By synthesizing 880 observations from 199 woody species across 328 Northern Hemisphere forests, Professor KOU's team found that iterative effects of absorptive root contribute 2.4 ± 0.1 MgC ha-1 to the moderately-persistent forest soil C pool over two ...
09 29, 2025
Land ecosystems absorb carbon from the atmosphere, slowing climate change. Yet, land carbon uptake is strongly influenced by temperature, and can decline rapidly once temperature exceeds an optimum level (Topt). This study shows that current Earth Syste...
09 03, 2025
Prof. KOU Liang’s team and their collaborators propose a new paradigm, ‘iterative effects’, integrating multi-generational root production and turnover with multi-stage root decomposition to address the build-up of moderately stable soil carbon forms...
06 27, 2025
Led by Prof. ZHAO Yan from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers analyzed 5,000 fossil pollen samples extracted from two long lake-sediment cores of the Zoige Basin (~3400 m a.s.l.)...
06 20, 2025
Dr. Li Zhihui’s team and their collaborators present a framework for optimizing crop planting structures and spatial layouts, considering the water-land-energy-economy-environment-food nexus. Using the NSGA-II algorithm, the model addresses water and e...
04 14, 2025
A research team from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered a surprising phenomenon: despite rising sea surface temperatures, global ocean evaporation has actually decreased over t...
02 20, 2025
A research team from IGSNRR, CAS and their collaborators utilized multi-source remote sensing data to construct a monthly time series of water storage changes for 105,400 lakes and reservoirs in global arid regions from 1985 to 2020 to address long-term...
01 26, 2025
Associate Prof. XU Xiangbo and Prof. ZHANG Linxiu at IGSNRR,CAS and their collaborators found the year of 2015 was a turning point for GHG emissions intensity (GEI) levels, which dropped 16% in 2020, while inequality—measured as average GHG emissions p...
01 24, 2025
Prof. SU Fenzhen's team from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences has made significant progress in environmental dynamics research using big data. Their work analyzes China's coastline restorat...
01 06, 2025
Prof. DENG Xiangzheng's team quantified China’s national and sub-national food greenhouse gas footprints from 2007 to 2017, revealing a decline in both national and provincial per capita footprints. Further studies showed that despite notable inequalit...
11 25, 2024
