Also: desert greening, biological soil crusts, Grain-for-Green
Large-scale and experimental efforts to restore degraded land and drylands.
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Fu and colleagues reviewed decades of terracing, revegetation and check dams on China's Loess Plateau, calling it China's most successful ecological restoration zone, while noting reduced runoff and sediment downstream.
As reported in: Fu, Wang, Liu et al. (2017). Hydrogeomorphic Ecosystem Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Changes in the Loess Plateau of China. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020552
Velasco Ayuso and colleagues developed a greenhouse nursery process to grow multispecies biological soil crusts from local remnants for restoring degraded dryland soils in the U.S. Southwest.
As reported in: Velasco Ayuso, Giraldo Silva, Nelson et al. (2017). Microbial Nursery Production of High-Quality Biological Soil Crust Biomass for Restoration of Degraded Dryland Soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. doi:10.1128/aem.02179-16
Wang, Fu, Piao and colleagues attributed the roughly 90% decline in Yellow River sediment load over 60 years to changes on the Loess Plateau, largely human activities.
As reported in: Wang, Fu, Piao et al. (2015). Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes. Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/ngeo2602