Infiltration through three contrasting biological soil crusts in patterned landscapes in the Negev, Israel

Eldridge, David J.; Zaady, Eli; Shachak, Moshe

doi:10.1016/s0341-8162(00)00082-5

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“…The coverage and abundance of herbaceous species were closely related to precipitation. Although succession of the BSCs was not directly related to soil water and mainly depended on dust deposition and soil stability variation [30], they did affect the redistribution of soil water, especially: infiltration [18,33], dew deposition [27,28] and soil evaporation [34,35]. The ecological (soil stabilization, improved aggregate structure, nitrogen fixation and carbon sequestration) and the hydrological functions performed by BSCs made them an important component of the stable composition of sand-binding vegetation [36].…”

Section: Driving Effects Of Soil Water Dynamics On Vegetation Variationmentioning

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Ecological restoration and recovery in the wind-blown sand hazard areas of northern China: relationship between soil water and carrying capacity for vegetation in the Tengger Desert

Zhang

Tan

et al. 2014

Sci. China Life Sci.

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The main prevention and control area for wind-blown sand hazards in northern China is about 320000 km 2 in size and includes sandlands to the east of the Helan Mountain and sandy deserts and desert-steppe transitional regions to the west of the Helan Mountain. Vegetation recovery and restoration is an important and effective approach for constraining wind-blown sand hazards in these areas. After more than 50 years of long-term ecological studies in the Shapotou region of the Tengger Desert, we found that revegetation changed the hydrological processes of the original sand dune system through the utilization and space-time redistribution of soil water. The spatiotemporal dynamics of soil water was significantly related to the dynamics of the replanted vegetation for a given regional precipitation condition. The long-term changes in hydrological processes in desert areas also drive replanted vegetation succession. The soil water carrying capacity of vegetation and the model for sand fixation by revegetation in aeolian desert areas where precipitation levels are less than 200 mm are also discussed. desert areas, sand fixation by plant, succession of the artificial vegetation, soil water dynamics, carrying capacity for vegetation Citation:Li XR, Zhang ZS, Tan HJ, Gao YH, Liu LC, Wang XP. Ecological restoration and recovery in the wind-blown sand hazard areas of northern China: relationship between soil water and carrying capacity for vegetation in the Tengger Desert.

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Section: Driving Effects Of Soil Water Dynamics On Vegetation Variationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological restoration and recovery in the wind-blown sand hazard areas of northern China: relationship between soil water and carrying capacity for vegetation in the Tengger Desert

Zhang

Tan

et al. 2014

Sci. China Life Sci.

115

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“…BSCs dominated by algae and lichen decreased precipitation infiltration and increased runoff, which benefitted vascular plant patches as they gained water and nutrients [115][116][117]. However, the effect of BSCs on hydrological processes is confused by underlying soil physiochemical properties, especially soil texture [118,119]. The difficulty is how to discriminate between the effects of BSCs and the underlying soil texture on hydrological processes, such as infiltration and runoff.…”

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Review of the ecohydrological processes and feedback mechanisms controlling sand-binding vegetation systems in sandy desert regions of China

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Soil water is the key abiotic limiting factor in desert areas and hydrological processes determine the vegetation composition, patterns and processes in desert regions. The hydrological processes can be altered by vegetation succession. In this paper, we review the major advances in ecohydrological research and their potential impact on plant-water relations in revegetated desert communities. The major advances in ecohydrological research over the past 50 years in desert areas were analyzed using a case study that investigated the long-term ecosystem effects of sand-binding vegetation in the Tengger Desert. Key challenges and opportunities for ecohydrology research in the future are also discussed in the context of the major scientific issues affecting sand binding vegetation.

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“…Such areas may still be covered by micro-organisms, most commonly cyanobacteria, that form biological crusts [20,21]. Soil crusts generally reduce the infiltration rate of surface water into the soil, and thereby affect the spatial distribution of the limiting water resource [22]. They also affect the process of seed germination.…”

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Modeling Dryland Landscapes

Meron

2010

Math. Model. Nat. Phenom.

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Abstract. The discovery of nearly periodic vegetation patterns in arid and semi-arid regions motivated numerous model studies in the past decade. Most studies have focused on vegetation pattern formation, and on the response of vegetation patterns to gradients of the limiting water resource. The reciprocal question, what resource modifications are induced by vegetation pattern formation, which is essential to the understanding of dryland landscapes, has hardly been addressed. This paper is a synthetic review of model studies that address this question and the consequent implications for inter-specific plant interactions and species diversity. It focuses both on patch and landscape scales, highlighting bottom-up processes, where plant interactions at the patch scale give rise to spatial patterns at the landscape scale, and top-down processes, where pattern transitions at the landscape scale affect inter-specific interactions at the patch scale.

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Infiltration through three contrasting biological soil crusts in patterned landscapes in the Negev, Israel

Cited by 243 publications

References 28 publications

Ecological restoration and recovery in the wind-blown sand hazard areas of northern China: relationship between soil water and carrying capacity for vegetation in the Tengger Desert

Ecological restoration and recovery in the wind-blown sand hazard areas of northern China: relationship between soil water and carrying capacity for vegetation in the Tengger Desert

Review of the ecohydrological processes and feedback mechanisms controlling sand-binding vegetation systems in sandy desert regions of China

Modeling Dryland Landscapes

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