Chinese Institutes Generate High-Resolution Snow Cover Dataset

Effect of Afforestation on Soil Fungal Community Structures is Greater Than Spatial Distance

Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) conducted a study by investigating the variations of soil fungal diversity and community structures under afforestation in Nanliu River Basin, where paddy field and dry farmland were converted t...

Freezing-Thawing Attenuation Coefficient Helps Evaluate Dynamic Characteristics of Frozen Surbage Soil

Chinese researchers recently investigated the evolution features of dynamic stiffness parameters in the small strain range to determine the effects of freeze-thaw cycles on the dynamic responses of frozen subgrade soil, which could provide a useful and important reference for assessing the degeneration of engineerin...

Precipitation Pattern and Vegetation Cover Type Affect Deep Percolation and Groundwater Recharge

Chinese researchers recently found that the interaction between precipitation pattern and vegetation cover type affect deep percolation and groundwater recharge in semi-arid sandy land.

Radar Remote Sensing Reveals Magnitudes and Patterns of Large-scale Permafrost Ground Deformation

Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a MODIS-Land-Surface-Temperature-Integrated InSAR approach to reconstruct the permafrost-related ground deformation, and they observed widespread seasonal and long-term ground deformation on t...

Agronomic Modification Promotes Utilization of Sand Rice Healthy Values

A research group from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed the hypothesis of the domestication of sand rice and systematically summarized the related research results from the nutritional value and de novo domestication perspectives.

Researchers Reveal Sorption Process of U(VI) on Microbial-Clay Minerals Composites Surface

Chinese researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environmental Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has systematically studied the enrichment behavior of uranium (U) on kaolinite- and illite-Aspergillus niger composites, and clarified the regulatory pathways and mechanisms of Aspergillus niger o...

Researchers Release Biophysical Permafrost Zonation Map in the Northern Hemisphere

Chinese researchers from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) produced a new permafrost zonation map using the rule-based GIS model, integrating the high accuracy permafrost extent, climate conditions, vegetation structure, soil conditions, and topographic conditi...