Abstract Natural revegetation, afforestation, and lignocellulosic crops for bioenergy, possibly coupled with a developing technology like carbon capture storage, are the most common land-based climate change mitigation options. However, they can compete land threaten food security or nature conservation. Using abandoned cropland their deployment minimize these risks, but associated potentials u...

Ecosystem integrity on steep mountain slopes and in high elevation landscapes is in general a question of soil stability, which in turn depends on plant cover and rooting patterns. Terrestrial net primary production and decomposition rates in arctic and alpine ecosystems are low and revegetation after human disturbance can take centuries. Relatively few species regulate the annual input and los...

Vegetation change in arid areas may lead to the redistribution of regional water resources, which can intensify competition between ecosystems and humans for resources. This study aimed accurately model impact vegetation on hydrological processes an endorheic river watershed undergoing revegetation, namely, middle lower reaches Bayin River basin, China. A LU-SWAT-MODFLOW was developed by integr...