Prof. ZHANG Yongqiang and his team quantified the annual trends in global land water availability from 2001 to 2020. Using a combination of satellite data and large-scale basin observations they defined water availability as the net difference between p...
11 03, 2023
Eutrophication refers to excessive enrichment of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in waterbodies and it poses a severe challenge to aquatic ecosystems. For instance, it may lead to excessive algal growth, thus having significant impacts on huma...
09 21, 2023
Ecosystem respiration is a major carbon flux between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, but how it changes with increasing temperature and whether there is an optimum temperature for ER remain poorly understood. Prof. NIU Shuli’s lab at Institu...
09 04, 2023
Prof. CHEN Mingxing’s team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the rising compound risk inequality to ageing and extreme heatwave exposure of global cities under future ...
07 13, 2023
Prof. SU Fenzhen’s team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators found humans know less than 5% of the ocean currents at depths of 1,000 meters belo...
05 12, 2023
Protected areas (PAs) are essential for biodiversity conservation but are threatened by cropland expansion. Recent studies predicted that approximately 500 million ha of additional croplands will be required in 2050 to address global food demand, which ...
03 24, 2023
Prof. SHI Wenjiao’s team from IGSNRR quantified three important water storages of the canopy layer, litter layer, and soil layers in the forest ecosystems related to water regulation services, and revealed the effect of individual drivers and multiple ...
03 02, 2023
Prof. FANG Chuanglin's team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences quantified the spatiotemporal patterns of human settlements in China during a long period from both urban and rural dimensi...
11 09, 2022
A common nomenclature of landslide geometry is the basis for describing and understanding landslides. Prof. LAN Hengxing’s team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and their coopera...
09 09, 2022
About two thirds of Tibetan Plateau (TP) is covered by alpine grassland, which includes two primary ecosystem types, alpine meadow in the east and alpine steppe in the west. The unique environmental condition and plant communities make Tibetan alpine gr...
07 28, 2022
