Effects of Different Vegetation Types on Soil Hydrological Properties, Understory Diversity, and Water Conservation Capacity in the Horqin Sandy Land, China [PDF]
PlantsThe Northern Sand Prevention Belt is an important ecological security barrier in China. It is also one of the regions most severely affected by wind-eroded desertification.
Jiahui Yao +7 more
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Identification and expression analysis of the small auxin-up RNA (SAUR) gene family in Lycium ruthenicum [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 The plant hormone auxin regulates numerous aspects of plant growth and development, and small auxin-up RNA (SAUR) is the largest family of early auxin response genes in higher plants.
Jing Hu +5 more
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Numerical simulation of wind field and sand flux in crescentic sand dunes
Scientific Reports, 2021 Sand flux is the key factor to determine the migration of sand dunes and the erosion to the surrounding environment. There are crescent-shaped sand dunes of various scales in the desert, and there are significant differences in spatial wind field and ...
Huiwen Zhang +5 more
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Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Ammopiptanthus mongolicus (Leguminosae)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 Ammopiptanthus mongolicus is the only evergreen broadleaf shrub in the northwest desert of China, which can survive in long-term aridity and extremely cold environments. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome sequence of A.
Jing Hu +3 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Agriophyllum squarrosum, an annual native herb pioneer species, is associated with shifting sand dunes along the southern edge of the Tengger Desert, China.
Quanlin Ma +4 more
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Genesis and abiotic characteristics of three high-altitude peatlands in the Tien Shan Mountains (Kyrgyzstan), with focus on silty peatland substrates [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2016 Peatlands are scarce and threatened ecosystems in the semiarid region of Kyrgyzstan. Knowledge about the Kyrgyz peatlands is still poor and, especially, their genesis has hardly been investigated so far.
R. Müller +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 The status, changes, and disturbances in geomorphological regimes can be regarded as controlling and regulating factors for biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring geomorphology at local, regional, and global scales is not only necessary to conserve ...
Angela Lausch +34 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 Chinese loess provides the most detailed terrestrial records of paleoclimate changes. We employed the grain-size components of aeolian sediments to reconstruct the history of the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP).
Qiansuo Wang +3 more
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A Simple Agent‐Based Model That Reproduces All Types of Barchan Interactions
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 We introduce a novel agent‐based model for simulating interactions between migrating barchan dunes. A new two‐flank representation of barchans allows modeling of bedform asymmetries that are intrinsic to collision dynamics but have not been explored ...
Dominic T. Robson, Andreas C. W. Baas
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Estimation of stresses in atmospheric ice during aeolian vibration of power transmission lines [PDF]
, 2010 Aeolian vibration in bare and iced cable was simulated using the theory of cable vibration. High frequency vibration creates stresses in the cable and consequently in the ice covering that cable, which may result in ice failure and eventually ice ...
Kermani, Majid +5 more
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