Researchers led by Prof. XUE Xian from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources have shown that increasing soil salinity is systematically reshaping the storage and distribution of soil inorganic carbon, providing the first comprehensive global assessment of how soil salinization influences inorganic carbon storage and highlight its implications for the global carbon cycle.
A research team from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a critical feedback loop involving rainfall and ocean salinity that helps maintain multiyear La Niña conditions.
Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a result, the global soil carbon cycle—by which carbon enters, moves through, and leaves soils worldwide—exerts a significant impact on climate change feedback. Now an important study led by researchers from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences sheds new light on this cycle by overturning assumptions about the relationship between microbial respiration and carbon storage.
An interdisciplinary research team has uncovered a new explanation for the foraging division of labor in bumblebees, drawing on insights from fluid dynamics, morphology, and ecology. Their study reveals that subtle variations in the microstructure of the insects' functional organs can shape labor division at the colony level.
A new study led by a research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated DIN export patterns in a representative subtropical catchment in southeastern China. Leveraging the Hydrological Predictions for the Environment (HYPE) model, the study assessed the primary drivers of fluctuations in DIN export, as well as the potential impacts of projected future climate and land-use shifts.
A new study led by Prof. ZHANG Yongqiang from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has delivered a highly observation-constrained assessment of the global water cycle to date. The study integrates satellite-derived hydrological estimates, multi-model Earth system simulations, and long-term observations from 50 major river basins worldwide via an advanced Emergent Constraint framework.
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