Age-Related Water Use Pattern of the Introduced Species Atriplex canescens Was Influenced by Root Distribution in Desert by Hai Zhou, Xiangyan Feng, Zhibin He, Bing Liu, Fang Li, Heng Ren, Qiyue Yang, Jianjun Kang, Shuai Wang, Wenzhi Zhao

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Variability in Dust Observed over China Using A-Train CALIOP Instrument by Hui Xu, Fengjie Zheng, Wenhao Zhang

“…Spatially, dust is mostly prominent over northwestern China, with the highest and most widespread dust activities being in Taklimakan Desert. …”
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An Analysis of the Physical Characteristics of the Summer Low Atmosphere in the Gobi Desert Adjacent to Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China by Yan Li, Xuejin Sun, Hui Ning, Hongcai Qin, Jiuquan Zhao

“…The purpose of the study was to examine the physical characteristics of the low atmosphere over land-lake nonuniform underlying surfaces in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China. The results of the statistical analysis showed that, during the observational period, the average daytime surface horizontal thermal gradient reached up to −0.2°C/km from the lakeshore to southern Gobi Desert area. …”
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Large-Scale Linkages of Socioeconomic Drought with Climate Variability and Its Evolution Characteristics in Northwest China by Siyuan Liu, Jianfeng Zhang, Ni Wang, Na Wei

“…Therefore, with the MSRRI, this study takes the Heihe River Basin in northwestern China, which is controlled by two reservoirs dominating the upstream and downstream regions, as a case study to reveal the evolution characteristics of socioeconomic drought in the basin and the external impacts of climate variability. …”
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Recalculating national occurrence of microplastics in China’s freshwater by Dongyu Xu, Bo Gao

“…Unexpectedly, the undeveloped regions in northwestern China face a high ecological risk. Our study contributes to the rescaling of microplastic patterns in freshwater nationally in China and can be applied globally. …”
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Revisiting Controls on Shale Oil Accumulation in Saline Lacustrine Basins: The Permian Lucaogou Formation Mixed Rocks, Junggar Basin by Chenjia Zhang, Jian Cao, Erting Li, Yuce Wang, Wenyao Xiao, Yang Qin

“…Here, we present a case study in the Middle Permian Lucaogou Formation in the Jimusar Sag, Junggar Basin, northwestern China. Results show that the Lucaogou Formation consists mainly of carbonate rocks, dolomitic or calcareous mudstones, tuffaceous or silty mudstones, and siltstones. …”
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Distribution and Conservation of Ephedra rhytidosperma by Chao Tan, David Kay Ferguson, Yong Yang

“…This shrubby species is endemic to the Helan Mountains in northwestern China where it dominates the lowland vegetation. …”
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Spatiotemporal Distributions of Ambient Volatile Organic Compounds in China: Characteristics and Sources by Gang Wang, Na Zhao, Hanyu Zhang, Guohao Li, Gang Xin

“…The annual average VOC concentrations ranged from 6.7 to 75.0 ppbv and featured spatial variations, with a high value in northwestern China (62.7 ± 17.5 ppbv) but no significant difference among northern, central, southern, and southwestern China (32.0–36.0 ppbv). …”
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Simulating responses of riparian ecosystem network complexity to flow regime shifts in arid regions by Mengmeng Zhang, Chengyi Zhao, Jianting Zhu, Wangya Han, Wenqi Jiang

“…This study applied a modified community-wide population model, integrated with network theory, to simulate the responses of the riparian ecosystem to potential future flow regimes in a desert oasis in northwestern China. Results indicate that the riparian ecosystem network in the desert oasis is inherently unstable under the Heihe River’s current hydrological conditions, characterized by considerable intra-annual and inter-annual runoff variability, as even minor changes in flow regimes could alter the network. …”
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Experimental Study on the Permeability of Weakly Cemented Rock under Different Stress States in Triaxial Compression Tests by Gangwei Fan, Mingwei Chen, Dongsheng Zhang, Zhen Wang, Shizhong Zhang, Chengguo Zhang, Qizhen Li, Bobo Cao

“…Mudstone and shaly coarse sandstone samples of Jurassic units in northwestern China were collected to study the seepage mechanism of weakly cemented rock affected by underground mining operations. …”
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Ground-Based Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Dust Aerosol Properties in Chinese Deserts near Hexi Corridor by Hua Xu, Zhengqiang Li, Donghui Li, Li Li, Xingfeng Chen, Yisong Xie, Kaitao Li, Cheng Chen, Yuhuan Zhang

“…One-year observation of dust aerosol properties near Hexi Corridor was obtained from polarimetric measurements by ground-based sunphotometer in the county of Minqin in northwestern China from March 2012 to February 2013. We observed an annual mean AOD of 0.22±0.22 at 0.50 μm and Ångström exponents of 0.1–1.0 fitting a bimode normal distribution centered at 0.18 and 0.50, respectively. …”
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Hypertension moderates the relationship between plasma beta-amyloid and cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study in Xi’an, China by Ziyu Liu, Yaoli He, Simeng Cui, Liangjun Dang, Binyan Zhang, Jin Wang, Wenhui Lu, Kang Huo, Yu Jiang, Chen Chen, Ling Gao, Shan Wei, Yi Zhao, Ningwei Hu, Jingyi Wang, Hong Lv, Hong Lv, Qiumin Qu, Qiumin Qu, Suhang Shang

“…This cross-sectional study investigates whether hypertension moderates the relationship between plasma Aβ and cognitive impairment (CI).MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 1488 subjects ≥ 40 years from rural areas of northwestern China. CI was defined as a Mini-Mental State Examination score lower than the cutoff. …”
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