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Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B Soil and Plant Science, 2011; 61: 1 13 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Effects of land use on temporal-spatial variability of soil water and soil-water conservation 1,2,3 4 1,5 6 CHEN ZENG , MINGAN SHAO , QUANJIU WANG JUN ZHANG 1State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, China, 2Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China, 3Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China, 4Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, 5Institute of Water Resources, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China, 6Temple University, CORE 3223 N. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA Abstract The Loess Plateau of China suffers serious soil erosion primarily resulting from irrational land uses. Soil water plays a critical role influencing vegetation-restoration processes, but varies with temporal and spatial characteristics, of concern to many researchers. However, few studies consider the influence of deep soil water and varied weather patterns in a semi-arid region. Four vegetation types chosen for this study include artificial caragana shrubland, artificial alfalfa grassland, naturally restored vegetation land (Artemisia capillaries, Agropyron chistatum, Heteropapus altaicus Novop, Stipa bungeana, Stipa breviflora griseb and Lespedeza davurica), and bare land. Soil-water content at the top 400 cm depth was monitored continu