supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grants number 32220103010,32192431,31722013,32101587,32271571);the National Key R&D Program of China(2020YFA0608100);the Major Program of Institute of Applied Ecology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(IAEMP202201);Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Major Project(2023JH1/10400001).
A decline in tree growth has occurred in numerous regions over recent decades and is associated with enhanced water deficits driven by climate warming.This phenomenon may be more noticeable at lower latitudes with hig...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0502);a grant from Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects(Grant#202201BC070001);a Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program“Young Talent”Project and a CAS Scholarship to Liang Zhang.
The Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot is renowned for its rich biodiversity,including that of vascular plants.However,the fern diversity and its endemism in this hotspot have not been well understood and so far,the dive...
Off-grid solar cooking in the developed and developing regions of the world is becoming one response to climate change that causes wood-fuel shortages and an increase in cost of coal, gas, and electricity production a...
supported by the National Key R&D Programs of China(2019YFA0405000,2022YFF0503800,2022YFF0503000);the Strategic Priority Research Programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB0560000,XDB41000000);the National Natural Science Foundations of China(NSFC,Grant Nos.12173005,12273060,12350004,12273061,12222306,and 12073001);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS,and Yunnan Academician Workstation of Wang Jingxiu(No.202005AF150025)。
The polar magnetic fields of the Sun play an important role in governing solar activity and powering fast solar wind.However,because our view of the Sun is limited in the ecliptic plane,the polar regions remain largel...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA26040202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41173083);SL was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32001165);the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province(2022NSFSC1753)。
Potassium(K),calcium(Ca),and magnesium(Mg)are essential elements with important physiological functions in plants.Previous studies showed that leaf K,Ca,and Mg concentrations generally increase with increasing latitud...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42175072);Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA2010030804)。
It is known that different relationships exist between the strength and displacement of the stratospheric polar vortex(SPV),and the surface air temperature(SAT)patterns in Eurasia and North America,but the mechanisms ...
supported by Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia through Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2023/STG01/TAYLOR/02/1);Taylor’s University for the support for this project
With the present day rise of interest in acquiring sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry,there has been an emphasis on finding natural resources to replace the use of synthetic compounds used in products.Micro...
The Arctic climate system has changed rapidly during recent decades with a two-four times faster warming rate than the global average subject to the uncertainties of analysis datasets and approaches.These changes have...
Funding for this work was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42122037,42105016,41975047).
Excessive exposure to ultraviolet(UV)radiation harms humans and ecosystems.The level of surface UV radiation had increased due to declines in stratospheric ozone in the late 1970s in response to emissions of chloroflu...
Man-made environments such as tropical hydroelectric reservoirs alter the preexisting carbon (C) cycle and remove C from circulation through burial in sediments. Carbon burial (CB) was measured using the silica-tracer...