Duan Xingwu

• Yunnan University

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) economic cooperation program is an effective and fruitful regional cooperation initiative for socioeconomic development in Asia; however, the vegetation change trends and directions in the GMS caused by rapid development remain unknown. In particular, there is a current lack of comparative studies on vegetation ch...

By changing the physicochemical and biological properties of soil, erosion profoundly affects soil nitrogen levels, but knowledge about the erosion impact on soil nitrogen (N) dynamics is still rather incomplete. We compared soil N contents at the early stage of vegetation self-restoration in response to soil erosion thickness (0, 10, 20, 30 and 40...

The risk of water erosion in mainland China is intensifying due to climate change. A high-precision rainfall erosivity dataset is crucial for revealing the spatiotemporal patterns of rainfall erosivity and identifying key areas of water erosion. However, due to the insufficient spatiotemporal resolution of historical precipitation data, there are c...

Vegetation canopies intercept and redistribute rainfall into throughfall and stemflow, which transfer substantial amounts of elements into the soil, influencing soil microbial community, plant survival, and plant community succession. Despite advancements in ecohydrological research, the implication of nutrient enrichment resulting from this redist...

The mapping and dynamic monitoring of large-scale cropland erosion rates are critical for ag-ricultural planning but extremely challenging. In this study, using field investigation data col-lected from 20,155 land parcels in 2817 sample units in the National Soil Erosion Survey, as well as land use change data for two decades from the National Land...

Large scale cropland erosion rates mapping and dynamic monitoring are critical for agricultural planning but extremely challenging. In this study, by using field investigation data collected from 20,155 land parcels in 2,781 sample units in the National Soil Erosion Survey, land use change data for two decades from the National Land Use/Cover Datab...

Grassland degradation seriously affects the health of our planet, thereby weakening the ability of grasslands to provide multiple ecosystem services. Soil microbes have been recognized as game changers in the succession of degraded lands; therefore, the determination of their responses to grassland degradation is crucial for restoring degraded gras...

Many ecological restoration projects have been carried out in Southwest China; however, changes in vegetation cover in the dry valleys of Southwest China have rarely been reported. With their unique characteristics of high temperatures and low humidity, these dry valleys have considerably lower vegetation cover than their neighboring areas, making...

How to assess gully erosion at large spatial scales is a major challenge, and few previous regional-scale studies have identified the vegetation and topography as the main factors of gully erosion, while little attention has been paid to the effects of soil properties on the regional gully occurrence and intensity. The Hengduan Mountain region has...

The Tibetan Plateau's alpine ecosystem has been undergoing accelerated climate change and severe vegetation degradation in the past four decades, which has triggered a sharp increase in soil erosion hazard. However, the combined impacts of climate change and vegetation degradation on soil erodibility (K) across geographical and temporal scales rema...

Quantifying soil conservation service is critical for sustainable land management. However, the traditional algorithm includes a gap between barren land and real soil erosion (BSERef), and its paradox is that a mass of barren land rarely exists in ecologically adaptable areas with fertile soils, which might overestimate soil conservation service. T...

The risk of water erosion on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), a typical fragile ecological area, is increasing with climate change. A rainfall erosivity map is useful for understanding the spatiotemporal pattern of rainfall erosivity and identifying hot spots of soil erosion. This study generates an annual gridded rainfall erosivity dataset on a 0.25∘ gri...

The risk of water erosion on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), a typical fragile ecological area, is increasing with climate change. Rainfall erosivity maps are useful for understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of rainfall erosivity and identifying vulnerable regions. This study generated a gridded annual rainfall erosivity dataset of the TP for 1950–20...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) in China has been experiencing severe water erosion because of climate warming. The rapid development of weather station network provides an opportunity to improve our understanding of rainfall erosivity in the TP. In this study, 1-min precipitation data obtained from 1226 weather stations during 2018–2019 were used to esti...

Soil erosion in croplands has a strong impact on global carbon (C) cycle. Assessment of erosional effects on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in agricultural soils suffers from the difficulty of distinguishing the erosional effects and complex interaction processes between erosion and C cycling. To simulate the effects of soil erosion, a plots ex...

Cropland conversion is a significant theme of the influence of human activities on ecological systems and global food security. Conventionally, cropland conversion in China has been deemed to match the dynamic balance of cropland resources well and to ensure food security for the whole country. However, local studies have presented some conflicting...

A reliable correlation between crop yields and soil erosion is critical for the assessment of soil loss tolerance and loss of future food production in eroded farmlands. However, the heterogeneity between experiments in terms of soil properties, crop types, and farming management makes it difficult to compare and extrapolate results from different...

Check dams represent one of the most important engineering solutions for debris flow prevention and control in mountainous terrains. However, the dynamics of siltation processes behind cascade check dams and siltation effects on check dam efficiency remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the long-term silting processes and their effect on...

Drought incidents and the pressure on water resources have increased in recent years, which has threatened sustainable development. Recently, research has been conducted on drought propagation. However, few studies have investigated the characteristics and mechanisms of drought propagation in plateau mountainous regions with complex topography, whi...

Changes in land use can result in soil erosion and the loss of soil organic carbon (SOC). However, the individual contribution of different land use types on SOC variability as well as the combined impacts of land use and soil erosion are still unclear. The aims of the present study were to: (1) evaluate soil erosion and SOC contents under differen...

Purpose How to predict gully erosion rates was one of the most important issues at present. A model implemented in the Channel Hillslope Integrated Landscape Development (CHILD) model based on the shape factor (Sf) of the plunge pools, which successfully predicted the headcut retreat rates over a long timescale. But whether this model was also vali...

The widely adopted practice of clean-cultivation in rainfed orchards in the Loess Plateau has led to serious soil erosion and degradation problems. Agroforestry is a promising management practice for solving these problems, but may reduce available soil water. Thus, reasonable soil and water management strategies should be developed for agroforestr...

Soil productivity is a primary determinant of vegetation restoration and land resources utilization in debris flow deposits. However, little is known on the soil productivity change process of debris flow deposits behind check dams during rehabilitation. To investigate the change process of soil productivity at debris flow deposits behind check dam...

Development of sustainable mountain agriculture will require an increased understanding of the effects of climatic and environmental factors on grain yield. The objective of this study was to explore the drivers on variations of grain meteorological yield (MY) in Yunnan province, a typical high mountainous region. We used biological logistic regres...

The frequency of debris flows in mountainous areas has increased in recent years, threatening sustainable development of mountainous communities. The Upper Salween Alpine Valley (USAV) experiences the most serious debris flow disasters in China. However, activity patterns and formation mechanisms of debris flow in this area are still unclear. We an...

Background Morphological changes in river beds determine the risk for soil erosion within floodplain areas. At present, little is known about river morphological changes in high-altitude mountainous area influenced by extensive human activities. The study has important reference value for clarifying the morphological changes of mountainous rivers d...

Climatic extremes have adverse concurrent and lagged effects on terrestrial carbon cycles. Here, a concurrent effect refers to the occurrence of a latent impact during climate extremes, and a lagged effect appears sometime thereafter. Nevertheless, the uncertainties of these extreme drought effects on net carbon uptake and the recovery processes of...

In the context of “space of flow”, urban interaction has become the key force impacting urban landscape evolution and urban sustainable development. Current research on urban interaction analysis is mainly conducted based on the interaction of geographical elements, the virtual flow of information in cyberspace has not been given sufficient attenti...

As the dominant area in regional competitions, the urban agglomeration has experienced a dramatic urban land evolution, which has had a significant impact on regional socio-economic development and ecological environment. Conventional simulation models mainly explore the dynamic change of urban land based on the situation of a single city. The urba...

Soil erodibility is a key parameter to measure soil susceptibility to water erosion and thus to soil erosion modelling, introduced as K factor in the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). However, subject to soil spatial heterogeneity and data availability, large-scale K value acquisition has not...

Rapid population migration has been viewed as a critical factor impacting urban network construction and regional sustainable development. The supervision and analysis of population migration are necessary for guiding the optimal allocation of urban resources and for attaining the high efficiency development of region. Currently, the explorations o...

The carbon cycle and underlying environmental drivers are not yet fully understood, and whether climate warming is inducing soil carbon loss remains controversial, largely due to limited evidence from large‐scale observations. With relatively less human disturbance, Yunnan Province, a typical mountainous plateau region in Southwest China, is a favo...

Stemflow is important for recharging root-zone soil moisture in arid regions. Previous studies have generally focused on stemflow volume, efficiency and influential factors but have failed to depict stemflow processes and quantify their relations with rainfall characteristics within events, particularly for xerophytic shrubs. Here, we measured the...

Microbial residues are an important constituent of persistent soil organic carbon (SOC). Nevertheless, how microbial residue contribution to bulk SOC sequestration changes following land use conversion remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated the variation of soil microbial residue C and its contribution to SOC following conversion of maize...

Soil microbial diversity is influenced by many factors, which are rarely studied together. To determine the dominant control on soil bacterial diversity in a typical dry-hot valley (DHV) of southwestern China, we collected soil samples in farmland, garden land and forestland along four elevation gradients of < 600, 600-700, 700-800, and > 800 m. So...

Stemflow is important for recharging root-zone soil moisture in arid regions. Previous studies have generally focused on stemflow volume, efficiency and influential factors but have failed to depict temporal stemflow processes and quantify their relationships with rainfall characteristics within events, particularly for xerophytic shrubs. Here, we...

Ephemeral gully (EG) erosion can cause soil loss and result in soil degradation. Appropriate tillage practices are beneficial to soil conservation and avail against soil erosion. Currently, how tillage contributes to soil erosion of EG at the catchment scale is still unclear. To quantify EG erosion and analyze the effects of tillage practice on EG...

The accumulation and redistribution of heavy metals in soil in a water-level fluctuation zone (WLFZ) can create ecological risks to reservoirs and reduce river health. Little is known about how heavy metals are accumulated and redistributed in the WLFZ of reservoirs with a high background value of the heavy metal in soil. The site chosen for this c...

The southwest alpine gorge region is the major state base of hydropower energy development in China and hence planned many cascading hydropower stations. After the reservoir impoundment, the intense water level fluctuations under the interaction of cascade dams operating and the mountainous flooding, usually cause bank collapse, landslide and debri...

Vegetation coverage is a critical factor in soil conservation and improving the ecological environment. As an important ecological corridor connecting China's southwest and Southeast Asia, the Red River Basin is characterized by vulnerable ecosystems and serious soil erosion. Identifying the heterogeneity in vegetation coverageand its response to c...

On the completion of a large-scale hydropower station, the change of the water area can cause a corresponding change of local weather. To examine such changes, this paper analyzed the effect of the reservoir in the head area of the Xiluodu hydropower station based on the temperature data of MODIS MYD11A2. The temperature differences (TD) between va...

Core Ideas WEPP rangeland model was evaluated using spatial erosion data for the first time. WEPP and ¹³⁷ Cs methods predicted similar low soil erosion rates. Spatial erosion patterns predicted by WEPP and ¹³⁷ Cs methods agreed well. WEPP predicted soil erosion patterns well along rangeland hillslopes. Lack of spatially distributed soil erosion da...

Accurate evaluation of soil productivity has been a long-standing challenge. Although numerous models for productivity assessment exist, most are cumbersome to use and require substantial parameter inputs. We developed a new empirical soil productivity model based on field investigations of soil erosion, soil physicochemical properties, and crop yi...

Farmed catchments have greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture than natural catchments. Increased knowledge about the variation of soil moisture in farmed catchments has important implications for the adoption of appropriate tillage measures for agriculture. The purpose of this study was to determine the spatial and temporal var...

Soil loss tolerance (T) is a widely used concept for assessing potential risks of soil erosion and is a criterion for assessing the effectiveness of soil and water conservation projects. However, current approaches for calculating T values lack a strong scientific basis, and few practicable methods are available. Many questions remain regarding whi...

Mixing models are frequently used as part of sediment fingerprinting to quantify sediment source contributions. Much research effort has been devoted to improving these mixing models. The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a new method using discriminant function analysis (DFA) to fingerprint sediment source contributions. It was h...

The dry-hot valley region (DHV) in southwestern China is one of the most ecologically fragile zones in China with intensive soil erosion. Few studies have focused on the effects of soil erosion on soil productivity in this region. The objectives of this study were to quantify the effects of soil erosion on soil productivity using the ‘soil erosion...

The Yunnan Plateau (YP), southwest China, is a typical plateau mountain region characterized by a monsoon climate. Soil erosion in the YP is recognized as a major environmental problem. Rainfall is abundant in the YP but distributed unevenly on a spatiotemporal scale. However, little published work is available on rainfall erosivity (R factor) in t...

Gully erosion in the Black Soil Region of China has posed a threat to food security. This study aimed to determine the spatial distribution and morphologic characteristics of gullies in the region and their topographic thresholds. A 28 km2 watershed was surveyed and 117 gullies measured. The results showed that: (1) Gullies were distributed equally...

The black soil region of northeastern China supplies more than half of the total grain market in China but has been suffering from accelerated soil erosion from more than 100 years under cultivation. To assess yield response to soil erosion, a new method for gradually simulating eroded soil profiles was developed for experimentation with potted soy...

Greater increases in temperature are expected in high mountain regions than the global average making mountain soils a potentially vulnerable component of the global carbon cycle. Little is known about the spatial distribution and environmental factors controlling soil carbon in mountainous regions. This study analyzed the spatial patterns of soil...

Soil loss tolerance (T) is the maximum rate of annual soil erosion that is tolerated and still allows a high level of crop productivity to be sustained economically and indefinitely. In the black soil region of Northeast China, an empirically determined, default T value of 200 (t/km2·a) is used for designing land restoration strategies for differen...

China's northeastern Black Soil Region, one of the country's most important crop production areas, has been seriously affected by soil erosion. This study evaluated the effects of soil erosion on the long-term productivity of this region. We used a modified productivity index (MPI) model (MPI is a number between 0 and 1, with 1 indicating highest p...

In this work, 23 black soil profiles were surveyed and 113 soil samples were collected to determine the field capacity (FC) of the black soil in Northeast China. The effectiveness of three methods measuring FC, the Wilcox method (WM), the undisturbed soil pressure plate method (PUM) and the air-dried sieved soil pressure plate method (PDM) were com...

The objective of this paper is to investigate a simple and practical method for soil productivity assessment in the black soil region of Northeast China. Firstly, eight kinds of physicochemical properties for each of 120 soil samples collected from 25 black soil profiles were analyzed using cluster and correlation analysis. Subsequently, parameter...