Trends and Spatiotemporal Patterns of the Meteorological Drought in the Ili River Valley from 1961 to 2023: An SPEI-Based Study by Su Hang, Alim Abbas, Bilal Imin, Nijat Kasim, Zinhar Zunun

“…While the large-scale climatic phenomena in Xinjiang, northwest China, are well-documented, the finer-scale climatic variability in subregions such as the Ili River Valley (IRV) remains insufficiently studied. …”
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Seasonal and Regional Variability of Long-Wave Effective Radiation in China and Associated Modulating Factors by Qianrong Ma, Jie Zhang, Yu Gu, Yujun Ma, Yu Cao

“…There is a consistent downward trend in annual and seasonal variations of LER under different weather conditions in China especially after 2007. In northwest China, the eastern Tibetan Plateau, and southeast and northeast China, LER is significantly reduced in two weather conditions and this is more pronounced in spring. …”
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Estimation of daily groundwater evapotranspiration from diurnal variations of lysimeter experiments data in an arid zone by Peng Yao, Fengzhi Shi, Yuehui Wang, Ningze Dai, Chengyi Zhao

“…Study region: The Akesu National Station of Observation and Research for Oasis Agro-ecosystem in the Tarim River Basin, a typical arid region in northwest China. Study focus: Groundwater evapotranspiration (ETg) is a key discharge pathway in arid regions, influenced by hydrothermal conditions and vegetation water use, complicating accurate estimation. …”
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Composition Characteristics and Potential Regions of PM2.5 during Winter Haze Pollution in Typical Industrial Areas, NW-China by Liyao Guo, Chao Gu, Kaiyuan Dong, Shengju Ou, Xueyan Zhao, Xinhua Wang, Zhensen Zheng, Wen Yang

“…Abstract To investigative the causes and potential sources of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution during winter haze pollution in typical industrial areas in northwest China, PM2.5 samples were collected during a winter extreme pollution event (from January 15 to January 29, 2016). …”
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Effects of straw amendment on the bioavailability of selenite in soil and its mechanisms by Mingxing Qi, Dan Wang, Hui Zhai, Fei Zhou, Hao Wu, Wanchen Zhao, Rongxin Ren, Jingyi Shi, Dongli Liang

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Effect of irrigation with magnetized and ionized water on yield, nutrient uptake and water-use efficiency of winter wheat in Xinjiang, China by Xinyue Chen, Kai Zhang, Xiaopeng Gao, Xin Ai, Guoyue Chen, Xiaomeng Guo, Chengcheng Wu, Lu Zhang

“…This study investigated the effects and mechanisms of irrigation with MI water on water physicochemical properties, soil nutrient availability, winter wheat growth, nutrient uptake, yield, and water-use efficiency in Xinjiang, an arid region of northwest China. Our results showed that magnetization and ionization significantly increased water-dissolved oxygen and reduced water surface tension. …”
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Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Generation Using Structural and Thermal Modeling in the Thrust Belt of Kuqa Foreland Basin, NW China by Chengfu Lyu, Xixin Wang, Xuesong Lu, Qianshan Zhou, Ying Zhang, Zhaotong Sun, Liming Xiao, Xin Liu

“…The Kuqa Basin is a typical foreland basin in northwest China, characterized by compressive foreland fold-and-thrust belts and a regionally distributed huge salt layer. …”
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Differences in pyrolysis behavior and volatiles of tar-rich coal with various origins by Qingmin Shi, Xinyue Zhao, Shuangming Wang, Hongchao Zhao, Ruijun Ji, Chunhao Li, Bingyang Kou, Jun Zhao

“…Abundant in northwest China, tar-rich coal exhibits significantly diverse pyrolysis behaviors depending on its origins. …”
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Water conservation assessment and its influencing factors identification using the InVEST and random forest model in the northern piedmont of the Qinling Mountains by Song He, Hui Qian, Yuan Liu, Xiaoguang Zhao, Fengmei Su, Huan Ma, Zilong Guan, Tao Zhang

“…Study region: The north piedmont of the Qinling Mountains (NPQM), Northwest China. Study focus: By combining the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) and random forest model, the current study assessed the water conservation in the NPQM, one of the most significant Earth's critical zone in China, and identified the key factors influencing it. …”
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Spatial distribution and influencing factors of secondhand smoke exposure in Chinese healthcare facilities: a cross-sectional survey by Ying LIU, Xinying ZENG, Lin XIAO, Shiwei LIU

“…OLS spatial regression model analysis showed that regions with a higher proportion of males (β = 23.878, t = 3.207, P = 0.003), a higher proportion of individuals aged 0 – 14 years (β = 0.751, t = 3.665, P < 0.001), a higher proportion of individuals aged 15 – 64 years (β = 0.929, t = 3.279, P = 0.003), a higher illiteracy rate (β = 0.675, t = 2.703, P = 0.011), a higher tobacco consumer price index (β = 2.563, t = 2.384, P = 0.024), and a lower proportion of cities with smoke-free legislation (β = 0.069, t = 2.119, P = 0.034) had higher SHS exposure rates in healthcare facilities.ConclusionsSHS exposure in Chinese healthcare facilities is mainly concentrated in central-south, southwest, and northwest China. Sex ratio, the proportions of individuals aged 0 – 14 years and 15 – 64 years, illiteracy rate, tobacco consumer price index, and the proportion of cities with smoke-free legislation are the main influencing factors of SHS exposure in healthcare facilities in China.…”
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Effects of soil water on fungal community composition along elevational gradients on the northern slope of the Central Kunlun Mountains by Yongguang Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Chaonan Li, Zhihao Zhang, Chenhong Li, Bo Zhang, Hongchen Jiang, Waqar Islam, Xiangzhen Li, Fanjiang Zeng

“…Here, we investigated the diversity patterns and underlying mechanisms shaping soil fungal communities along an elevational gradient (1,707–3,548 m) on the northern slope of the Central Kunlun Mountains in northwest China. Results indicated that the dominant phyla identified across the seven elevational gradients were Basidiomycota and Ascomycota, displaying a unimodal pattern and a U-shaped pattern in relative abundance, respectively. …”
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Balancing water saving, market attractiveness, and pollution control in crop spatial planting structure planning of arid regions by Longbin Hao, Shouhong Zhang, Fan Zhang, Yufei Ren, Xinyu Zhang, Jing Yan

“…This approach is applied to a case study in the middle reaches of the Heihe River in northwest China. Results indicate that: (1) The grid-based 0–1 integer multi-objective approach can effectively make tradeoff among market attractiveness, pollution control, and crop suitability for crop planting structure planning in arid regions. (2) Optimal crop planting structure can increase agricultural planting profits by 4.679 billion CNY, while reduces system agricultural non-point source pollution and total water allocation by 34.72 % and 10.19 %, respectively. (3) The multi-objective approach shows better performance than single-objective models by comparing the Synthetic Degree (SD), Sustainability Index (SI), and Approximation Degree (AD). …”
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Integrated Effects of Water and Nitrogen Coupling on Eggplant Productivity, Fruit Quality, and Resource Use Efficiency in a Cold and Arid Environment by Jie Li, Hengjia Zhang, Chenli Zhou, Anguo Teng, Lian Lei, Yuchun Ba, Jiandong Yu, Fuqiang Li

“…By employing the EWM-TOPSIS model for comprehensive evaluation, the results indicated that mild water deficit (60–70% in FC) and moderate nitrogen application (270 kg·ha⁻¹) at flowering and fruiting of eggplants was the optimal water and nitrogen application mode under mulched drip irrigation in the Hexi region of northwest China. The results will provide some theoretical basis for water-saving, productive, high-quality, and high-efficiency cultivation of eggplant in cold and arid environments.…”
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An interval bilateral regulation framework of water resources supply and demand in irrigation area under water sources uncertainty by Zhan Shu, Yan Kang, Ying Gao, Xuemai Shi, Wanxue Li, Shuo Zhang, Songbai Song, Lingjie Li

“…We applied this framework to the Baojixia Irrigation Area (BIA) of Northwest China. The results show that the NGboost model achieves satisfactory prediction results for the monthly runoff. …”
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Study on the Synergistic Regulation Model for <i>Lycium barbarum</i> Berries Under Integrated Irrigation and Fertigation in Northwest Arid Regions by Yanlin Ma, Huile Lv, Yanbiao Wang, Yayu Wang, Minhua Yin, Yanxia Kang, Guangping Qi, Rong Zhang, Jinwen Wang, Junxian Chen

“…This study provides key insights for implementing integrated drip irrigation in northwest China’s arid regions.…”
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Experimental study on freeze-thaw damage characteristics and mechanical properties of fractured rock mass of surface mine slope in cold region by Sen TIAN, Ying ZHAO, Hu SI, Chun ZHU, Quangui LI

“…There are numerous large-scale rock slopes in the surface mines of China, which are easily affected by multiple factors such as complex geological topography and natural, engineering disturbances, thereby resulting in frequent landslide disasters. Especially in northwest China, the landslides in surface mines occur frequently due to the complicated topographical and geological structures, harsh climate and environment, as well as long-term engineering disturbance, which seriously threaten miner’s life and property safety. …”
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Impacts of plant root traits and microbial functional attributes on soil respiration components in the desert-oasis ecotone by Jinlong Wang, Jinlong Wang, Jinlong Wang, Guanghui Lv, Guanghui Lv, Guanghui Lv, Jianjun Yang, Jianjun Yang, Jianjun Yang, Xuemin He, Xuemin He, Xuemin He, Hengfang Wang, Hengfang Wang, Hengfang Wang, Wenjing Li, Wenjing Li, Wenjing Li

“…This study was strategically designed to investigate Rs and its components (Ra and Rh), soil properties, and root traits within the desert-oasis ecotone (encompassing the river bank, transitional zone, and desert margin) of northwest China. Employing metagenomics, we quantitatively characterized microbial taxonomic attributes (i.e., taxonomic composition) and functional attributes (specifically, functional genes implicated in microbial carbon metabolism). …”
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Comparative analysis of the human microbiome from four different regions of China and machine learning-based geographical inference by Yinlei Lei, Min Li, Han Zhang, Yu Deng, Xinyu Dong, Pengyu Chen, Ye Li, Suhua Zhang, Chengtao Li, Shouyu Wang, Ruiyang Tao

“…In this study, 220 samples, consisting of sterile swabs from palmar skin and oral and nasal cavities were collected from Chinese Han individuals living in Shanghai, Chifeng, Kunming, and Urumqi, representing the geographic regions of east, northeast, southwest, and northwest China. The full-length 16S rRNA gene of the microbiota in each sample was sequenced using the PacBio single-molecule real-time sequencing platform, followed by clustering the sequences into operational taxonomic units (OTUs). …”
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The Impact of Bacterial Leaf Blight Disease (<i>Pantoea agglomerans</i>) on Grain Yield and Nutritional Quality of Oat by Ruochen Zhang, Jianjun Wang, Longhai Xue, Malik Kamran, Yue Wang, Xuekai Wei, Guiqin Zhao, Chunjie Li

“…Among these, the bacterial leaf blight disease (LBD) caused by <i>Pantoea agglomerans</i> has been an emerging and prevalent oat disease in Northwest China in recent years and has become a major challenge for oat cultivation in this region. …”
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Blending of Slow-Release N Fertilizer and Urea Improve Rainfed Maize Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency While Reducing Apparent N Losses by Jinjin Guo, Hanran Yang, Yong Yuan, Pengzhou Yin, Nv Zhang, Zhizhao Lin, Qichang Ma, Qiliang Yang, Xiaogang Liu, Haidong Wang, Fucang Zhang

“…The findings highlight that SU effectively reduces N losses while ensuring high yield, which could be used as one of the optimal N fertilization strategies for rainfed maize in Northwest China.…”
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