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Masoud Jafari Shalamzari, Wanchang Zhang, Atefeh Gholami and Zhijie Zhang
Site selection for runoff harvesting at large scales is a very complex task. It requires inclusion and spatial analysis of a multitude of accurately measured parameters in a time-efficient manner. Compared with direct measurements of runoff, which is tim...
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Zhaoxin Wang, Tiejun Wang and Yonggen Zhang
Knowledge of both state (e.g., soil moisture) and flux (e.g., actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and groundwater recharge (GR)) hydrological variables across vadose zones is critical for understanding ecohydrological and land-surface processes. In this stud...
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Salah Basem Ajjur and Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Natural groundwater recharge (GR) assessment depends on several hydrogeological and climatic inputs, where uncertainty is inevitable. Assessing how inputs? uncertainty affects GR estimation is important; however, it remains unclear in arid areas. This st...
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Eman Mohamed M. EL-Bana, Haya M. Alogayell, Mariam Hassan Sheta and Mohamed Abdelfattah
It might be difficult to find possible groundwater reservoir zones, especially in arid or hilly regions. In the twenty-first century, remotely sensed satellite imagery may present a new opportunity to locate surface and subsurface water resources more qu...
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Yalin Gao, Jinghai Wang, Yanlin Ma, Minhua Yin, Qiong Jia, Rongrong Tian, Yanxia Kang, Guangping Qi, Chen Wang, Yuanbo Jiang and Haiyan Li
Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum L.) production in arid and semi-arid areas is drastically affected by the low utilization rate of soil and water resources and the irrational application of water and nitrogen fertilizers. Thus, this study explored a high-yield...
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Kaiyang Qiu, Zhigang Li, Yingzhong Xie, Dongmei Xu, Chen He and Richard Pott
Desertification reversal is globally significant for the sustainable development of land resources. However, the mechanisms of desertification reversal at the level of plant community are still unclear. We hypothesized that desertification reversal has c...
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Holger Manuel Benavides-Muñoz, Verónica Correa-Escudero, Darwin Pucha-Cofrep and Franz Pucha-Cofrep
Access to freshwater in developing regions remains a significant concern, particularly in arid and semiarid areas with limited annual precipitation. Groundwater, a vital resource in these regions, faces dual threats?climate change and unsustainable explo...
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Gholamreza Eslamifar, Hamid Balali and Alexander Fernald
Enhancing the comprehension of alterations in land use holds paramount importance for water management in semi-arid regions due to its effects on hydrology and agricultural economics. Allowing agricultural land to lie fallow has emerged as a technique to...
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Yuan Yao, Chenwei Tu, Gaojia Hu, Yuhan Zhang, Hanyuan Cao, Wanrui Wang and Weihua Wang
Intense anthropogenic activities in arid regions remarkably affect groundwater by causing phreatic decline and water environmental deterioration. A systematic understanding of groundwater hydrochemical evolution and recharge is critical to regional water...
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Qingtao Zhang, Heng Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Haoxuan Xie, Tuo Chen and Shuai Guan
Water vapor adsorption on soil, a crucial non-rainfall water resource in arid regions, warrants further experimental investigation, particularly on two typical land surfaces: bare soil and gravel. This study examined the formation characteristics and inf...
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