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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 -
How Different Light-absorbing Impurities in Snow Influence Its Reflectance Characteristics?
Using multi-angle spectroscopic measuring instruments, a joint team led by Prof. HAO Xiaohua from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) collected data sets of hemispherical directional reflectance factor (HDRF) with different contents of black carbon (BC), ...
2023-06-20 -
How Does Composite Embankment with L-shaped Two-phase Closed Thermosyphons Influence Permafrost Deformation?
A joint research team led by Prof. ZHANG Mingyi from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has built the first spatiotemporal thermal-deformation observation system to explore the spatiotemporal thermal-deformation characteristics of the composite e...
2023-06-15 -
Researchers Propose New Method to Identify Label-free Microplastics in Crop Plants
A research team led by Prof. FAN Qiaohui from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. LUO Yongming from the Institute of Soil Science of CAS, has systematically investigated label-free microplastics identification in crop ...
2023-06-07
