As a country with a vast area and complex terrain, the differentiation between paddy field and dryland under different topographic gradients in China is difficult. Based on a land-use grid data set with an accuracy of 1 km, this study applied the Top...
Soil inorganic carbon (SIC) is an essential component of the soil carbon pool and plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle and climate change. However, few studies have examined the effects of different agronomic practices on the SIC content. Th...
This study examines the role of farm forestry Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) in strengthening climate resilience in mixed crop–livestock systems in dryland Kenya. Based on interviews and focus group discussions in Embu and Taita Taveta, this study...
The spatial-temporal distribution pattern of China’s cultivated land has changed dramatically from 1990 to 2020, and the problem of cultivated land fragmentation has become more prominent. However, the existing research lacks a focus on the two...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) are key indicators of soil fertility; however, the dynamics of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) fractions during winter wheat growth under different tillage systems remain poorly understood. This study exa...
The use of fertilizers is mainly adopted in arid regions to improve the soil carbon (C) pool and crop productivity. However, the mechanisms underlying improvements in dryland wheat field soils related to microbial metabolic activity and community str...
Agricultural systems exhibit a large degree of within-field yield variability. We require a better understanding of the drivers of this variability in order to optimally manage croplands. We investigated drivers of sub-field spatial variability in yi...
Plastic mulching, given its positive effects on temperature and water retention, has been widely used to solve water shortages and nutrient scarcity in rainfed agricultural soils. This practice affects the physical and chemical processes of soil, inc...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and rhizobium play a significant role in plant symbiosis. However, their influence on the rhizosphere soil microbiome associated with nutrient acquisition and soil health is not well defined in the drylands of Monta...
Fertilization alters crop yield, soil aggregation, and carbon sequestration potential. However, the specific effects and interactive mechanisms of long-term fertilization on soil organic carbon (SOC), aggregate-associated organic carbon (OC), and yie...
Efficient weed detection in dryland spring wheat fields is crucial for sustainable agriculture, as it enables targeted interventions that reduce herbicide use, minimize environmental impact, and optimize resource allocation in water-limited farming s...
Dryland ecosystems are frequently struck by droughts. Yet, woody vegetation is often able to recover from mortality events once precipitation returns to pre-drought conditions. Climate change, however, may impact woody vegetation resilience due to mo...
Morchella sextelata a species of high nutritional and economic value, is widely cultivated. To investigate how different cultivation environments affect the soil physicochemical properties and microbial communities associated with common morel, this...
Under maize–soybean rotation systems, weeds and crops at the seedling stage in dryland fields exhibit high similarity in morphological structure, scale distribution, and spatial arrangement. In addition, complex illumination conditions, occlusi...
Texas cotton production is facing challenges from increased temperatures and extended droughts. We sought to determine whether applying a multi-species grass mulch on the surface of cotton fields in a semiarid region would mitigate some of the negati...
In this work, we aimed to test whether taxonomic diversity and functional diversity and the values of functional traits of the weed seed bank varied across the field, from margins to the core, and between fields embedded in distinct landscape structu...
The estimation of pasture productivity is of great interest for the management of animal grazing. The standard method of assessing pasture mass requires great effort and expense to collect enough samples to accurately represent a pasture. This work p...
Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.), a typical dryland crop, has a high nutrient uptake capacity, which can lead to rapid soil nutrient depletion. Establishing soil conservation strategies compatible with the high yield traits of hybrid millet is cru...
Land consolidation of dryland-to-paddy conversion for improving tillage conditions and grain production capacity is widely implemented throughout the world. The conversion affects soil ecological stability, especially the most active soil microorgani...
Conservation agriculture (CA) involving zero tillage, crop diversification, and residue retention is considered a panacea for several interrelated problems in agricultural production. However, in the mixed crop-livestock production systems of the dry...
The adoption of tillage during summer fallow can effectively store precipitation in summer and increase the soil water content in the dryland wheat fields of the eastern Loess Plateau; however, its influencing mechanism is still unknown. Three tillag...
Differences in water-acquisition strategies of tree root systems can determine the capacity to survive under severe drought. We evaluate the effects of field water shortage on early survival, growth and root morphological variables of two South Ameri...
Maintaining soil health and sustainable crop production has been challenged by climate variability and wind erosion in semi-arid regions. To understand the initial effects of the transition of tilled cotton systems to no-tillage with winter wheat as...
Previous research on ecological restoration mainly includes three fields: water ecology, soil ecology, and atmospheric ecology, and the most abundant is in the field of soil ecology, among which the most abundant is in dryland ecological restoration....
Satellite-derived vegetation fractional cover (VFC) has shown to be a promising tool for dryland ecosystem monitoring. This model, calibrated through biophysical field measurements, depicts the sub-pixel proportion of photosynthetic vegetation (PV),...
To respond to China’s policies of “balancing and supplementing high-quality farmland, converting dryland to paddy fields” and of improving the quality of drylands, large-scale dryland conversion to paddy fields has been recently imp...
The rapid expansion of cropland in Cambodia, the world’s seventh-largest rice exporter, has created an imbalance in land use structure. However, there is a lack of quantitative investigation of the loss of ecological land as a result of the exp...
In the Anthropocene, dryland ecosystems—natural and semi-natural ecosystems—are highly sensitive to anthropogenic warming, and their carbon cycling dynamics are easily disrupted by this trend. In this perspective, we propose a novel yet l...
To investigate differences in water and salt transport during irrigation, freezing, and thawing periods in typical saline-affected paddy fields and saline-affected upland fields, field-based automated in situ monitoring was conducted in both types of...
The distribution characteristics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil nutrients under different land-use types in Linyi City, East China, were studied. The spatial distribution of SOC under different land-use types and the relationship between SOC a...
Understanding soil nutrients and stoichiometry across land-use types is essential for semiarid ecosystem management. We selected 130 sampling sites across four land-use types (dryland, paddy field, grassland, and forestland) in the Western Songnen Pl...
Drylands are characterized by unique ecosystem types, sparse vegetation, fragile environments, and vital ecosystem services. The accurate mapping of dryland ecosystems is essential for their protection and restoration, but previous approaches primari...
Policy-makers and practitioners often struggle or fail to define and quantify the economic impacts that can be achieved through ecologically sustainable investments in dryland ecosystems. This paper reviews the current state of the art in the charact...
Drylands are vast and face threats from climate change and human activities. Traditional reviews cannot capture interdisciplinary knowledge, but bibliometric analysis provides valuable insights. Our study conducted bibliometric research of scientific...
To amplify grain production capacity, a global trend is emerging in which many regions are transitioning from dependence on rainfall to irrigated agriculture. An illustrative example of this form of land consolidation is the conversion from dryland t...
Understanding the phosphorus (P) cycle is essential for preventing soil P loss, improving environmental quality, and promoting sustainable agriculture, particularly in urban areas. In this study, a representative city of the lower Yangtze River Basin...
The predominant cropping scheme for dryland wheat production in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) region of the United States includes winter wheat–summer fallow. Lack of crop diversification can deplete the soil organic matter and nutrients, while f...
Drylands are characterised by patchy vegetation, erodible surfaces and erosive aeolian processes. Empirical and modelling studies have shown that vegetation elements provide drag on the overlying airflow, thus affecting wind velocity profiles and alt...
Land-use systems (LUSs) and soil types (STs) are strongly related to factors that influence soil degradation and carbon (C) loss. However, the way in which land use and soil type affects the soil organic C (SOC) pools, and soil aggregation in the San...
Farming systems act as ecological filters impacting cropland associated biodiversity; however, the extent of these effects is largely unknown in the drylands of the Northern Great Plains (NGP), a key conventional and organic crop production region. I...
Cropland abandonment is a critical challenge for food security and the sustainable use of land resources, especially in the hilly and mountainous regions of southern China. To characterize the spatiotemporal evolution and associated-factor patterns o...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the largest data gaps in water management due to the limited availability of measured evapotranspiration data, and because ET spatial variability is difficult to characterize at various scales. Satellite-based ET est...
Water supply constraints are recognized as major factors affecting regional dryland wheat production, but the details of these constraints have yet to be fully explored. We performed an analysis of field experiments conducted in northern Chinese area...
It is of great significance for the improvement of grain production capacity and the protection of cultivated land in the Black Soil Region to reveal the temporal and spatial evolution trend of the change in cultivated land resources. In this paper,...
Sowing space and depth critically influence wheat canopy architecture, yet their layer-specific effects remain poorly understood. This two-year field study evaluated the effects of three sowing spaces (1.5, 3.0, 4.5 cm) and three sowing depths (2, 3,...
With rapid innovations in drone, camera, and 3D photogrammetry, drone-based remote sensing can accurately and efficiently provide ultra-high resolution imagery and digital surface model (DSM) at a landscape scale. Several studies have been conducted...
On the semiarid Colorado Plateau, dryland farmers are challenged by degraded soils and unreliable precipitation. While cover crops have been shown to support soil fertility, control erosion, and enhance soil water capture, they also use limited soil...
Dryland watersheds are governed by tightly coupled source–sink dynamics, in which expanding bare soil and declining vegetated patches amplify runoff, sediment transport, and land degradation. Identifying suitable locations for water harvesting...
Dryland winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production plays an extremely important role in the southeast of the Loess Plateau. Planting patterns have great influence on improving soil water storage and yield, and should be matched with different see...
Leaf phenology is key to ecosystem functioning by regulating carbon, water, and energy fluxes and influencing vegetation productivity. Yet, detecting land surface phenology (LSP) in drylands using remote sensing remains particularly challenging due t...
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