Agricultural production is significantly impacted by climate change. Owing to its arid and warm climate, investigating the impacts of climate change on agricultural production in Xinjiang Province can help improve resilience and designate adaptive re...
Understanding the spatiotemporal decoupling effects among economic development, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions is paramount to achieving sustainable development. This relationship sheds light on how regions can grow economically whi...
The porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) possesses an inherent ability to adapt to environmental transformations and undergo evolutionary changes, which has imposed significant economic pressure on the global pig industry. Give...
Traditional stress sensitivity experiments are typically conducted under dry conditions, without considering the reservoir’s water content. In reality, the presence of water within pores significantly influences the extent of stress sensitivity...
The Huangyangshan super-large graphite deposit is located in the Qitai area of East Junggar in Xinjiang Province, China. This deposit is well known for its distinguishing properties, including the alkaline granite complex that hosts the graphite ore,...
The Kuergasheng Pb–Zn deposit is located in the Western Tianshan Orogen, Xinjiang Province, China. The ore bodies are mainly hosted in sandstone of the Tuosikuertawu Formation and are controlled by NW-trending faults. Three paragenetic stages w...
Due to recent global climate change, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have become a serious problem in many high mountain areas. Accurately and rapidly mapping glacial lakes is the basis of other glacial lake studies that are associated with wate...
The Huangyangshan super-large graphite deposit, located in the East Junggar area of the Xinjiang Province, is hosted in and has closely temporal, spatial, and genetic relationships with the Huangyangshan alkaline granites. There are such silicate min...
Common Mode Error (CME) presents a kind of spatially correlated error that is widespread in regional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) networks and should be eliminated during postprocessing of a GNSS position time series. Several spatiotempo...
In the post-pandemic era, there has been a noticeable increase in tourism demand in China, and the comprehensive driving role of tourism in the national economy and social development has become more pronounced. Tourism public service providers, whic...
Evaluation of land-use suitability can prevent problems, such as environmental disruption, wastage of resources, and ecological disruption, when unsuitable tourism-based exploration is undertaken in an area. This study summarizes a novel concept and...
The Yarkand Basin, located in the southwest of the Tarim Basin, is a northeastern part of the eastern Paratethys ocean in the Paleocene, and a significant amount of evaporites, with gypsum, anhydrite, and halite as the main types, were developed in t...
There is no doubt that a coupling relationship between leisure tourism and the ecological environment exists, but how to realize their coordinated development on that basis is much less clear. In this paper, taking Xinjiang’s Ili region as the...
Soil moisture, as a crucial indicator of dryness, is an important research topic for dryness monitoring. In this study, we propose a new remote sensing dryness index for measuring soil moisture from spectral space. We first established a spectral spa...
The Jurassic was mainly a “greenhouse” period characterized by global warming and by significant peat accumulations in some continental basins. However, studies of Jurassic climate and environments have mainly focused on marine records and only a few...
The flat peach, an important commercial crop in the 143rd Regiment of Shihezi, China, is overwintered using plastic film mulching. Flat peaches are cultivated to boost the local temperate rural economy. The development of accurate maps of the spatial...
Foliage of jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) as a byproduct of agriculture, is a traditional nutraceutical material in China. Previous studies have shown that it is a rich resource of polyphenols. However, information on its complete phenolic profile an...
The high concentration of arsenic in coal does great harm to the environment. It is important to research the occurrence mode of As in coal to promote the removal of As in coal and understand the migration and transformation of As in coal. In this wo...
Determining a suitable “dry sowing and wet emergence” water control program for cotton fields in the arid regions of Northwest China is of great significance in saving water resources, improving economic efficiency, and promoting sustaina...
Ecologically fragile areas are confronted with the contradiction between economic development and ecological protection, especially in the Tuha region (Turpan and Hami), where the extremely vulnerable ecological environment limits local sustainable d...
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Under the background of intensifying global change, the frequent occurrence of agrometeorological disasters has an adverse impact on the social economy. Low-temperature weather in spring is one of the main agrometeorological disasters in Xinjiang. St...
The relationship between public investment and population migration is a classic topic in developing regions. With social and economic development, the role of public health services is paid high attention. However, empirical studies on the relations...
Although China’s urban air quality has improved, there are still many cities that do not meet China’s ambient air quality standards and experience serious air pollution problems, causing tremendous damage to people’s health and sust...
Cotton production makes an important contribution to the income of rural residents and the economy in Xinjiang province, which leads other provinces in terms of planted area, total production, and average yield of cotton in China. This study analyzed...
China faces a difficult choice of maintaining socioeconomic development and carbon emissions mitigation. Analyzing the decoupling relationship between economic development and carbon emissions and its driving factors from a regional perspective is th...
Background: The challenge of emerging antimicrobial resistance and variation in antibiotic use across provinces in China call for knowledge on antibiotic utilization at the regional level. This study aims to evaluate the long-term trends and patterns...
Fiscal imbalances in China are widening; the problem of fiscal sustainability in each province is becoming increasingly serious. However, so far, few studies have focused on the issue of the fiscal sustainability of China’s provinces. This pape...
Agriculture and crop production is the sector with the highest water demand, and because of water shortages and an unbalanced distribution of natural resources in China, improving the efficiency of agricultural water use is essential. In this study,...
Feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), a globally pervasive and highly pathogenic pathogen, has garnered significant attention recently due to the cross-species transmission of its variants. Despite the vast body of research conducted on FPV, studies expl...
This article addresses the challenges of water scarcity and climate change faced by cotton cultivation in the Xinjiang region of China. In response, a precise irrigation model based on reinforcement learning and the crop model DSSAT is proposed. The...
Rapid development in China has led to imbalances and inequities of ecological resources among the provinces and regions. In this study, an environmentally extended multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model was used to analyze the imbalances, inequitie...
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BACKGROUND: Current research about sustainability evaluations in urbanization pays limited attention to certain areas of the world, thus potentially leading to an incomplete portrayal of the rich connotation of sustainable development. In fact, the e...
The evaluation of regional water and energy consumption is of great significance to improving regional resource utilization. This paper analyzed the water and energy footprints in different provinces of China, considering regional economic levels. Th...
Microorganisms in the guts of insects enhance the adaptability of their hosts with different lifestyles, or those that live in different habitats. Tuta absoluta is an invasive pest that is a serious threat to tomato production in China. It has quickl...
Invasive species impact both the local biota and human economies and are a very serious threat to biodiversity. The American bullfrog was initially introduced into northwestern China and many other sites for aquacultural purposes. Then, the frogs esc...
Understanding the effects of climate change on potato yield is vital for food security in northwest China. Based on the long-term data of yields and meteorology, this study analysed the impacts of recent climate change on potato yields at a provincia...
Soil salinization is a global ecological and environmental problem, which is particularly serious in arid areas. The formation process of soil salinity is complex, and the interactive effects of natural causes and anthropogenic activities on soil sal...
The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, also known as Xinjiang, China, is notable for its high diversity and abundance of lichens. The purpose of this study was to examine species diversity and the distribution patterns of saxicolous lichens, family Me...
It is of great significance to systematically analyze the characteristics of the regional grain supply and demand balance, reveal the influence mechanism of crop sustainable development, and put forward effective countermeasures to achieve the goal o...
Construction land expansion significantly affects energy-related carbon emissions. This paper analyzed the effect of construction land expansion on energy-related carbon emissions in China and its provinces from 2001 to 2011 by using the logarithmic...
Wheat leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina, is one of the most common fungal diseases of wheat in China and occurs widely in various wheat-growing regions. To clarify the epidemic, spread rules, and population structure of P. triticina among diffe...
Cow milk is rich in proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and minerals; however, its precise nutrient content varies based on various factors. In the current study, we evaluated the differences in the fatty acid and protein contents of milk and the factors...
The growth of vehicle ownership not only brings opportunity for the economy, but also brings environment and transport problems, which is not good for sustainable transportation. It is of great significance to build supporting infrastructure and othe...
Incineration has been regarded as a promising method to respond to municipal solid waste (MSW) challenges. However, its high cost and health impacts are the main barriers to the development of incineration. This study aims to investigate the cost-ben...
While studies on students’ ethnic identity, national identity and social mobility gained relatively good research development in Western societies, little attention has been given to other social contexts, particularly non-Western societies lik...
Improving agricultural water use efficiency (WUE) and reducing the proportion of agricultural water consumption are of great significance for coping with the water crisis in the world, particularly in northwest China. However, considering the lack of...
Hubei Province is a significant center for cultural and trade exchange in Central China. However, since no nephrite deposit has been discovered in Hubei, nephrite artifacts excavated within its jurisdiction must have been obtained from other regions....
Promoting the sustainable development of virtual water trade is of great significance to safeguarding China’s water resource security and balanced regional economic growth. This study analyzes the virtual water trade network among 31 Chinese pr...
To understand the embodied carbon transfer in China’s domestic trade from 2007 to 2017 and its driving forces, we quantitatively measured the embodied carbon transfer among 30 provinces by using the Multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model, exp...
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