Under the auspices of National Basic Research Program of China(No.2012CB956100);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41301085).
The rapid invasion of the plant Spartina alterniflora in coastal wetland areas can threaten the capacity of their soils to store carbon(C),nitrogen(N),and sulfur(S).In this study,we investigated the spatial and tempor...
Under the auspices of National Basic Research Program of China(No.2010CB95090103);Technological Basic Research Program of China(No.2013FY111800)
Wetland databases can provide the basic data that necessary for the protection and management of wetlands. A large number of wetland databases have been established in the world as well as in China. In this paper, we ...
upported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51278487);the Major National Water Pollution Control and Management Project of China (Nos. 2012ZX07403-003-03, 2008ZX07421-001);the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2009CB421103);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-EW-410-05)
Shijiuyang Constructed Wetland(110 hm^2) is a drinking water source treatment wetland with primary structural units of ponds and plant-bed/ditch systems. The wetland can process about 250,000 tonnes of source water ...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41371062);Collaborative Innovation Center for Major Ecological Security Issues of Jiangxi Province and Monitoring Implementation(No.JXS-EW-00);National Basic Research Program of China(No.2012CB417003);Science Foundation of Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.NIGLAS2012135001)
Hydrological regime has been widely recognized as one of the major forces determining vegetation distribution in seasonally flooded wetland. Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, has been encountering dra...
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,No.XDB03030500;The National Key Technology Research and Development Program,No.2013BAC04B02,No.2012BAC06B00;The Key Foundation Project of Basic Work of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,No.2012FY111400
About 80% of global wetland resources are degrading or disappearing; thus the wetland ecosystem has become one of the most seriously threatened ecosystems in the world. As an area sensitive to global changes and actin...
financial support of the Asia–Pacific Network for Global Change Research project (reference number: ARCP2011-15NMYZhen);Technical Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2013BAC03B04);the Key Project for the Strategic Science Plan of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 2012ZD007)
Increasing human activities have contributed to global climate change, and thus resulted in a downward trend in the number of species and population sizes of migratory birds. This trend is closely related to a reducti...
Acknowledgements We cordially thank Dr. Xuefeng Wang and Mr. Xiumin Yan (Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, China) for their help with the field sampling, Mr. Dehua Mao (Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, China) for providing the research site map, and Prof. Jun Yang and Dr. Yangmin Qin for helpful suggestions for improvement and species identifications. We are also deeply grateful to Dr. Louise Loudermilk (Forest Service Station of USDA, USA) and Dr. Mark Judson (Mus6um National d'HistoireNaturelle, France) for comments on the manuscript and English language revisions. Lastly, we thank three anonymous reviewers for constructive comments that helped improve the manuscript. Financial assistance was provided by the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2012CB956103 and 2010CB951304), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41371261), and the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams (KZZD-EW-TZ-07).
Testate amoebae are sensitive indicators of substrate moisture in peaflands. Over the last decades, they have been studied to reconstruct hydrological changes since the Holocene. However, these studies have been geogr...
Under the auspices of the National Key Basic Research Program of China(2012CB417001);National Natural Science Foundation of China(40801045);Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(2009CDB138)
The Dajiuhu wetland,a famous sub-alpine wetland located in the the Shennongjia Mountains,north-subtropical region of Central China,has suffered from adverse impacts of unsustainable human practices over the past 60 ye...
Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40830535, 41001110, 41101092, 41171092);National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2010CB951304);the CAS/SAFEA (Chinese Academy of Sciences/State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs) International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, Eleventh Five-Year' Key Technological Projects of Heilongjiang Province Farm Bureau (No. HNK10A-10-01, HNK10A-10-03)
Runoff change and trend of the Naoli River Basin were studied through the time series analysis using the data from the hydrological and meteorological stations. Time series of hydrological data were from 1957 to 2009 ...
Supported by National Basic Research Program of China:"Coupling Mechanism of Aquatic Eco-process and Pattern of Wetland System"(2006CB403301);Doctoral Initiation Project of Hanshan Normal University:"Study on Evolution of Wetland Landscape Pattern in the Middle Reaches of the Huaihe Valley"~~
Relief map of the middle reaches of the Huaihe Valley in 1950s, remote sensing images of 1980 and 2000 are utilized to abstract and interpret land use maps of the study area in different periods and also the distribut...