kai Liu,  Donald Huisingh,  Junming Zhu,  Yan Ma,  David O'Connor,  Deyi Hou, 
  • Pages: 2460-2471
  • First Published: 15 May 2018
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Antibiotics and microbial resistance in Brazilian soils under manure application

Marilia Camotti Bastos,  Danilo Rheinheimer dos Santos,  Élodie Aubertheau,  José Augusto Monteiro de Castro Lima,  Thibaut Le Guet,  Laurent Caner,  Leslie Mondamert,  Jérôme Labanowski, 
  • Pages: 2472-2484
  • First Published: 14 April 2018
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Spatial patterns of long-term vegetation greening and browning are consistent across multiple scales: Implications for monitoring land degradation

Karthik Murthy,  Sumanta Bagchi, 
  • Pages: 2485-2495
  • First Published: 19 May 2018
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An assessment of the variation of soil properties with landscape attributes in the highlands of Cameroon

Bertin Takoutsing,  John C. Weber,  Jose Antonio Rodríguez Martín,  Keith Shepherd,  Ermias Aynekulu,  Andrew Sila, 
  • Pages: 2496-2505
  • First Published: 23 June 2018
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Effect of tillage on soil erosion before and after rill development

Longshan Zhao,  Rui Hou,  Faqi Wu, 
  • Pages: 2506-2513
  • First Published: 03 May 2018
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High Arctic coasts at risk—the case study of coastal zone development and degradation associated with climate changes and multidirectional human impacts in Longyearbyen (Adventfjorden, Svalbard)

Marek W. Jaskólski,  Łukasz Pawłowski,  Mateusz C. Strzelecki, 
  • Pages: 2514-2524
  • First Published: 17 April 2018
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Spatiotemporal drought evaluation of Hyrcanian deciduous forests and semi-steppe rangelands using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer time series in Northeast Iran

Omid Abdi,  Zeinab Shirvani,  Manfred F. Buchroithner, 
  • Pages: 2525-2541
  • First Published: 24 May 2018
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Vegetation dynamic trends and the main drivers detected using the ensemble empirical mode decomposition method in East Africa

Fangli Wei,  Shuai Wang,  Bojie Fu,  Naiqing Pan,  Xiaoming Feng,  Wenwu Zhao,  Cong Wang, 
  • Pages: 2542-2553
  • First Published: 18 May 2018
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A conceptual model of natural land degradation based on regressive pedogenesis in semiarid tropical environments

Duraisamy Vasu,  Pramod Tiwary,  Padikkal Chandran,  Surendra Kumar Singh,  Sanjay Kumar Ray,  Pravin Butte,  Vilas Parhad, 
  • Pages: 2554-2567
  • First Published: 10 May 2018

SHORT REPORT

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Sewage sludge as an organic amendment for quarry restoration: Effects on soil and vegetation

Vicenç Carabassa,  Oriol Ortiz,  Josep M. Alcañiz, 
  • Pages: 2568-2574
  • First Published: 21 June 2018

Special Issue Title: Connectivity in Hydrology and Sediment Dynamics

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Impacts of human activities on the structural and functional connectivity of a river network in the Taihu Plain

Xiaojun Deng,  Youpeng Xu,  Longfei Han, 
  • Pages: 2575-2588
  • First Published: 14 May 2018
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Connectivity of Niches of Adaptation Affects Vegetation Structure and Density in Self-Organized (Dis-Connected) Vegetation Patterns

Chiara Callegaro,  Nadia Ursino, 
  • Pages: 2589-2594
  • First Published: 29 June 2017
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How might sediment connectivity change in space and time?

Etienne Cossart,  Vincent Viel,  Candide Lissak,  Romain Reulier,  Mathieu Fressard,  Daniel Delahaye, 
  • Pages: 2595-2613
  • First Published: 23 May 2018
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Statistical check of USLE-M and USLE-MM to predict bare plot soil loss in two Italian environments

Vincenzo Bagarello,  Vito Ferro,  Giuseppe Giordano,  Francesco Mannocchi,  Francesca Todisco,  Lorenzo Vergni, 
  • Pages: 2614-2628
  • First Published: 21 June 2018
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Modeling of spatiotemporal variations in runoff contribution areas and analysis of hydrologic connectivity

Kendall Grimm,  Xuefeng Chu, 
  • Pages: 2629-2643
  • First Published: 23 June 2018

Special Issue Title: Landscape degradation

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China's wetlands loss to urban expansion

Dehua Mao,  Zongming Wang,  Jianguo Wu,  Bingfang Wu,  Yuan Zeng,  Kaishan Song,  Kunpeng Yi,  Ling Luo, 
  • Pages: 2644-2657
  • First Published: 23 March 2018

Special Issue Title: Mapping and Modelling Soil Erosion to Address Societal Challenges in a Changing World

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Influence of climate and land use changes on recent trends of soil erosion rates within the Russian Plain

Valentin Golosov,  Oleg Yermolaev,  Leonid Litvin,  Nelli Chizhikova,  Zoya Kiryukhina,  Gusel Safina, 
  • Pages: 2658-2667
  • First Published: 21 June 2018

Special Issue Title: Paraglacial processes

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High-speed colonization of bare ground—Permanent plot studies on primary succession of plants in recently deglaciated glacier forelands

Thomas Fickert,  Friederike Grüninger, 
  • Pages: 2668-2680
  • First Published: 22 June 2018

Special Issue Title: Restoration

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Long-term impacts of shrub plantations in a desert–oasis ecotone: Accumulation of soil nutrients, salinity, and development of herbaceour layer

Kailiang Yu,  Guohua Wang, 
  • Pages: 2681-2693
  • First Published: 18 May 2018
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Ramial wood amendments (Piliostigma reticulatum) mitigate degradation of tropical soils but do not replenish nutrient exports

Georges F. Félix,  Cathy Clermont-Dauphin,  Edmond Hien,  Jeroen C.J. Groot,  Aurélien Penche,  Bernard G. Barthès,  Raphaël J. Manlay,  Pablo Tittonell,  Laurent Cournac, 
  • Pages: 2694-2706
  • First Published: 01 June 2018

Special Issue Title: Salt Soil Improvement and Efficient Development

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Physiological and transcriptional responses to salt stress in salt-tolerant and salt-sensitive soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) seedlings

Lihua Ning,  Guizhen Kan,  Hongbo Shao,  Deyue Yu, 
  • Pages: 2707-2719
  • First Published: 10 May 2018
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Nonadditive effects of biochar amendments on soil phosphorus fractions in two contrasting soils

Gang Xu,  Hongbo Shao,  You Zhang,  Sun Junna, 
  • Pages: 2720-2727
  • First Published: 25 May 2018
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The influences of thorny bamboo growth on the bacterial community in badland soils of southwestern Taiwan

Yu-Te Lin,  William B. Whitman,  David C. Coleman,  Yo-Jin Shiau,  Shih-Hao Jien,  Chih-Yu Chiu, 
  • Pages: 2728-2738
  • First Published: 17 April 2018
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Calcium–sodium exchange equilibria in two soils of Chambal Command Area of Rajasthan, India

Balendra Singh,  Prakash Chandra Srivastava,  Manoj Shrivastava, 
  • Pages: 2739-2745
  • First Published: 10 May 2018

Special Issue Title: The Role of Historic Human Impacts on Modern Environmental Processes and Management

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Geomorphological and sedimentological indicators of land degradation (Meghalaya Plateau, NE India)

Zofia Rączkowska,  Anna Bucała-Hrabia,  Paweł Prokop, 
  • Pages: 2746-2759
  • First Published: 20 May 2018
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Impact of topography and sedentary swidden cultivation on soils in the hilly uplands of North-East India

Paweł Prokop,  Bogusława Kruczkowska,  Hiambok J. Syiemlieh,  Anna Bucała-Hrabia, 
  • Pages: 2760-2770
  • First Published: 21 May 2018