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To investigate the spatial distribution heterogeneity of soil nutrients beneath Tianshan spruce forests and provide a foundational basis for forest health evaluation of Tianshan spruce (Picea schrenkiana var. tian⁃schanica) stands, this study was conducted across four research regions selected along…
Taking the Tianshan spruce forest in the central Tianshan Mountains as the research object, and based on the functional value method, this study conducted a quantitative visualization analysis of the spatial pattern of ecological service value using the Getis-Ord Gi* hotspot analysis method. The res…
Hail represents one of the extreme weather phenomena induced by severe convection, featuring rapid development and substantial hazards, particularly posing a grave threat to the Longdong region where agriculture constitutes the primary economic sector. Against the backdrop of climate warming, in-dep…
Under global warming, the disaster risk posed by extreme precipitation events is increasingly intensifying, posing severe threats to regional socio-economic development and public life and property safety. This study first conducts a spatiotemporal characteristic analysis of eight extreme precipitat…
Precipitation is scarce in semi-arid areas, which results in serious drought. Occurrence of flash drought is quite often in these areas, and flash drought may also cause significant disasters. However, monitoring flash drought is still weak and remains a challenge. This study aims to identify, evalu…
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is one of the important greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, exerting significant influence on global warming. Land use change is a critical factor affecting N2O emissions, particularly in ecologically fragile semi-arid regions where the underlying mechanisms are more complex. How…
Integrating crop irrigation water into the global trade chain and analyzing its sustainability is crucial for ensuring water resources and food security. Constrained by the contradiction between economic benefits and water resource development and utilization, the sustainability of virtual water foo…
Evapotranspiration, as a critical component of the water cycle, is essential for water resource regulation and ecological protection, playing a particularly important role in water consumption and redistribution in arid regions. This study takes the Aksu River Basin as the research area, utilizing M…
Constructing ecological security patterns and accurately identifying key areas for ecological restoration constitute the prerequisite and guarantee for advancing territorial ecological restoration. As a national key water source conservation area and an ecological security barrier in the upper reach…
To investigate the mineralization characteristics of organic fertilizer combined with medium and trace elements in aeolian sandy soil and its effects on soil organic carbon fractions, laboratory incubation and field experiments were conducted to examine the decomposition and residual rates of organi…
Invasive plants have severely impacted global ecosystem functions and biodiversity. However, existing research primarily focuses on the monitoring and classification of single temporal phases of plants, with relatively few studies on multi-temporal continuous monitoring of key phenological stages, p…
Water supply services underpin the survival and development of human society and are critical for advancing ecological civilization construction and high-quality development of river basins in China. This study takes the Yili River Valley in Xinjiang as the research area, and based on statistical ye…
High-boron surface water and groundwater exist in the oasis area of Qiemao County, Xinjiang, seriously affecting residents' health. To preliminarily investigate the hydrochemical characteristics and main sources of boron in the oasis area of Qiemao County, 24 water samples (4 surface water and 20 gr…
The Precipitation Concentration Index (PCI) effectively characterizes the intra-annual concentration of precipitation and is widely used in related research. Based on monthly precipitation and mean temperature observations from 15 meteorological stations in the Yarlung Tsangpo River (hereinafter ref…
Farmland in arid regions with sandy loam soil is characterized by low fertility, poor water retention, high infiltration losses, and low crop yields. Elucidating the patterns of soil water movement in sandy loam farmland is of great significance for conserving water resources and increasing crop yie…
Daily precipitation data from ground meteorological stations across the eastern Tibetan Plateau in 2022 were selected to evaluate precipitation datasets from the China Meteorological Administration Multi-source Precipitation Analysis System (CMPAS), the China Meteorological Administration Land Data …
Gradually achieving common prosperity represents both the pathway and objective of Chinese-style modernization, and counties, as the fundamental units of urban-rural integrated development, hold significant importance for advancing common prosperity. Based on panel data for Ningxia counties from 200…
Based on three dimensions of population, economy, and space, this study identifies county-level shrinkage types in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China from 2000 to 2020 using a shrinkage degree model and multi-index comprehensive evaluation method, and simultaneously employs a Multiscale …
As the ninth largest industrial cluster in Xinjiang, high-quality development of the tourism economy serves as a leading driver for Xinjiang's modernization. Based on three perspectives—quality, efficiency, and tourist experience—a seven-dimensional measurement system for high-quality tourism econom…
Under the trend of global warming, extreme climate events have become increasingly frequent on the Loess Plateau. Clarifying the spatiotemporal characteristics of extreme precipitation events is of great significance for regional disaster prevention. Based on daily precipitation data from 111 meteor…
From a multi-scale perspective encompassing national, natural geographical division, and provincial levels, this study examines 899 ski resorts in China and comprehensively employs spatial analysis techniques such as Voronoi coefficient of variation, kernel density, and geographical detector model t…
Research on charming territorial space within the context of territorial spatial planning represents a vital approach for constructing and perfecting territorial spatial patterns in the new era, and exploring its intrinsic mechanisms and spatial identification pathways holds significant importance f…
As an underdeveloped component of the education system, precise quantification of kindergarten enrollment accessibility helps evaluate the spatial allocation efficiency of preschool education resources. Taking the main urban area of Lanzhou City as a case study, and combining data such as kindergart…
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is an important indicator for assessing ecological environmental stability. The Northwest Arid Eco-geographical Region of China has a fragile ecological environment, and analyzing the spatiotemporal variation of its NDVI and its driving forces is of …
GlobalNavigation Satellite System Reflectometry,GNSS-R is an effective Earth observation technique that retrieves land surface parameters by analyzing reflected navigation satellite signals. Historical studies indicate that conventional GNSS-R systems primarily employ a single polarization configura…
To investigate the degree of spatial mismatch between tourism economic development and ecological environment systems and quantitatively analyze their spatial mismatch relationship, this study takes Ningxia as the research object, and based on spatial mismatch theory and models, comprehensively empl…
Using ICESat-1 and CryoSat-2 altimetry data along with in-situ hydrological station measurements, this study analyzed the water level variation characteristics of Lake Balkhash from 1970 to 2020. Combined with MOD09A1 data and related materials, the long-term time series changes in lake area and wat…
Lake sediments in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau preserve rich records of regional climatic and environmental changes, which is of significant importance for revealing variations in the Tibetan Plateau's westerly-monsoon circulation system and their interaction processes. By analyzing environmenta…
National Forest Parks constitute one of the important carriers of ecological civilization construction in China. This study investigates National Forest Parks in 1994, 2004, and 2019, comprehensively employing spatial analysis techniques to systematically investigate their spatial distribution patte…
Using daily precipitation data from five national meteorological stations in Urumqi during the snowfall period from 1961–2019, together with NCEP daily four-times 0.25°×0.25° and 1°×1° reanalysis data, this study statistically analyzes the characteristics of snowstorms and large-scale circulation pa…
Ecological water conveyance scheduling is one of the most effective measures for ecological protection and restoration. Implementing ecological water conveyance holds significant importance for restoring natural ecosystems in arid and semi-arid regions and maintaining the health of oasis ecosystems.…
The regionalization problem involves partitioning a specific geographic region into several spatially contiguous zones to satisfy the fundamental principle of minimizing intra-zone differences while maximizing inter-zone differences, and finds wide applications in geography, environmental science, e…
Using a space-for-time substitution approach, we investigated and analyzed soil moisture dynamics and vegetation succession characteristics across abandoned croplands of varying abandonment ages (1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 20, 30, 40 years and CK) in the Qingtu Lake area of Minqin. The results indicated that: …
The oasis-desert ecotone is an ecological buffer zone between oasis and desert ecosystems, playing a crucial ecological role in maintaining oasis stability and preventing wind erosion. Taking the Cele Oasis-Desert Ecotone as an example, this study selected Landsat remote sensing imagery data, meteor…
Through field experiments and evaporation barrel simulation experiments, the effects of different short-term straw return methods on soil structure and water evaporation were analyzed. Four treatments were established: control (CK), chopped straw return (T1), chopped straw return + whole straw mulch…
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is one of the important greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and has attracted considerable attention in the context of global climate warming, with farmland soil being its primary emission source. Among the numerous factors affecting N2O emissions from farmland, tillage practices …
The movement and variation characteristics of soil water and salt during freeze-thaw processes in the non-irrigation season directly affect spring crop irrigation decisions. This study conducted field sampling and monitoring of six cotton field plots with different drip irrigation years in the Xinji…
To investigate the soil nutrient and stoichiometric characteristics of Elaeagnus angustifolia shelterbelts on the northeastern edge of the Kubuqi Desert, and to provide a theoretical basis for the sustainable utilization of desert shelterbelts, we selected 30 m × 30 m representative sample plots in …
Biological soil crusts play crucial roles in enhancing soil resistance to water and wind erosion and improving soil nutrient conditions. Soil extracellular enzyme activity can serve as a microbial indicator of soil biochemical reaction intensity and is of great significance for understanding nutrien…
Within the Xiying River basin above the Jiutiaoling Station, daily data from gridded precipitation and air temperature datasets for the period 2011–2018 were utilized to develop a method for correcting anomalous gridded precipitation points through exploration of the precipitation-runoff causal rela…
As an important component of the currently most authoritative dataset for medium-range ensemble forecasting, the applicability of TIGGE precipitation products in the arid and semi-arid regions of China requires further investigation. Based on observed precipitation data from 2015–2017 in the arid an…
Based on the monthly precipitation series of the Aral Sea basin from 1945 to 2019 derived from the CRU (Climate Research Unit) dataset, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal characteristics of annual precipitation variation, intra-annual distribution of precipitation, and complexity changes in prec…
In the early 21st century, studies proposed that the climate in Northwest China, especially Xinjiang, was undergoing "warm-humidification"; however, clear conclusions regarding the characteristics of this "warm-humidification" in Xinjiang across different time scales are still lacking. Based on obse…
Current urban network research exhibits a tendency to emphasize structural characteristic measurement while relatively neglecting impact mechanism analysis. Furthermore, in studies on urban network impact mechanisms, there is an overemphasis on theoretical qualitative macro-descriptions or conventio…
By constructing a five-element system coupling model, this study measures the coordination degree of rural tourism public information services, safety and security services, transportation convenience services, people-benefit and convenience services, and public administrative services across 30 pro…
This study employs urban flow intensity to modify the traditional gravity model for constructing an economic linkage matrix, and utilizes social network analysis methods to examine the evolutionary characteristics of the economic linkage network structure and its impact on economic growth in the Gua…
The hilly-gully region of the Loess Plateau constitutes a critical challenge for new urbanization practices in western China. In the absence of clarified regional characteristics, the intervention of modern urban-rural planning and design has generated substantial impacts on the local environment an…
Investigations were conducted on the modular characteristics, population age structure, dynamic features, and spatial distribution patterns of ramet populations of Phragmites australis naturally distributed in two sandy habitats (saline sandy land and ordinary sandy land) on the southern margin of t…
Using hourly reanalysis data at 5 km × 5 km resolution from the China Meteorological Administration Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) from May to July 2020, combined with crop development period data for the wheat planting areas in southern Xinjiang in 2020, we refined the definition of dry-hot …
Evaporation constitutes a critical process in the hydrological cycle, and investigating pan evaporation in the Loess Plateau region is of paramount significance for regional water resource utilization and protection. By compiling data on pan evaporation, air temperature, wind speed, precipitation, r…
