supported by the Key Research and Development Plan of Ning Xia Province,China(Grant No.2020BBF02003);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41877540);the Visiting Scholar Research Program of China Scholarship Council(Grant No.201804910131);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research program(2019QZKK0305).
As a linkage between plants and soil,litter decomposition and its effect on nutrient recirculation have an important ecolog‐ical significance as they contribute to soil structure improvement and the restoration of de...
funded by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFC0404305);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41801015,No.41771252);the Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars of Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources NIEER Chinese Academy of Sciences,CAS(No.51Y851D61);the Major Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu province,China(No.18JR4RA002);Science and Technology Program of Gansu Province,China(18JR2RA026);the Chinese Academy of Sciences-The World Academy of Sciences(CAS-TWAS)President's Fellowship programme。
Rainfall variability dominates livelihoods in all countries of Saharan Africa.To better understand the processes involved in Sahara precipitation changes,we used the Global Precipitation Climatology Center(GPCC)datase...
We dedicate this paper to the memory of Prof.ZiChu Xie,who passed away in early 2020.Prof.ZiChu Xie was an inspirational mentor and friend.This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China(41772373,41372181);the Hunan Provincial Natural Science foundation of China(2018JJ1017);the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0606404);and the Construction Program for First-Class Disciplines(Geography)of Hunan Province,China(5010002).We thank Dr.Jan Bloemendal for improving the English language.
Holoceneδ^18O records from various archives(ice cores,cave stalagmites,and peat sediments)from the Xinjiang region of northwestern China,in arid central Asia(ACA),are all derived ultimately from local precipitationδ...
jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China projects(Grant No.41471359);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2016375)
The implementation of integrated landscape management to support local and regional human well-being is crucial in arid regions,but its application to date is very limited.Although analytical frameworks have been esta...
supported by funds from the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC0500909);the TU-ITP and the MRA programs from Tottori University;SAKURA Exchange Program in Science from the Japan Science and Technology Agency
Biological soil crusts(BSCs) play important roles in the carbon(C) balance in arid regions. Net C balance of BSCs is strongly dependent on rainfall and consequent activation of microbes in the BSCs. The compensation-r...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41771035 and41161012);Northwest Normal University(No.NWNU-LKQN-15-8);State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences(No.SKLCS-OP-2017-04)
The Tianshan Mountains is a wet island in arid central Asia, and precipitation amount across the mountains is much larger than that in the surrounding low-lying areas. To investigate the regional water cycle in arid c...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project 40771079 and 41471024)
Oases in arid northwestern China play a significant role in the region's economic stability and development. Overex- ploitation of the region's water resources has led to serious environmental consequences. In oases...
funded through a FNDR grant from the Chilean Government
Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) becomes increasingly important in arid watersheds, where water resources are scarce and demands are rising under increased population pressure. In this case study, we pres...
supported by the Western Project Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.KZCX-XB2-04-04,KZCX2-XB2-09-6)
Water resources of inland river basins of arid Northwest China will be profoundly affected by future accelerated glacier melt. Based on scenarios of climate warming, accelerated glacier melt and socioeconomic developm...
supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (Grant No. 40830957)
With data from the project Collaborative Observation of Semi-arid/Arid Regions in North China, collected during July and September 2008, the spatial patterns of land surface processes over arid and semiarid regions ha...