jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42361024,42101030,42261079,and 41961058);the Talent Project of Science and Technology in Inner Mongolia of China(NJYT22027 and NJYT23019);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Inner Mongolia Normal University,China(2022JBBJ014 and 2022JBQN093)。
Gross primary productivity(GPP)of vegetation is an important constituent of the terrestrial carbon sinks and is significantly influenced by drought.Understanding the impact of droughts on different types of vegetation...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41972092);the Third Xinjiang Scientific Expedition Program (No.2022xjkk1303)。
INTRODUCTION The vast arid regions in mid-latitude Asia(MLA)are among the most prominent landscapes on Earth’s surface and have been thought to provide a key source of global atmospheric dust(Hovan et al.,1989).Over ...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.31772435,32170455);C.-M.S.is also supported by a starting fund from Hebei Agricultural University and the State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation(YJ2020028).
A comprehensive understanding of phylogeography requires the integration of knowledge across different organisms,ecosystems,and geographic regions.However,a critical knowledge gap exists in the arid biota of the vast ...
This study attempts to understand the biogeographic history of the western Ghats forests by investigating decoupling between phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity.We specifically test whether the deciduous forests have...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2011CB403003);the College Innovation Research Program of Gansu Province(Grant No.2020B320);the College Innovation Foundation of Gansu Province(Grant No.S202013933013)。
Global climate during the Jurassic has been commonly described as a uniform greenhouse climate for a long time.However,the climate scenario of a cool episode during the Callovian-Oxfordian transition following by a wa...
Mexico is considered an exceptional biogeographic area with a varied endemic flora, however spatial phylogenetic measures of biodiversity have not yet been estimated to understand how its flora assembled to form the c...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41571188,41671191,41690111&40971004)
The Xiashu loess is a typical Quaternary eolian deposit in southem China and represents an important terrestrial paleoclimate archive in this low-latitude monsoon region. However, the chronological framework of Xiashu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41302144&41130102);the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(111 Project)(Grant No.B06026);the Open Foundation of MOE Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental System,Lanzhou University(Grant No.LZUJBKY-2013-BT01)
The tempo-spatial development of the Cenozoic Asian aridification across the Eocene-Oligocene and its controlling factors are important scientific topics in Earth Sciences, which are pertinent to regional and global t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41330745,41171014&41271017);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
Thirty-five years ago, the idea of a young Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau was proposed based on a comprehensive investigation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. This hypothesis suggested that the plateau began to rise from a pl...
supported by Foundation of Geological Survey of China (no.1212011121261);the National Natural Science Foundation (no.40902049);the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences (no.GBL11307)
The northeastern Tibetan Plateau is located at the convergence of the Asian winter and summer monsoons and westerlies; thus, this area has witnessed historic climate changes.The Xunhua basin is an intermontane basin o...