Abstract
Abstract Soil water is the limiting factor that determines ecosystem development in arid and semi-arid regions. Thus, determining the relationships between soil water and vegetation can inform the restoration of vegetation and water resource management. However, these relationships have not been fully investigated at the regional scale. In this study, field observations were conducted in two typical vegetation zones of the Loess Plateau of China: forest-steppe and semi-arid steppe zones. Variation in soil water content (SWC) and vegetation characteristics (plant density and species richness) in addition to their correlations were analyzed in grasslands and forestlands (occupied by black locust) in each zone. SWC, plant density, and species richness in the forest-steppe zone were significantly higher than those in the semi-arid steppe zone (p
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