supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2010CB950504);the National High-tech R&D Program of China(Grant No.2013AA122003);the open funds of the Key Laboratory of Land Surface Process and Climate Change in Cold and Arid Regions,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.LPCC201101)
The default fractional vegetation cover and terrain height were replaced by the estimated fractional vegetation cover, which was calculated by the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of Earth Observing Sys...
supported by the CAS Innovation Key Program (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-BR-14);National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB309704);Special Scientific Research Project for Public Interest (GrantNo. GYHY201006021);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40890155, 40775051,U0733002)
Using the latest daily observational rainfall datasets for the period 1961–2008, the present study investigates the interannual variability of June–September (JJAS) mean rainfall in northern China. The regional ch...
supported by Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program, 2009CB421303);Youth Foundation Project;National Natural Science Foundation of China (40901049);West Light Doctor Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (O828881001)
This experiment was conducted in three sites along a desertification gradient in Horqin Sandy Land, Northern China. Soils una-mended and amended with five types of plant residue in a wide range of C:N ratios from 9.9...
Project supported by the National Key Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (No. 2007CB106804);the PhD candidate Training Program (No. 20060730027);the "111" Project from the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA);the Ministry of Education of China
To show the vegetation succession interaction with soil properties, microbial biomass, basal respiration, and enzyme activities in different soil layers (0-60 cm) were determined in six lands, i.e., 2-, 7-, 11-, 20-...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30500076);the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2007CB714407);the President Foundation of Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.YZJJ200205)
The study developed an integrated reflectance model combining radiative transfer and geometric optical properties in order to inverse leaf area index(LAI) of semiarid natural grasslands.In order to better link remote ...
T his paper was supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of People's Republic of China(G1999011708);the Key Laboratory Visiting Scholar Foundation of Chinese Education Ministry.
The greatest fear of global climate change is drought since in most areas where wheat is grown water is the most important factor influencing wheat yield. Average wheat yield throughout the world is only 30-60% of the...