Xilinhot City is a significant pastoral city in China where groundwater serves as the primary water source for the cold and arid pastoral regions. The formation and evolution of material components in groundwater, as well as groundwater quality, are...
Understanding the water movement in reconstructed soil and its efficacy on local vegetation is critical for the ecological reclamation of mine lands. This study employed field experiments and a numerical model to investigate the water movement in rec...
The combination of seasonal shutdowns, water conveyance, cold, and drought can easily lead to the deterioration of the anti-seepage system and loess foundation of the canal, which contributes to the destruction of the slope. To reveal the failure mec...
Particle size grading impacts salt-frost heaving and dissolution collapse events of salinized soil on northwestern China’s arid and cold region highways. However, the influencing mechanisms remain unclear and the impact of varying particle size...
Mongolia is a semi-arid, highly continental region with highly variable precipitation and river discharge. The groundwater aquifer located near Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, is the only one source for city water supply consumption, and i...
There are many factors influencing the energy consumption of buildings in complex working conditions. In order to study the factors influencing the energy consumption of residential buildings with nearly zero energy in cold and arid regions of northw...
Extracting river channels from remote sensing images is crucial for locating river water bodies and efficiently managing water resources, especially in cold and arid regions. The dynamic nature of river channels in these regions during the flood seas...
Groundwater resources are scarce in the cold and arid regions of north China. Moreover, regional water resource replenishment without external sources remains difficult. This water deficit has become a major factor restricting the sustainable develop...
Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) estimations in arid regions are challenging because this process is highly dynamic over time and space. Nevertheless, several studies have shown good results when implementing empirical regression formulae that, despit...
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission was designed to provide global mapping of soil moisture (SM) on nested 3, 9, and 36 km earth grids measured by L-band passive and active microwave sensors. The validation of SMAP SM products is crucial...
Ice surface albedo is an important factor in various optical remote sensing technologies used to determine the distribution of snow or melt water on the ice, and to judge the formation or melting of lake ice in winter, especially in cold and arid are...
Crop yield losses have escalated worldwide due to extreme and/or prolonged drought periods as well as insufficient irrigation. In the cold and arid regions of northern China, the difficulty of straw decomposition is a regional problem, which is undou...
In response to water scarcity in the Bashang area of northwest Hebei Province, a cold and arid region in north China, and to address the diminishing groundwater levels caused by pumping irrigation, this study investigated the impact of rainwater tank...
Coal extraction in China is increasingly moving towards colder regions such as Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. However, these mines face land restoration challenges due to a scarcity of fertile topsoil. This study explores the potential of coal gangue,...
Hulun Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the Eurasian steppe, is a critically climate-sensitive water body facing severe ecological threats. This systematic review synthesizes multidisciplinary evidence from 1961 to 2025 to examine the characterist...
Climate change and eutrophication have significant impacts on aquatic ecosystems, with phytoplankton playing a critical role as primary producers. This study investigates the relationships between phytoplankton communities and environmental and meteo...
To investigate the changes in heavy metal content in the sub glacial water during the freezing and thawing process of seasonally frozen lakes, the Wuliangsuhai Lake in northern China was taken as the research object. The ice thickness, water depth, a...
Phosphorus (P) is one of the essential nutrients for alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) growth, but P deficiency in soil is a common phenomenon. Applying an appropriate amount of P fertilizer for alfalfa in the establishment year improves winter survival,...
Soil moisture (SM) retrieved from satellite and spaceborn sensors provides useful parameters for earth system models (ESMs). The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) SM products released by the European Space Agency have been widely used in many humid/sem...
Open-pit coal mining inevitably damages the soil and vegetation in mining areas. Currently, the restoration of cold and arid open-pit mines in Xinjiang, China, is still in the initial exploratory stage, especially the changes in soil nutrients in spo...
(1) Background: Climate change significantly impacts the phenology and dynamics of radial tree growth in alpine dryland forests. However, there remains a scarcity of reliable information on the physiological processes of tree growth and cambial pheno...
Conservation agriculture (CA) is becoming increasingly attractive to farmers due to advantages such as lower production costs and less destruction of soil structures compared to the conventional tillage. The cultivars introduced for the conventional...
With the rising concerns about climate change and continuous increase in the salinity of soil, it is essential to understand the C-cycling functioning of saline soil to better predict the ecological functions and health of soil. Microbes play critica...
This study investigated the mechanisms of soil water–salt and nitrogen transport and optimal strategies under freeze–thaw (F-T) cycles in the salinized farmlands of the Hetao Irrigation District. A combined approach of field monitoring an...
Joint multivariate distribution and calculation of return period are essential in enhancing drought risk assessment and promoting the sustainable development of water resources. Aiming to address the increasingly serious drought situation in the Yell...
The sustainability of dryland vegetation growth over the Silk Road Economic Belt is under threat of water shortage, and the determination of water carrying capacity for vegetation is critically essential to balance water supply and water demand for t...
Quantifying extreme weather events (EWEs) and understanding their impacts on vegetation phenology is crucial for assessing ecosystem stability under climate change. This study systematically investigated the ecosystem growing season length (GL) respo...
Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) is a semi-arid, oil-producing industrial crop that have been widely cultivated in tropical arid region. Low temperature is one of the major environmental stress that impair jojoba’s growth, development and yield an...
Water shortages and soil salinization are the bottlenecks of sustainable agricultural development in many arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Brackish water as a supplementary water source for agricultural irrigation is an important way to solve...
Typical climatic environments such as UV radiation, high temperature and strong wind in cold and arid regions have a significant effect on asphalt aging. The intent of this work is to reveal the evolution law of natural aging of SBS-modified asphalt...
Due to the favorable condition of arid and cold climates for ever-increasing photovoltaic installations by supporting them to operate around their maximum power, it would be interesting to evaluate the solar potential of this climate. In this study,...
This study investigates, for the first time, the urbanization effect (UE) on local extreme climate events in Urumqi, China, based on 22 indices of climate extremes, which are calculated with daily observation data from 1976 to 2018. These analyses re...
Studying the dynamic changes of extreme temperatures and associated large-scale atmospheric circulation is important for predicting the occurrence of extreme temperatures and reducing their adverse impact and damage. Based on the surface temperature...
Dew, a key component of Non-Rainfall Water Inputs (NRWIs), plays a disproportionately significant role in land–atmosphere interactions. This review synthesizes advances in understanding its ecological, hydrological, and environmental effects, q...
Buildings are significant drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. Improving the thermal comfort of occupants in free-running buildings and avoiding active and fossil fuel-based systems is the main challenge in many cities worldwid...
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A river water quality spatial profile has a diverse pattern of variation over different climatic regions. To comprehend this phenomenon, our study evaluated the spatial scale variation of the Water Quality Index (WQI). The study was carried out over...
Ecological vulnerability, as an important evaluation method reflecting regional ecological status and the degree of stability, is the key content in global change and sustainable development. Most studies mainly focus on changes of ecological vulnera...
The Loess Plateau of China (CLP) is located in the transition zone from a semi-humid climate zone to semi-arid and arid climate zones. It is influenced by the westerly circulation, plateau monsoon, and East Asian monsoon circulation, and the drought...
Ancient Andean agricultural landscapes have been the subject of a large number of archaeological and agro-ecological studies, which generally refer to regions with favourable environmental conditions or, in the case of arid and semi-arid environments...
Desertification is acknowledged as a significant global ecological challenge. In the current context of advancing ecological governance and sustainable development, it is imperative to explore optimal solutions that reconcile economic and ecological...
To support the national goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, this study proposes a household carbon emission prediction model based on Gene Expression Programming (GEP) for low-carbon retrofitting of aging residential areas in arid-cold reg...
This paper explores how freeze–thaw cycles affect the mechanical properties and pore structure in cement–silt-modified eolian sand. The study addresses freeze–thaw durability issues for cold, arid region engineering. We tested sampl...
Low-temperature stress is an important limiting factor affecting citrus growth and fruit yields. Therefore, increasing citrus cold stress tolerance may enhance the growth, yield, and quality of citrus production in marginal areas. The objective of th...
We present a timeseries of flood and slumping phases in central Europe for the past 65,000 years from event layers in sediment cores from infilled Eifel maar basins (Germany). Palynological, petrographic and organic carbon (chlorins) records are used...
Previous studies suggested that, generally, the climate of early Mars would have been semi-arid when the surface temperatures were above freezing. On early Mars, closed-basin lakes would have been created; however, the hydrogeochemical cycles of the...
For arid and semi-arid regions like Xinjiang, analyzing the spatiotemporal patterns of September precipitation and their atmospheric circulation teleconnections is crucial for ecosystem preservation. This research examined how the August Asian–...
The exploration of the genetic resources of drought-resistant trees is highly significant for improving the ecological environment. Elm trees are widely distributed in the cold and arid regions of the Northern Hemisphere and have a strong tolerance f...
Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, a traditional ethnic medicinal herb, is a rare broad-leaved evergreen shrub in the arid region of central Asia that can survive under extremely low temperatures during winter. In this study, we investigated the cold stress...
Continuous and accurate spatiotemporal precipitation data plays an important role in regional climate and hydrology research, particularly in the arid inland regions where rain gauges are sparse and unevenly distributed. The main objective of this st...
High soil sulfate levels can inhibit crop growth and accelerate concrete infrastructure degradation, highlighting the critical importance of rapid and accurate sulfate content determination. Nevertheless, conventional analytical techniques are labori...
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