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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ren Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5813155 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20180214 1
Two contiguous watersheds in the Loess Plateau in China that differed in the way their vegetation had been restored-afforestation or natural revegetation-differed in their consumption of soil moisture: the afforested watershed consumed more soil moisture, although the difference was significant only in wet years. Yet, both the afforestation and natural revegetation did not induce the soil desiccation in the study area. In the afforested watershed, soil moisture was depleted even beyond a depth o ...[more]