… There was a slight increase of cropland area in farming-grazing transitional zone, farming-forest
transitional zone, and oasis across Northeast China, Northwest China and North China. …

… The North China Craton (NCC) is a classical example of ancient destroyed cratons. Since …
North China Craton Destruction Project by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, …

Regional severe haze represents an enormous environmental problem in China, … fundamental
mechanisms of severe haze formation in northern China, focusing on emission sources, …

… However, we find that a more important and pervasive factor for the increase in ozone in the
North China Plain is the rapid decrease in PM 2.5 , slowing down the reactive uptake of HO …

The present study was carried out in a mesotrophic subtropical plateau lake, Erhai, located
in southwest of China. The succession of phytoplankton functional groups and the …

… in southeast China and the … driving factors of LAI, defined as the driving factor that contributes
the most to the increase (or decrease) in LAI in each vegetated grid cell. The driving factors …

… mostly in the fall for northern China and in the spring for southern China. Land-use situations
… and driven by economic interest, large areas of grassland in northern China were reclaimed…

The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian
crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. His …

… −1 in northern, southeast and southwest China in the 2000s, … the northern China plain (the
central area of northern China) … All these changes can be linked to a common driving factor, …

… The Loess Plateau of northern China, for instance, was completely deforested in … I have
identified five anthropogenic factors as major driving forces of landuse change in China: …