Developing drought‐smart, ready‐to‐grow future crops

A Raza, MS Mubarik, R Sharif, M Habib… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Breeding crop plants with increased yield potential and improved tolerance to stressful
environments is critical for global food security. Drought stress (DS) adversely affects …

Drought impacts on hydrology and water quality under climate change

J Qiu, Z Shen, H Xie - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that
droughts are projected to affect global hydrology and water quality in varying ways, resulting …

A systematic review of energy and mass fluxes, and biogeochemical processes in seasonally dry tropical forests and cactus ecosystems

AMRF Jardim, JEF de Morais, LSB de Souza… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hostile climatic conditions, including high water deficit in the soil-atmosphere system
characterize regions with arid and semi-arid climates. Local landscapes with climates of low …

Research on landscape pattern construction and ecological restoration of Jiuquan City based on ecological security evaluation

Z Wang, P Shi, X Zhang, H Tong, W Zhang, Y Liu - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Jiuquan City is a typical ecologically fragile area in the arid areas of Northwest China, and
unreasonable human activities directly affect the regional ecological security. Scientifically, it …

Reconstructed Jing River streamflow from western China: A 399-year perspective for hydrological changes in the Loess Plateau

X Zhao, K Fang, F Chen, H Martín, FA Roig - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Jing River is a secondary tributary of the Yellow River, which flows through the
middle of the Loess Plateau in China. Severe water scarcity and soil erosion in the basin …

Analysis of growing season normalized difference vegetation index variation and its influencing factors on the Mongolian Plateau based on Google Earth Engine

Y Yan, Z Xin, X Bai, H Zhan, J Xi, J Xie, Y Cheng - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Frequent dust storms on the Mongolian Plateau have adversely affected the ecological
environmental quality of East Asia. Studying the dynamic changes in vegetation coverage is …

[HTML][HTML] Unexpected consequences of large-scale ecological restoration: groundwater declines are reversed

J Luan, Y Zhang, X Li, N Ma, N Shahid, Z Xu, S He… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Groundwater resources play a crucial role in vegetation restoration and ecological
development in the northern part of the Loess Plateau. However, it remains unclear how the …

基于栅格尺度的生态安全评价及生态修复——以酒泉市肃州区为例

王梓洋, 石培基, 张学斌, 姚礼堂, 童华丽 - 自然资源学报, 2022 - jnr.ac.cn
以节约优先, 保护优先和自然恢复的方针为导向, 基于栅格尺度评价生态安全状态,
并开展国土空间生态修复分区, 有助于实施精准修复, 降低生态修复成本以及增加生态修复效益 …

On change of soil moisture distribution with vegetation reconstruction in Mu Us sandy land of China, with newly designed lysimeter

Y Cheng, W Yang, H Zhan, Q Jiang, M Shi… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background China's so-called Three North Shelterbelt Program (3NSP) has produced a vast
area of lined forest reconstruction in the semi-arid regions. This study uses the lined rain-fed …

Promoting effects of soil C and N and limiting effect of soil P jointly determine the plant diversity during the aerial seeding restoration process in Mu Us sandy land …

X Gong, Z Qi, J Wen, Y Yan, Q Liu, Y Li… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Exploring the change and maintaining mechanism of plant diversity is of great
significance for guiding the restoration of degraded ecosystems. However, how plant …