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, 2022The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is an “ecological security barrier” for China, and the balance of grain supply and demand, and the high-quality development of agriculture and animal husbandry within this region are related to the security of the frontier and...
07 27, 2022Orienting to the demands of sustainable development under international trade in the B&R countries, a research team at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed adaptive strategies for ensuri...
07 13, 2022Deep-sea fish teeth have attracted much attention because of their capacity to absorb rare earth element. Prof. GUO Qingjun's team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences found two distinctiv...
06 24, 2022A new study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology by a research group at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences thoroughly addressed three critical issues: ET magnitude, its trend and ...
06 17, 2022China has achieved a comprehensive victory in poverty reduction through decades of hard work and a set of measures, especially the continuous implementation of targeted poverty alleviation policy proposed in 2013.
03 30, 2022Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations by fossil fuel combustion is the main driver of global warming. Global CO2 retrieval products based on continuous satellite observations reveal nonuniform distributions of atmospheric CO2 concen...
03 18, 2022With the development of renewable energy, the basic logic of the interactions among global energy network has been changed. As Although traditional energy is still the top priority for China, the roles of China in the global energy networks are not only...
03 07, 2022Riparian vegetation growing in meandering river floodplains has differing abilities to stabilize streambanks depending on the vegetation type and density, which further influences meander bend migration.
02 07, 2022Food supply has always been a major concern in Tibet’s development. As the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is especially sensitive to climate change, clarifying the impact of climate change on the yield of cereal, a major crop in Tibet, is of great importance.
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