financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42461011, 42071014);the Fellowship of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M703466)
The Golmud-Korla Railway in the Gobi area faces operational challenges due to sand hazards,caused by strong and variable winds.This study addresses these challenges by conducting wind tunnel tests to evaluate the prot...
financially supported by the Chang Jiang Scholar and Innovation Team Development Plan of China(IRT_15R29);the Basic Research Innovation Group Project of Gansu Province,China(21JR7RA347);the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province,China(20JR10RA231)。
The Milan Gobi area of the Golmud-Korla Railway in northwest China is located in the lower dispersal area of the mountain pass and has strong winds with evident double wind direction characteristics.This study introdu...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42071014).
Gobi spans a large area of China,surpassing the combined expanse of mobile dunes and semi-fixed dunes.Its presence significantly influences the movement of sand and dust.However,the complex origins and diverse materia...
funded by Prague Zoo,the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences(IGA-20213104);Nadace"Nadani Josefa,Marie a Zdenky Hlavkovych."。
Analyzing social networks is a powerful tool for understanding the ecology of social species.While most studies focus on the role of each group member,few compare groups with different characteristics.The current popu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41901011,41730644 and 41871018);the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification,Chinese Academy of Sciences(KLDD-2019-002);the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Desertification and Aeolian Sand Disaster Combating(GSDC201903).
Wind-blown sand over sandy gobi with an abundant sediment supply can cause severe sand hazards.However,compared with the study of aeolian transport over gravel gobi with a limited sediment supply,less attention has be...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41730644,41901011&41771010)。
The Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway(HSR)traverses areas of the Gobi Desert where extremely strong winds are frequent.These strong winds cause sand/gravel hazards,an unaddressed issue that often seriously compromis...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41630747).
The Gobi deserts are important landscapes and major sandstorm source areas in arid northwestern China.Unsaturated sand flow and decreasing sand supply capacity is well known as the basic characteristics of gobi surfac...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41630747).
During aeolian processes,the two most critical factors related to dust emissions are soil particle and aggregate saltation,which greatly affect the vertical profiles of near-surface dust concentrations.In this study,w...
National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41930640,No.41771014;The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research,No.2019QZKK1003。
The history of dune landform changes and dust activity at mid-latitudes is a good archive for exploring environmental changes and related landscape response.In this study,the dynamic changes,material sources,dust acti...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31761143001,31870316);the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing(7202109);Minzu University of China(KLEMZZ201904,KLEM-ZZ201906,YLDXXK201819);the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China(2019HB2096001006);Jiansheng Fresh Herb Medicine R&D Foundation(JSYY-20190101-043);the Ministry of Education of China(B08044);Colleagues and Dr.Bayartungalag from the institute of Geography and Geoecology,Mongolian Academy of Sciences provided assistances in the field surveys.Yingjie Song at Minzu University of China provided useful comments.We are grateful to all of them.
Cistanche deserticola is an important medicinal plant in Mongolia.Despite its significant role in local healing systems,little traditional knowledge had been reported.The present study investigated folk names of C.des...