Researchers Find Large Spatial Variations in Forest Water Retention Capacity in China

Dr. SHI Wenjiao and TAO Fulu's team at IGSNRR, CAS found large spatial variations in the CIC, LWHC, SSC and WRC in different forest types and soil types at the national and basin scales. The SSC values accounted for approximately 60–85% of the WRC valu...

Does Climate Change or Human Activity Dominate Alpine Grassland Change?

Associate Professor FU Gang's team at IGSNRR found that gross primary production (GPP) can be used as an indicator to quantify ecosystem changes.

Researchers Estimate Distribution of Hotspots for Desertification Research in China Using the Normalized Comprehensive Hotspots Index

Associate Professor HU Yunfeng’s team at IGSNRR used the Normalized Comprehensive Hotspots Index (NCH) to determine the spatial distribution of hotspots for desertification research based on the number of Chinese articles.

China's Inland Surface Water Quality Significantly Improves

Researchers Reveal the Impact of Greening and Warming to the Ratio of Transpiration to Total Terrestrial Evapotranspiration in China

Prof. HE Honglin's team at IGSNRR and National Ecosystem Science Data Center applied a model-data fusion method that integrates the Priestly-Taylor Jet Propulsion Laboratory (PT-JPL) model with multivariate observational datasets to quantify the relativ...

Scientists Discover the Imprint of Flow Directions in Meandering Rivers

Prof. CHEN Dong’s team from IGSNRR, CAS and his coauthor have analyzed 20 reaches of nearly pristine alluvial meandering rivers in the world. Their analysis shows that low-amplitude bends tend to be downstream-skewed, while upstream skewing increasingl...

Researchers Reveal Remarkable Uncertainties in Current Global Leaf Area Index Products Estimated from Remote Sensing Data

Prof. FANG Hongliang and his team, at IGSNRR, CAS revealed that remarkable uncertainties exist in current global LAI products for agricultural crops. The uncertainties are especially higher during the early and late growing stages. Future LAI products a...

The Joint Climbing Movement and Threshold of the Sustainable Development in the Urban Agglomeration

Prof. FANG Chuanglin's team quantitatively revealed the joint climbing law, climbing threshold and their verification process of the sustainable development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration.

IGSNRR Releases a New Global 500 m Vegetation Clumping Index Product

Prof. FANG Hongliang and his coauthors proposed a new look-up table (LUT) method, to estimate the daily CI from the MODIS V006 MCD43 BRDF product.

Researchers Find Water Availability Determines Carbon Uptake under Climate Warming

Terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle has attracted much attention because of their capacity to regulate atmospheric CO2 concentration and thus future climate warming. Prof. NIU Shuli’s lab at IGSNRR, CAS found that water availability determines terrestri...