financially supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB40000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41672349,40802084);Hong Kong Research Grants Council(17325516)。
One of the Holocene abrupt events around 4200 years ago,lasting for~200 years,is thought to have caused cultural disruptions,yet terrestrial climatic status right after the cold/dry event remains poorly defined and is...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41572040);the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (2015CB856105)
Ultrahigh-pressure (UHP)metamorphism plays important roles in continental dynamics.Understanding of this process has been enhanced by the discovery of coesite and micro-diamond from supracrustal rocks [1].Such UHP min...
supported by theNational Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China(41125002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41271036)
Water balance and migration characteristics are vital to the establishment of an efficient irrigation management system. Based on the observed data including microclimate and growing parameters of maize from 2009 to 2...
The East Junggar is an important part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt(CAOB).Using in situ zircon dating and Hf isotopic analysis by LA-ICP-MS and MC-ICP-MS,respectively,a detrital zircon of 4040 Ma age was found in...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA05130202);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX2-YW-Q1-04);the Special Basic Research Project(2007FY110200);the National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB950203)
Cognition and symbolic thinking are viewed as important features of modern human behavior.Engraved objects are seen as a hallmark of cognition and symbolism,and even as evidence for language.Accumulated evidences incl...
supported by the Knowledge Innova-tion Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-Q1-04);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA05130202);the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB950203)
Intra-site spatial analysis provides an alternative perspective for understanding the functions of a site, and the occupational organization of early human living and activities associated with it. We examined feature...
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 ...
Supported by the International Partnership Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. CXTD-Z2005-2);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.4052501);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2005CB42 2003);Innovation Research Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. kzcx2-yw-310)
Based on the data of δ18O in precipitation during the period of April 2006 through May 2007 in the upper catchment of the main stream of the Heihe River in the Qilian Mountains, we found that there existed an evident...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40571023);the Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Disserta-tion of China for Dr. Xiao-Yan Li (Grant No. 200426);the National Key Tech-nologies R&D Program (Grant No. 2006BAD26B07)
Little work has been done on stemflow for desert shrubs in China. This study measured stemflow in two shrubs of Salix psammophila C. Wang et Chang Y. Yang and Artemisia sphaerocephala Krasch in Mu Us sandy land and es...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40671045, 40611120140 and 40401054);the Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-317);the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2005CB422004)
This paper presents the stable isotope data of the snow pack and summer precipitation collected at the July 1 Glacier, Qilian Mountains in northwest China and analyses their relationships with meteorologi- cal factors...