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Geographical features and management strategies for microplastic loads in freshwater lakes

npj Clean Water
In recent years, microplastic contamination in freshwater lakes has become a significant environmental concern. Despite this, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of the distribution patterns and regional characteristics of microplastic ...
Huike Dong, Ruixuan Zhang, Xiaoping Wang, Jiamin Zeng, Lei Chai, Xuerui Niu, Li Xu, Yunqiao Zhou, Ping Gong, Qianxue Yin   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Attribution of the Tibetan Plateau to northern drought [PDF]

National Science Review, 2019
<p>The Tibetan Plateau (TP), which is located in Asia and has an average elevation of over 4000 m, acts as a raised source of heat and an isolated region of humidity in the atmosphere. The TP serves as a “world water tower” because it stores large amounts of water as glaciers, lakes, and rivers ...
Jianping Huang, Yuzhi Liu, Yaohui Li, Qingzhe Zhu, Shanshan Wang   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Convergent evolution of metabolic functions: Evidence from the gut microbiomes of humans and dogs

iMetaOmics, EarlyView.
Dogs have undergone convergent evolution in their genome with humans in long‐term co‐living. Studies have shown that the gut microbiomes of dogs exhibit greater similarity to those of humans compared to mice and pigs. In our study, we first compared the gut microbiomes of macaques, three dog groups, and two wolf groups to those in humans.
Xiaoyang Wang, Lei Zhu, Yue Lan, Guimei Li, Tong Zhou, Qingguo Huang, Tifei Yuan, Chen Tian, Zhenxin Fan, Zhigang Zhang, Guo‐Dong Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the gut microbiome in the regulation of high‐altitude adaptation

iMeta, EarlyView.
This study is the first to elucidate mechanisms of high‐altitude adaptation from the perspective of the rumen ecosystem by using indigenous yaks and Holstein cows that have lived at high altitude since birth as comparative models. Through a systematic comparison of their rumen ecology using multi‐omics approaches—including rumen metagenomics ...
Xinyu Zhang, Senlin Zhu, Michael Kreuzer, Shoukun Ji, Wei Wang, Yanliang Bi, Shengli Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mountains Without Borders: Scaling up Conservation Success for Snow Leopards

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This special issue assembles pioneering research addressing three critical and interconnected challenges: establishing where viable populations persist at range edges, advancing methods to monitor this cryptic species and its prey effectively, and evaluating whether landscapes remain connected across political boundaries.
Juan Li, Lingyun Xiao
wiley   +1 more source

Proglacial river sediments are a substantial sink of perfluoroalkyl substances released by glacial meltwater

Communications Earth & Environment
How climate change will influence the accumulation of pollutants in remote mountainous lakes is poorly understood. Here we collected sediment cores from two glacial lakes (one is small and close to glacier, and the other is large and far from glacier) in
Yunqiao Zhou, Xiaoping Wang, Mengke Chen, Jianjie Fu, Tingting Zhu, Chuanfei Wang, Ping Gong, Lanxiang Wang, Jiao Ren   +8 more
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Spatial and Temporal Changes of Wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau Between 1990 and 2020

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Highly sensitive to climate change and glacier melt, alpine wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau have important implications for carbon storage and animal habitat.
Mengjie Zhao, Guoqing Zhang, Xiaoran Han, Tao Zhou, Fenglin Xu, Chenqian Tang   +5 more
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Species richness is a strong driver of forest biomass along broad bioclimatic gradients in the Himalayas

Ecosphere, 2022
Forest biomass is an important component of terrestrial carbon pools. However, how climate, biodiversity, and structural attributes co‐determine spatiotemporal variation in forest biomass remains not well known. We aimed to shed light on these drivers of
Nita Dyola, Shalik Ram Sigdel, Eryuan Liang, Flurin Babst, J. Julio Camarero, Sugam Aryal, Nakul Chettri, Shan Gao, Xiaoming Lu, Jian Sun, Tao Wang, Gengxin Zhang, Haifeng Zhu, Shilong Piao, Josep Peñuelas   +14 more
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Runoff Variability and Extremes in China Using High‐Resolution Simulations

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Future runoff in China shows strong regional and seasonal disparities, with the Southeast basin seeing the largest increase in annual runoff. Wetter summers and drier winters are expected in the south, whilst the northwest will face the opposite. Over 56% of regions are expected to experience more extreme high runoff, and over 40% face intensified low ...
Danyang Gao, Toby Richard Marthews, Guangtao Fu, Li Zhou, Fayyaz Ali Memon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying thermokarst lakes using deep learning and high-resolution satellite images

Science of Remote Sensing
Thermokarst lakes play a critical role in hydrologic connectivity, permafrost stability, and carbon exchange from local to regional scales. Due to the typically small sizes and highly dynamic nature of thermokarst lakes, their identification in large ...
Kuo Zhang, Min Feng, Yijie Sui, Jinhao Xu, Dezhao Yan, Zhimin Hu, Fei Han, Earina Sthapit   +7 more
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