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How Microhabitat Affects Bacterial Communities in Semi-arid Ecosystem?
Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources and the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences collected biocrusts and soil samples from eight representative microhabitats and investigated the response of biocrusts and their bacterial communities to micr...
2023-08-17 -
Study Reveals Differential Gas Transport in Shale Nanochannels
A research team led by Prof. ZHOU Shixin from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environmental and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has systematically compared the differential transport behaviors of helium, nitrogen, methane, and helium-methane mixtures in shale nanochannels.
2023-07-31 -
Study Reveals Physiological Characters of Desert Plant Seeds Under Warming and Drought
Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) determined seed physiological characters of Artemisia scoparia, Lespedeza davurica and Cleistogenes squarrosa under warming and drought conditions, to reveal the response ability and adaptation ...
2023-07-31 -
Biocrust and Sand Burial Promote Annual Herb Community Assembly in Arid Sandy Desert
A research team from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a field survey to verify the presence of biocrust and sand burial jointly promoted the assembly of herbs in arid sandy desert.
2023-07-21 -
Study Reveals Sedimentary Architecture and Hydrodynamic Processes Involved in Lacustrine Embayed Beach
Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed embayed beaches formed in Qinghai Lake, northwest China, as a classic example to understand similar modern and ancient deposits in lakes.
2023-07-14 -
Researchers on Yulong Snow Mountain in SW China's Yunnan
Yulong Snow Mountain Cryosphere and Sustainable Development Field Science Observation and Research Station, set up by Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is located in Lijiang City in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Since 2006, researchers have regularly monitored ...
2023-07-08 -
How Biocrust Influences Bacterial Communities in Both Biocrust and Subsoil Layers?
A research team led by LI Xinrong from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences selected a long-term (65 years) restoration succession sequence on the southeastern edge of the Tengger Desert to explore factors that determine changes in subsoil bacterial communities.
2023-06-30 -
Study Reveals Decoupled Relationship of Water and Carbon Fluxes over Artificial Shrub in Desert
Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) assessed water and carbon fluxes and their influencing factors of an artificial Haloxylon ammodendron shrubland in arid region, northwest China.
2023-06-21
