supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF0801803);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42161144008).
Trading water for carbon has cautioned large-scale afforestation in global drylands.However,model simulations suggested that the consumption of soil water could be partially offset by increasing precipitation due to v...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41772373 and 42001080)。
Intensified human activities during the last several thousands of years have been identified globally[1].About 4000 years ago,Chinese Neolithic cultures collapsed and were succeeded by Bronze Age culture[2],which was ...
supported by the National Key Research&Development Program of China(2018YFA06064);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0601);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41825001 and 41991251)。
Fire has crucial effects on ecosystem succession,the carbon cycle,and atmospheric chemical composition[1-3].Previous studies have shown that fire dynamics are closely related to regional vegetation and climate.Arid Ce...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFA0606400);he Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB40000000);the 2nd Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (2019QZKK0101);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y201681);partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41888101);the National Social Science Foundation of China (18ZDA172);the National Science Foundation of United States (NSF 1702816, EAR-0908792, and EAR-1211299);a part of the ‘‘Belt & Road” Project of the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS)。
Arid Central Asia(ACA), with its diverse landscapes of high mountains, oases, and deserts, hosted the central routes of the Silk Roads that linked trade centers from East Asia to the eastern Mediterranean.Ecological p...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB956203);the China Meteorological Administration R&D Special Fund for Public Welfare(Meteorology)(GYHY201006023);the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(2012BAC22B04)
Based on Climatic Research Unit Time Series3.1 temperature and Global Precipitation Climatology Center full data reanalysis version 6 precipitation data,the abilities of climate models from the fifth phase of the Coup...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41202183, 40872162 and 40672171);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (2012T50136 and 20110490581)
In groundwater-dependent ecosystems, groundwater circulation controls the overall water quality and ecosystem dynamics. Groundwater and vegetation across a 30-km groundwater transect linking oasis, desert and river in...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41225001);the National Key Project of Scientific and Technical Supporting Program(2012BAC19B09)
Based on a database of 106 annually resolved tree-ring chronologies and 244 Palmer Drought Severity Index(PDSI)grid data,we attempted to reconstruct gridded spatial drought patterns in each year over the past four cen...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40971002 and 41101003)
Upfreezing is an important geomorphic process in the periglacial environment.It is a product of cold climate and thus an important part of the cryospheric processes.Based on the long-term positioning observations in t...
Supported by the Fund for Creative Research Groups,National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40721061);Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No. 20060730003)
A 1000-year high-resolution(~10 years) chironomid record from varved sediments of Sugan Lake,Qaidam Basin on the northern Tibetan Plateau,is presented.The chironomid assemblages are mainly composed of the relatively ...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40301006)
There have been significant variations in wind activity over the past five decades in arid and semiarid areas in China.High wind activity occurred from the 1960s to the 1970s,but wind activity has de-creased continuou...