Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the ...

This paper presents a systematic study of wood charcoal from a series of archaeological sites, demonstrating that woody plants and woodlands were widely ...

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woodlands were associated with a few tropical-subtropical taxa, which changed to oak and pine (Pinus spp.) mixed forests on the eastern plateau, ...

Forest cover and composition on the Loess Plateau during the Middle to Late-Holocene: Integrating wood charcoal analyses · Hui Shen, Xiaoqiang Li, +2 authors

Prehistoric vegetation on the Loess Plateau: steppe or forest?

Coordinated analyses on the soils, phytolith assemblage, organic carbon isotope composition and pollen data from selected sites suggest that the Holocene ...

The greening of vegetation on the Loess Plateau has resulted in a ...

Historical records and archaeological excavations reveal a substantial decline in forest coverage on the Loess Plateau from 50% in 1066–771 BCE to 6% in 1949, ...

Scale effects and variability of forest–water yield relationships on the ...

The relationship between forests and water yield on the Loess Plateau is a concern to forest hydrologists and local governments. Most research indicates ...

Vegetation resilience does not increase consistently with greening ...

The Loess Plateau in China is an ecologically vulnerable area that has experienced severe vegetation loss, soil erosion, and land degradation.

The Loess Plateau: Finding a Place for Forests

High erosion results from the generally low vegetation cover, steep slopes, erodible soils, the long history of inappropriate culti- vation and animal husbandry ...

Large‐Scale Afforestation Over the Loess Plateau in China ...

The comparison between the land cover before (Figure 1a) and after (Figure 1b) the GFGP shows that nearly 44% of the area (Figure 1c) in LP ...

"Did An Extensive Forest Ever Develop on the Chinese Loess ...

Pleistocene vegetation history on the Chinese Loess Plateau has been traditionally investigated using palynological methods, and questions remain regarding ...

Response of drought index to land use types in the Loess Plateau of ...

From 1980 to 2010, the reform and opening up and the project of returning farmland to forest have largely changed the land use type of Loess ...

Ecological Restoration in the Loess Plateau, China Necessitates ...

The results indicated that, from 1975 to 2015, the proportion of forestland in the Beiluo River basin increased by 18.27%, while the areas of ...

The Loess Plateau: Finding a Place for Forests - ResearchGate

Forests are not a dominant land cover within the plateau ecosystem. Collectively, the four major plateau provinces represent only 7.2% of the ...

Chinese Loess Plateau vegetation since the Last Glacial Maximum ...

This massive afforestation has led to a considerable increase in forest and a decrease in dust-storm activity in some areas. However, there have ...

Vegetation Restoration and Its Environmental Effects on the Loess ...

An analysis of land use/cover change (LUCC) on the Loess Plateau over the past 30 years and its environmental effects was performed to provide scientific ...

Scale effects and variability of forest–water yield relationships on the ...

The relationship between forests and water yield on the Loess Plateau is a concern to forest hydrologists and local governments.

The Loess Plateau: Finding a Place for Forests - ProQuest

Forests are not a dominant land cover within the plateau ecosystem. Collectively, the four major plateau provinces represent only 7.2% of the total area of ...

Spatiotemporal patterns of planted forests on the Loess Plateau ...

The results showed that the newly planted forests experienced four phases: a slow rise from 1986 to 2000, a sharp increase during 2001–2004, a fluctuating ...

Impact of revegetation of the Loess Plateau of China on the regional ...

Following the conversion of croplands and bare land on hillslopes to forests, the Loess Plateau has displayed a significant greening trend, ...

Loess Plateau: Finding a Place for Forests - Oxford Academic

... vegetation cover through extensive afforestation programs. This article reviews different forest systems and sivilculture practices within the region and ...