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.

Researchers Identify Molecular Mechanism of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Sand Rice

In a study published in Plant Biotechnology Reports, researchers from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) employed comparative transcriptome across different tissues in sand rice to identify putative functional genes and profile their expression patterns,...

Artificial Neural Network Assists in Determining the Thermal Conductivity of Clay

researchers from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) analyzed the influential factors of the thermal conductivity of soils during the freezing process and developed a predictive model of thermal conductivity with an artificial neural network (ANN) technol...

A New Mitigation Structure Assists in Protecting Permafrost Subgrade of Tibet Plateau

Recently, a research team from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) designed a new mitigation structure (NMS) to improve the cooling capacity of the CRR and to counter the pore-filling of the rock layer.