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Scientists Reveal the Influencing Factors of the Pipelines Service Life in Qaidam Basin
Recently, a research group led by Prof. LAI Yuanming from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the corrosion behavior of cast iron in silty clay by using electrochemical measurements, Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Diffraction.
2020-01-07 -
Scientists Reveal Different Contributions of Bacteria and Fungi During Biological Soil Crust Succession
Recently, scientists from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences used GeoChip 5.0 to analyze differences in functional genes between bacterial and fungal communities involved in C and N metabolism of BSCs along a revegetation chronosequence in the Tengger Dese...
2020-01-02 -
Scientists Analyze Heavy Metal Contamination Caused by Oil Spills in the Bohai Sea
Recently, scientists from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explored heavy metal contamination caused by oil spills in the Bohai Sea by using bulk geochemical parameters and hydrocarbon compositions.
2019-12-30 -
Scientists Reveal Ecological Effects of a Long-Term Oasis Protection System
Recently, scientist from Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Science evaluated the long-term ecological effects of establishing an oasis protection system on vegetation and soil properties along a protection gradient in a typical desert-oasis ecotone of northwestern...
2019-12-27 -
2018 Glacier Inventory of Alaska Dataset Is Released
2018 Glacier Inventory of Alaska was formally released by the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Lanzhou on Dec. 22. It updates the glacial distribution data of Alaska.
2019-12-23 -
Scientists Reveal the Morphological and Sedimentary Characteristics of Dome Dunes
Oval dome dunes, which lack a slipface, represent a specific phase of barchan dune evolution that has undergone distinctive morphodynamic processes.
2019-12-19 -
Forest Fires Affect Distributive Features of Soil Carbon and Nutrients in Permafrost Regions
Forest fires have important influences on chemical properties of soils in permafrost regions, and changes in soil characteristics affected by forest fires are related with fire severity and post-fire recovery time.
2019-12-02 -
Scientists Quantify Driving Factors on NDVI in Oasis-Desert Ecotone
Within oasis-desert ecotone regions, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is an important parameter for evaluating the growth of vegetation.
2019-11-19
