Chinese Researcher Spends over 30 Years Compiling Atlas of 8,000-meter Peaks

Tree-ring Records Reveal Asian Monsoon Variability

Chinese researchers along with international colleagues recently reported a 6,700-year-long, precisely dated and well-calibrated tree-ring stable isotope chronology from the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau. It reveals full-frequency precipitation variability in the Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) from interannual to multimi...

Scientists Release 1-km Resolution Soil Organic Carbon Dataset for Frozen Ground in the Third Pole

This study uses a machine-learning approach to evaluate the SOC storage and spatial distribution at a depth interval of 0-3 m in the frozen ground area of the Third Pole region.

Scientists Reveal Effects of Biotic and Abiotic Factors on Stemflow Production in Woody Ecosystems

Stemflow has been increasingly recognized as an indispensable component in water and nutrient budgets within vegetated ecosystem. This study aims to quantify the stemflow percentage of incident precipitation at a global scale, and to provide a systematic evaluation on how biotic and abiotic factors affect stemflow.

Chinese Experience in Desert Control Helps Green the World

Young Tissues with Weak Water Potential Adjustment Capacity of Desert Shrubs are More Sensitive to Drought

In a study published in Science of the Total Environment, researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) investigated the water potential adjustment capacity and sensitivity of different tissues in two desert shrubs.

Reduced Microbial Stability Linked to Soil Carbon Loss in Active Layer under Alpine Permafrost Degradation

The researchers, headed by Prof. CHEN Shengyun from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and XUE Kai from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted a combined in-depth analysis of soil microbial communities and their co-occurrence networks in the act...

Covering Soil Substrate on Sand Surface Helps Colonization and Development of Artificial Biological Soil Crusts

researchers from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) investigated the effects of four soil substrates collected from the southeast edge of the temperate Tengger Desert in northern China on the colonization and development of artificial BSCs.