Where the Wind Wins: How Wind‐Eroded Patches Expand in Semi‐Arid Sandlands
Photo 1. Drone view of the study region (in the northeast Mu Us Sandland, northern China) showing bare wind-eroded patches in the landscape. Photo credit: Xuehua Ye. Photo 2. Artemisia ordosica communities within a matrix of bare soil in the survey area. Photo credit: Shudong Zhang. Photo 3. Winter view (December) of the survey area. Photo credit: Shudong Zhang. Photo 4. Example of a wind-eroded desertified patch. Photo credit: Xuehua Ye. These photographs illustrate the article “Positive feedback between wind-eroded patch size, plant recruitment failure and desertification in semi-arid sandlands” by Shudong Zhang, Xuehua Ye, Guofang Liu, Zhenying Huang, and J. Hans C. Cornelissen published in Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70040
Authors
- Johannes H. C. Cornelissen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2346-1585)
- Shudong Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1561-4262)
- Zhenying Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1309-8591)
- Xuehua Ye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5625-9877)
- Guofang Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7746-7539)
Institutions
- Health First (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
- Published
- 2025-06-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70024
- Primary Topic
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Key Research and Development Program of China