supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91025002,30970492);the National Key Technology Research&Development Program(2012BAC08B05);the Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZZD-EW-04-05)
Long-term temperature variability has significant effects on runoff into the upper reaches of inland rivers. This paper developed a tree-ring chronology of Qilian juniper (Sabina przewalskii Kom.) from the upper tree-...
supported by the Cooperation-Innovation Team Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30970492 and 91025002)
In the Shulehe River Basin, policy of resettlement was very effective in handling agricultural development and livelihood problems in regions of poverty limited by topography, climate, or infrastructure. Thus, since 1...
supported by the Cooperation-Innovation team project of Chinese Academy of Sciences;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30970492 and No. 91025002).
It is widely accepted that there is an economic progress beyond the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while global GDP has increased more than three-fold since 1950, whereas ecosystems have been largely occupied and dep...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31400392,91025002,31370466);the Foundation for Excellent Youth Scholars of CAREERI,CAS (Y451111001);a General Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M552516)
Theory suggests that with sufficient environmental variation, pollen limitation might be observed at some places or times, and resource limitation at others, but there are no empirical data about the effect of seasona...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91025002)
Understanding the factors that drive variation in species distribution is a central theme of ecological research. Although several studies focused on alpine vegetation, few efforts have been made to identify the envir...