National Natural Science Fund of China (31200376);Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists (2013T2Z0011)
Xinghua Duotian Agrosystem is a raised ifeld agriculture system with typical water-land utilization. It was identiifed as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) site by FAO in April 2014. Based o...
National Natural Science Fund of China(31200376);Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists(2013T2Z0011)
In recent years, with climate change, many agricultural systems are facing severe environmental stress, which are seriously threatening the food security and sustainable development of agricultural system. Although ma...
Hani rice terraces system is one of the Globaly Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) pilot sites selected by FAO. Soil nutrients are an important symbol of soil fertility, and play an important role in th...
Acknowledgements We would like to thank the professors and staff at the University of California, Riverside, who helped with this project, including Dr. Lanny Lurid, who initiated this project in the early 1980's; Carl Nilson, who dedicated his efforts to observing the field soil temperature over the last 20 years; Chris Amrhein, Dave Thomason, and Fred Ernst for their assistance in the field and in the laboratory. Recent funding for this work came from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31200376) and Key Project for the Strategic Science Plan in IGSNRR, CAS (2012ZD007).
Soil temperature plays an important role in physical, biological, and microbiological processes occur- ring in the soil, but it is rarely reported as an indicator of climate change. A long-term soil temperature databa...