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Studies Highlight Mountaintops as Plants' Climate Refugia[Sep 16, 2019]

Chinese researchers suggested that the importance of high altitude areas in tropical rain forests be highlighted under global warming because mountaintops can help preserve cold-adapted plants against climate change. This kind of climate refugia successfully preserved many species during the Quaternary glacial period, when glaciers formed and climate changed rapidly, thus affected the evolutionary processes and the maintenance of biodiversity.

Europeans;science;China

When Europeans Do Science in China[Sep 16, 2019]

John Speakman, a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other Europeans shared their experience on doing science in China.

South China Sea;paleocyclone;cyclone;sand cay

Tropical Sand Cays Found Accurately Recording Ancient Cyclones[Sep 16, 2019]

Researchers have discovered that sand cays in the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea can be a new carrier to accurately record paleocyclones, or cyclones in ancient times, according to a recent study paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Milky Way;Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting

Chinese Astronomers Complete over 71 Percent of Milky Way Observation Project[Sep 16, 2019]

Chinese astronomers have completed about 71.4 percent of a grand project to paint a portrait of the vast Milky Way, according to the Qinghai station of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It's expected to take another four to five years to complete the whole project, named "Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting," which was launched in 2011.

Mollisonia plenovenatrix;chelicerate;anthropod;scorpion;spider;Burgess Shale

Scientists Discover Oldest Ancestor of Spider, Scorpion[Sep 16, 2019]

An international joint research found a new species called Mollisonia plenovenatrix, which is believed to be the oldest chelicerate. The discovery places the origin of chelicerate, a vast group of arthropods with over 115,000 species, including horseshoe crabs, scorpions and spiders, to a time more than 500 million years ago.

carbon dioxide fertilization;land carbon sink;carbon sink

Enhancing Land Carbon Sink by Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Quantified by Researchers[Sep 16, 2019]

Researchers from 28 institutions in nine countries quantified the effect of rising carbon dioxide on terrestrial carbon dioxide sink since the 1960s, using simulations from 12 terrestrial ecosystem models and observations from seven field carbon dioxide enrichment experiments. The result showed that the northern temperate and site-scale terrestrial carbon sink enhancement by carbon dioxide fertilization are positively correlated across the models.

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