Disappearance of Mountain Glaciers in East Asian Monsoon Region since Onset of the Last Glacial Period by Rui Liu, Shuying Zang, Lin Zhao, Chunlei Wang, Boxiong Zhang, Xiaodong Wu

“…By comparing the glacial glaciations in the East Asian Monsoon region with western China, we found that there were significant differences between the extent, onset time, and length of glacial periods. …”
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An analysis of the domestic resumption of social production and life under the COVID-19 epidemic. by Xinliang Xu, Shihao Wang, Jinhui Dong, Zhicheng Shen, Shuwan Xu

“…Provinces in eastern China have more reported cases than those in western China, and provinces adjacent to Hubei have more confirmed COVID-19 cases than nonadjacent provinces. …”
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A chironomid-based mean July temperature inference model from the south-east margin of the Tibetan Plateau, China by E. Zhang, J. Chang, Y. Cao, H. Tang, P. Langdon, J. Shulmeister, R. Wang, X. Yang, J. Shen

“…A chironomid-based calibration training set comprised of 100 lakes from south-western China was established. Multivariate ordination analyses were used to investigate the relationship between the distribution and abundance of chironomid species and 18 environmental variables from these lakes. …”
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Epidemiologic changes of infectious diseases in the post-SARS era in China, 2004–2018 by Yizhe Luo, Binxiong Wu, Yameng Xu, Lele Ai, Heng Lv, Jiahong Wu, Weilong Tan

“…Incidence rates vary considerably across geographic regions. Western China has a disproportionate burden of infectious diseases compared with eastern regions. …”
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Variability in Minimal-Damage Sap Flow Observations and Whole-Tree Transpiration Estimates in a Coniferous Forest by Junjun Yang, Zhibin He, Pengfei Lin, Jun Du, Quanyan Tian, Jianmin Feng, Yufeng Liu, Lingxia Guo, Guohua Wang, Jialiang Yan, Weijun Zhao

“…The study was conducted in a catchment in the Qilian Mountains of western China. The results showed that an incomplete diameter at breast height (DBH) range contributed to 28.5% of the overestimation of the sapwood area when the DBH > 10 cm and 22.6% of the underestimation of the sapwood area when the DBH < 5 cm. …”
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Long-term changes of regional ozone in China: implications for human health and ecosystem impacts by Xiaobin Xu, Weili Lin, Wanyun Xu, Junli Jin, Ying Wang, Gen Zhang, Xiaochun Zhang, Zhiqiang Ma, Yuanzhen Dong, Qianli Ma, Dajiang Yu, Zou Li, Dingding Wang, Huarong Zhao

“…Large and significant increases of ozone are detected at the background site in the NCP, moderate increases at the global baseline site in western China, significant decreases at the northwestern edge of China, and nearly no trend at other sites. …”
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High-resolution ensemble projections and uncertainty assessment of regional climate change over China in CORDEX East Asia by H. Gu, H. Gu, Z. Yu, Z. Yu, C. Yang, C. Yang, Q. Ju, Q. Ju, T. Yang, T. Yang, D. Zhang

“…The added values for RCMs are confirmed by comparing the performance of RCMs and global climate models (GCMs) in reproducing annual and seasonal mean precipitation and temperature during the historical period. (2) For future (2030–2049) climate, the MME indicates consistent warming trends at around 1 °C in the entire domain and projects pronounced warming in northern and western China. The annual precipitation is likely to increase in most of the simulation region, except for the Tibetan Plateau. (3) Generally, the future projected change in annual and seasonal mean temperature by RCMs is nearly consistent with the results from the driving GCM. …”
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Outpatient health-seeking behavior of residents in Zhejiang and Qinghai Province, China by Minzhuo Huang, Hao Zhang, Yuxuan Gu, Jingming Wei, Shuyan Gu, Xuemei Zhen, Xiaoqian Hu, Xueshan Sun, Hengjin Dong

“…This study aimed to explore the outpatient health-seeking behavior and compare the influencing factors of residents in Zhejiang and Qinghai Province, which represent the situation in eastern and western China. Thus, this research will provide evidence for health resource allocation and health reform. …”
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Physicochemical characteristics and sources of atmospheric dust deposition in snow packs on the glaciers of western Qilian Mountains, China by Zhiwen Dong, Dahe Qin, Shichang Kang, Jiawen Ren, Jizu Chen, Xiaoqing Cui, Zhiheng Du, Xiang Qin

“…Volume size distributions of dust particles showed single-modal structures having volume median diameters from 3 to 22 μm, which is comparable to the results of dust deposition on glaciers of the adjacent Tianshan Mountains in western China. SEM–EDX analysis suggested that dust particles were mainly composed of mineral particles, besides some fly ash particles and soot. …”
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Socioeconomic Status and Tooth Loss Impact on Oral Health–Related Quality of Life in Chinese Elderly by Yanjun Lyu, Shaoyong Chen, Andi Li, Tingting Zhang, Xiaojuan Zeng, Suren Rao Sooranna

“…Objective: We studied the association between the socioeconomic status (SES), tooth loss, and oral health–related quality of life (OHRQoL) in an adult cohort in western China. As socioeconomic inequalities in oral health are often neglected in oral health promotion. we aimed to verify the impact of SES on tooth loss and OHRQoL. …”
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Fruit ripening in Lycium barbarum and Lycium ruthenicum is associated with distinct gene expression patterns by Jianhua Zhao, Haoxia Li, Yue Yin, Wei An, Xiaoya Qin, Yajun Wang, Yunfang Fan, Yanlong Li, Youlong Cao

“…A third closely related species, a wild perennial thorny shrub native to north‐western China, Lycium ruthenicum (LR; known as Russian box thorn, and its fruit as black wolfberry), has become a popular choice for combating soil desertification and for alleviating soil salinity/alkalinity due to its high resistance to the harsh environment of saline deserts. …”
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Chinese blue days: a novel index and spatio-temporal variations by Su Wang, Gang Huang, Jintai Lin, Kaiming Hu, Lin Wang, Hainan Gong

“…At regional scales, the CBD exhibit an increasing trend >4 d/10 y in western China and a decreasing trend <−2 d/10 y in southeastern China, northwestern Xinjiang, and Qinghai. …”
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Vegetation EVI changes and response to natural factors and human activities based on geographically and temporally weighted regression by Guangjie Wang, Wenfu Peng, Lindan Zhang, Ji Zhang, Jiayao Xiang

“…This study used Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) data obtained through Google Earth Engine (GEE), Theil-Sen, and Mann-Kendall methods to analyze the spatial-temporal patterns and trends of vegetation changes in Sichuan, western China from 2000 to 2020. The Geographical and Temporal Weighted Regression (GTWR) method was applied to deal with spatial and temporal nonstationarity simultaneously. …”
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Using UAVs to assess the relationship between alpine meadow bare patches and disturbance by pikas in the source region of Yellow River on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau by Jianguo Zhang, Dawei Liu, Baoping Meng, Jianjun Chen, Xiaoyun Wang, Hui Jiang, Yue Yu, Shuhua Yi

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Tunable domino effect of thermomagnetic instabilities in superconducting films with multiply-connected topological structures by Lu Jiang, Cun Xue, Stefan Marinković, E Fourneau, Tie-Quan Xu, Xin-Wei Cai, N D Nguyen, A V Silhanek, You-He Zhou

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Relationship between area size and elevational distribution pattern of cryptic pheasant species in Mts. Gaoligong, China by Rong-Xing Wang, Ying Gao, Xiao-Fei Zhao, Matthew B. Scott, Zhi-Pang Huang, Wen Xiao

“…In this study, we conducted three-dimensional map-based interview survey (3DIS) with local human communities that inhabit the same environments as the pheasants in Mts. Gaoligong, Western China. We obtained distributional information for 15 pheasant species, which enabled further analyses to be conducted. …”
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Assessing the impacts of drought on net primary productivity of global land biomes in different climate zones by Yangyang Liu, Ronglei Zhou, Zhongming Wen, Muhammad Khalifa, Cheng Zheng, Hanyu Ren, Zhaoying Zhang, Zhenqian Wang

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Fairness in the Distribution of General Practitioner Resources in Chinese Mainland by KOU Ruxin, MEI Kangni, BI Yuqing, CHEN Tong, DENG Shengen, XING Jiarun, WANG Qianqian, WANG Mengxue, LI Wei

“…The Theil index was used to analyze differences in the distribution of GP resources in eastern, central and western China. Results The number of GPs in China increased from 209 083 in 2016 to 408 820 in 2020, showing a growth rate 95.53%. …”
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On the attribution of changing water surface evaporation across China by Xiaoxiang Guan, Cuishan Liu, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Zhenxin Bao, Junliang Jin

“…For example, the changing n and RH had shown increasing power on Ep variations in the western China climate zones. Comparatively, the u2 has been losing its power in decreasing Ep in most regions of China due to the slowdown in the declining rates of wind speed. …”
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Preventive behaviours and family inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study in China by Yisheng Ye, Ruijun Wu, Yao Ge, Tao Wang, Xin Yao, Yao Yang, Chengxu Long, Fangfei Chen, Shangfeng Tang, Rui Huang

“…The directional stratified convenient sampling method was used to select 4704 participants from eight provinces in eastern, central, and western China. The questionnaire included demographic information, household variables, and five target prevention behaviours. …”
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