Experimental Study on Cracking Behavior and Mechanism in Desiccating Soils in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China by Xin Wei, Chongyang Gao, Dongdong Yan, Ke Liu

“…The identification of cracking behaviors and mechanisms is helpful for the analysis of mechanical properties of soils and the prevention of geohazards in northwestern China.…”
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Grazing reduces shrub-facilitated diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in semiarid ecosystems by Jiancai Sun, Rentao Liu, Marcelo Sternberg, Lei Zhou, Zhimin Yang

“…To investigate this, we examined the abundance, α and β diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in microhabitats (shrub understory and open space) using pitfall trapping method in both ungrazed and grazed plots in a semiarid region of northwestern China. We also examined soil properties and plant attributes in order to explore the key drivers. …”
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Intensive Annual Forage Cultivation via Diversified Sowing Under a Mixed-Cropping System to Increase Production and Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Xiangyu Wei, Qin Feng, Jianqiang Deng, Haiying Hu, Qiaoli Ma, Jian Lan

“…This study demonstrates that the mixed forage oat and common vetch during spring and summer was the sustainable cropping system that achieved high system productivity, good economic returns, high energy utilization, and low environmental risk in Northwestern China.…”
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Molecular modeling to elucidate the dynamic interaction process and aggregation mechanism between natural organic matters and nanoplastics by Chi Zhang, Zhiyu Zhou, Mengning Xi, Haozhe Ma, Junhao Qin, Hanzhong Jia

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Effects of irrigation and organic fertilizer on pumpkin yield, quality, and water-fertilizer use efficiency in arid northwest China by Meng Yin, Jinxia Zhang, Liangliang Du, Lin Ding, Tao Zhong, Pengliang Tian, Runheng Yang

“…Field experiments in 2022 and 2023 in northwestern China’s arid region explored the impacts of irrigation volume, organic fertilizer use, and their coupling on pumpkin yield, quality, and water-fertilizer efficiency. …”
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The Spatial Distribution of Precipitation in Northwest China by Chuancheng Zhao, Shuxia Yao, Jun Liu, Jian Wang

“…Northwestern China has an extremely complex climate due to the varied terrain and complexities of climate change where the environment is sensitive to both regional and global climate change. …”
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Hydrological niche separation between two coexisting shrubs in an extremely arid region by Mingyan Fan, Hai Zhou, Lihui Tian, Heng Ren, Bing Liu, Xibin Ji, Xiangyan Feng, Qiyue Yang, Huli Gu

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Identification of Water Scarcity and Providing Solutions for Adapting to Climate Changes in the Heihe River Basin of China by Xiangzheng Deng, Chunhong Zhao

“…In ecologically fragile areas with arid climate, such as the Heihe River Basin in northwestern China, sustainable social and economic development depends largely on the availability and sustainable uses of water resource. …”
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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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Emerging carbon dioxide hotspots in East Asia identified by a top-down inventory by Lei Xia, Rui Liu, Wenxuan Fan, Changxu Ren

“…The results of the hotspot and driver analyses reveal persistent hotspots in Northern and Eastern China, as well as new trends in Northwestern China. The main drivers of emissions growth in hotspots are economic growth and changes in the energy mix. …”
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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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Challenges in rural maternal health: how received public services and policy awareness affect health knowledge and practices by Jie Yang, Jun Chen, Yuyang Xie, Yunjie Liu, Junhao Wu, Yangyuan Li, Jingchun Nie

“…PurposeThis study evaluates the effectiveness of rural maternal health services in improving pregnant women’s health knowledge, practices, and outcomes in northwestern China, focusing on the roles of received public services and policy awareness.MethodsBaseline surveys were conducted in rural Shaanxi Province in 2021 and 2023, involving 1,152 pregnant women from 85 townships, selected via multistage cluster random sampling. …”
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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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Projected Changes in Precipitation Extremes over Shaanxi Province, China, in the 21st Century by Ling Li, Ziniu Xiao, Shuxiang Luo, Aili Yang

“…Thus, the primary objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the changing characteristics of the precipitation extremes in the 21st century over Shaanxi Province, a climate-sensitive and environmentally fragile area located in the east of northwestern China, based on a consecutive simulation of the 21st century conducted by the regional climate model RegCM4 forced by the global climate model HadGEM2-ES at high resolution under middle emission scenario of the Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 (RCP4.5). …”
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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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Optimizing irrigation scheduling for maize based on soil moisture threshold and water consumption intensity by LIANG Xue, XUE Bing, LI Fangfang, CUI Yirui, MA Yangtao, WEI Changzhou, JIANG Yan

“…[Objective] Maize is a water-intensive crop, and its production in northwestern China heavily depends on irrigation. Optimising irrigation scheduling is hence essential to improving water use efficiency and conserving water resources. …”
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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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