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Prediction of aboveground grassland biomass on the Loess Plateau, China, using a random forest algorithm

Scientific Reports, 2017
Grasslands are an important component of terrestrial ecosystems that play a crucial role in the carbon cycle and climate change. In this study, we collected aboveground biomass (AGB) data from 223 grassland quadrats distributed across the Loess Plateau ...
Yinyin Wang, Gaolin Wu, Lei Deng, Zhuangsheng Tang, Kaibo Wang, Wenyi Sun, Zhouping Shangguan   +6 more
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Precipitation‐mediated asymmetric fitness consequences of nectar robbing in distylous Primula florindae

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Flowers with deep corollas are frequently associated with nectar robbing, a behaviour that often reduces pollen transfer and seed production. Robbing scars, however, may further affect plant reproductive success through rainwater entry into corolla tubes.
Wu Sun, Judith Trunschke, Run‐Dong Shi, Hao Wang, Chang‐Yun Zheng, Zi‐Lin Xu, Jie Zhang   +6 more
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The Biogeographical Distribution of Soil Bacterial Communities in the Loess Plateau as Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
The rigorous environmental stress of the severely eroded Loess Plateau may have promoted specific soil bacterial communities in comparison to other eco-environmental regions.
Dong Liu, Dong Liu, Yang Yang, Shaoshan An, Honglei Wang, Ying Wang   +5 more
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses alleviating salt stress in maize is associated with a decline in root-to-leaf gradient of Na+/K+ ratio

BMC Plant Biology, 2021
Background Inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi has the potential to alleviate salt stress in host plants through the mitigation of ionic imbalance. However, inoculation effects vary, and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
Hao Wang, Tingting An, Di Huang, Runjin Liu, Bingcheng Xu, Suiqi Zhang, Xiping Deng, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Yinglong Chen   +8 more
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Updated Chorotypes of Terrestrial Vertebrates Shed New Light on Zoogeographical Regions in China

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Chorotype represents a fundamental concept for identifying groups of species that share similar distribution patterns. However, the last comprehensive revision of animal chorotypes in China was performed more than a decade ago. Here, we update the chorotype classifications for 1040 species and propose an updated zoogeographical regionalization scheme ...
Baoming Zhang, Minghui Zhou, Zhipeng Xie, Ludan Zhang, Haoting Duan, Jiehua Yu, Jiekun He   +6 more
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Direct Evidence of the Geographic Origins of Horse in the Yaoheyuan Site From Ningxia, China

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, It is explores the geographic origin of horses by analyzing the strontium isotope ratio of horses from the Yaoheyuan site, an important site in the northwest region of China during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The results show that most of the horses at the Yaoheyuan site were domesticated locally, while a small number came from ...
Youla Yang, Qing Ma, Mengling Gao, Baiwei Han, Chunyan Zhao   +4 more
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Long-Term and Short-Term Dynamics of Ecosystem Services and Their Drivers in the Beijing–Tianjin Sandstorm Source Region

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services (ESs) and their responses to social-ecological drivers is critical for restoration governance in ecologically vulnerable regions.
Xiangling Liu, Zhitao Wu, Xiaogang Shi, Keming Ma, Ziqiang Du, Xin Chen, Huilin Zhang, Bin Sun   +7 more
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Dust Sources of Last Glacial Chinese Loess Based on the Iron Mineralogy of Fractionated Source Samples

Geophysical Research Letters, 2019
The Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) is composed of an enormous volume of aeolian dust, the provenance of which is still debated. In the present study, we attempt to distinguish different sources of Last Glacial (LG) sediments of the CLP based on the iron ...
Jia Jia, Youjun Wang, Dunsheng Xia, Hao Lu, Fuyuan Gao   +4 more
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Tree-ring based may-july temperature reconstruction since AD 1630 on the Western Loess Plateau, China.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Tree-ring samples from Chinese Pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) collected at Mt. Shimen on the western Loess Plateau, China, were used to reconstruct the mean May-July temperature during AD 1630-2011.
Huiming Song, Yu Liu, Qiang Li, Na Gao, Yongyong Ma, Yanhua Zhang   +5 more
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CrustCheck: a conceptual framework for interpreting biocrust trait–function relationships in drylands

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Biocrusts are increasingly recognized for their contribution to soil stability, hydrology, nutrient cycling, and energy balance in drylands, yet practical field methods for assessing functional roles are limited. Existing approaches typically rely on cover estimates, taxonomic identification, or laboratory analyses, providing ...
Nicky Parker, Susanne Schmidt, Lea Condon, Jaidyn Eastaughffe, Peter Coates, Wendy Williams   +5 more
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