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New progress in the geochronology of hominin relics in loess strata of the Chinese Loess Plateau [PDF]

Chinese Science Bulletin, 2019
Many hominin sites have been found since 1920 in the Chinese Loess Plateau and its adjacent areas, such as Nihewan, Shuidonggou, Dingcun, Dali, Kehe, Xihoudu, east Qinling Mts. and Lantian. Recently two very important investigations of hominin occupation in the Chinese Loess Plateau have caused a huge impact in the world.
Tingping Ouyang, Shasha Peng, Houyun Zhou, Yamei Hou, Shuqing Fu, Zhiguo Rao, Yi Wu, Robin Dennell, Shixia Yang, Shifan Qiu, Jiangwei Han, Weiwen Huang, Zhaoyu Zhu, Jiubing Xie   +13 more
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Trade‐Offs and Synergies in Cultivated Land Multifunctionality and Zoning Management in the Dongting Lake Region: A Multiscale Analysis

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the multiscale patterns and interactions of cultivated land multifunctionality is important for conservation, governance, and agricultural spatial optimization in the Dongting Lake region. Using 2020 data, we evaluated economic production (EPF), social security (SSF), landscape‐based recreation (LRF), and ecological maintenance ...
Chaomin Li, Tingting Ma, Zixiang Sun, Bingeng Xie, Kaichun Zhou   +4 more
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Stepwise increased spatial provenance contrast on the Chinese Loess Plateau over late Miocene-Pleistocene

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
The formation of the Chinese Loess Plateau resulted from a combination of surface processes rather than from aridification of the Asian interior alone, according to zircon U-Pb geochronological ...
Wenbin Peng, Haobo Zhang, Alex Pullen, Maotong Li, Baotian Pan, Wenjiao Xiao, Junsheng Nie   +6 more
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Synergistic and Trade‐Off Effects of Plant Communities on Slope Runoff and Sediment Yield

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Plant community functional structure plays an important role in regulating slope runoff and sediment yield on the Loess Plateau. Based on runoff plot monitoring and vegetation surveys in the Yangjuangou catchment, we used partial least squares regression (PLSR) and variable importance in projection (VIP) analysis to assess the effects of ...
Menghan Wu, Jian Hou, Qingsheng Zhong
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Soil function, properties and plant diversity–biomass patterns differ between grazed and non-grazed steppe ecosystems

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionGrazing and enclosure are two major grassland management techniques, which are used to preserve plant variety, productivity, and ecosystem function.MethodsIn order to compare plant diversity and ecosystem function under grazing and enclosure ...
Jia Mi, Jia Mi, Qianju Wang, Jun Ou, Jing Shi, Haiyan Pang, Ziheng Feng, Yongfei Bai, Yongfei Bai   +8 more
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Ecosystem engineers and functional dominance: when species loss matters for ecosystem function

Oikos, EarlyView.
Understanding when and why species loss affects community function in natural communities remains an open question in ecology. Recent cross‐system analyses have shown that functional dominance is associated with whether species loss matters: in communities dominated by few high‐performing species, lost species contribute little to function.
Gianluca Sarà, Yun‐wei Dong, Maria Cristina Mangano   +2 more
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Climate and Environment Effect and Tectonic Erosion of Loess Plateau in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Uplift

Shuitu baochi yanjiu, 2006
Great change of Asian and global climate is the result of Qinghai-Xizang plateau uplift.And Planetary wind system was changed and monsoon effect appeared around 22 MaB.P.in East Asia;the monsoon effect of East Asia became stronger,aridity and ...
MA Run-yong~1, PENG Jian-bing~1, LIU Li-nian~2, PAN Ai-fang~   +3 more
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Variations in Plant Water Use Efficiency Response to Manipulated Precipitation in a Temperate Grassland

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Water use efficiency (WUE) plays important role in understanding the interaction between carbon and water cycles in the plant-soil-atmosphere system. However, little is known regarding the impact of altered precipitation on plant WUE in arid and semi ...
Xuying Hai, Jianping Li, Jiwei Li, Yulin Liu, Lingbo Dong, Xiaozhen Wang, Wenwen Lv, Zhenhong Hu, Zhouping Shangguan, Lei Deng, Lei Deng   +10 more
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A review of the research and advancements in MSDF monitoring for the remote sensing of soil and water conservation in China

River, EarlyView.
Abstract With the advancement of remote sensing technology, the accuracy of satellite remote sensing data has continuously improved, and the precision of large‐scale soil and water conservation monitoring has steadily increased. However, owing to differences in sensor acquisition and processing methods, monitoring data obtained through various ...
Wenxiang Liu, Shaohua Lei, Jinsong Shi, Kun Sun, Qiu Jin   +4 more
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The Critical Role of Soil Ecological Stoichiometric Ratios: How Does Reforestation Improve Soil Nitrogen and Phosphorus Availability?

Plants
The ecological stoichiometric characteristics of soil elements have greatly enhanced our understanding of the circulation of soil nutrients. However, there is limited knowledge regarding the alteration of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometric ...
Zhixuan Chen, Xia Xu, Yongli Wen, Man Cheng, Xiao Wang   +4 more
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