supported by the Third Xinjiang Scientific Expedition and Research(Grant No.2021xjkk0805);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41790424);NSFC-DFG Mobility(Grant No.M0468)。
Inland lakes in arid Central Asia are particularly susceptible to the impact of climate change and human activities.Ebinur Lake,the largest salt inland lake in Xinjiang,Northwest China,has experienced rapid shrinkage,...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41988101&42101149);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2018YFA0606404).
Since Shi et al.proposed that the climate in the drylands of Northwest China experienced a significant transition from a“warming and drying”trend to a“warming and wetting”trend in the 1980s,researchers have conduc...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2018YFA0606404);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41877446)。
Increased precipitation/humidity in Northwest China is an important scientific issue in the context of global climatic warming(Chen et al.,2019).The climate of Northwest China is dominated by the westerly circulation ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41530752,41877148,41501016&91125010);the Scherer Endowment Fund of Department of Geography,Western Michigan University。
Accurate monitoring of soil moisture is crucial in hydrological and ecological studies.Cosmic-ray neutron sensors(CRNS)measure area-average soil moisture at field scale,filling a spatial scale gap between in-situ obse...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road(Pan-TPE)(Grand No.XDA20090000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grand No.41771016);NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography(SWOT)Program(Grand No.NNX16A85G).
Over a hundred sizable lakes,some even larger than^1 km2,are distributed across the lowlands between megadunes in the southeastern Badain Jaran Desert(BJD),northwest China.With rather limited precipitation and hardly ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41672023 & 41772025)
Hominin-animal interactions at Pleistocene archaeological sites have been the main subject of research during human evolution. However, in contrast to that of ungulates, little is known about the evidence of human pro...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41630426 & 4170506);the Youth Fund Projects of Science and Technology from Gansu Province (Grant No. 17JR5RA342)
Extending across three major plateaus,namely the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau,the Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang Plateau and the Loess Plateau,Northwest China has the complex terrain and spatio-temporal climate variations,and is ...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2018YFA0606402);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road(Pan-TPE)(Grant No.XDA2004010101);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41825001&41620104007)
The reconstruction of high-resolution chronologies for prehistoric cultures is a prerequisite for understanding the history of human evolution and its relationship with environmental change, and is valuable for explor...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41722206, 41430531, 41690114 & 41374072);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB26000000);the International Cooperation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 131C11KYSB20160061)
The Eocene was marked by significant cooling during which the global climate was transformed from greenhouse to icehouse conditions. Notable coeval events were the India-Asia collision and the retreat of the Paratethy...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2014FY210500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41372187)
The Lop Nur region, in the east part of Tarim Basin, was an important transportation junction between west and east,north and south Eurasia. However, previous studies on prehistoric human activity have concentrated mo...