About the Authors

Liangxin Fan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, China

Guobin Liu

gbliu@ms.iswc.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education, Yangling, China

Fei Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education, Yangling, China

Violette Geissen

Affiliation Soil Science Centre, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Coen J. Ritsema

Affiliation Soil Science Centre, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL CJR. Performed the experiments: LF FW. Analyzed the data: LF VG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VG. Wrote the paper: GL LF. Supervised the experiments: GL.