A new study led by Prof. CHEN Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture has revealed that calcium-rich bedrock can reshape the latitudinal diversity gradient within karst forests. These findings provide empirical evidence that geodiversity can modulate or even overturn the traditional LDG by altering soil formation and nutrient availability.
Prof. ZHANG Yuanming's team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography have unveiled a previously underestimated factor in greenhouse gas emissions from arid environments: hydroxyl radicals, often dubbed "free radicals".
A research team led by Prof. WANG Li from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that ecosystems with more complete ecological succession and longer existence exhibit strong adaptability to drought.
A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made progress in studying the Shibantan Biota in Yichang, Hubei Province, uncovering the oldest known complex three-dimensional burrow systems to date. Preserved in approximately 550-million-year-old strata, these trace fossils show that complex animal behaviors were modifying the seafloor environment nearly 10 million years earlier than previously thought.
A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, has found that long-term orbital variations occurring over million-year timescales may have served as the "pacemaker" for Earth’s ancient oxygenation pulses.
A new study led by Prof. SHAO Hua from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography has revealed that aridity and grazing jointly reduce the resistance of plant communities, thereby facilitating the invasion of Solanum rostratum in northern China.
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