Response of Soil Organic Carbon Stock to Bryophyte Removal Is Regulated by Forest Types in Southwest China by Deyun Chen, Mutian Cai, Debao Li, Shiming Yang, Jianping Wu

“…Here, bryophytes were artificially removed to simulate the loss of bryophytes in two forests in Southwest China, i.e., evergreen broad-leaved forest and temperate coniferous forest. …”
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Effects of short-term grazing prohibition on soil physical and chemical properties of meadows in Southwest China by Guiqing Zhu, Chaoxiang Yuan, Hede Gong, Yanling Peng, Changjiang Huang, Chuansheng Wu, Huachao Duan

“…Methods In Potatso National Park, Southwest China, we selected experimental plots in the artificial grazing meadow area to study the effects of grazing prohibition on plant and soil indexes in subalpine meadows and swamp meadows. …”
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Investigation of optimal gestational weight gain for twin pregnancy in Southwest China: a retrospective study by Li Gao, Cuirong Lei, Shuwei Zhou, Qianqian Liao, Lingwei Mei, Qimei Zhong, Xia Lan, Ya Chen, Lan Wang

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Spatial-temporal dynamics and evolution of ecological security in a rapid urbanization city, Southwest China by Yunchuan Dai, Yuying Diao, Chongyang Dai, Yi Li, Guiyan Sun, Babar Zahoor, Dayong Li

“…Based on land use data from 2000, 2010, and 2020 of Chongqing Municipality in southwest China, we evaluated the spatial-temporal variation of ESPs by integrating InVEST and Circuit Theory. …”
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Monitoring the Reduced Resilience of Forests in Southwest China Using Long-Term Remote Sensing Data by Hao Jiang, Lisheng Song, Yan Li, Mingguo Ma, Lei Fan

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Variation Characteristics of Rainstorms and Floods in Southwest China and Their Relationships with Atmospheric Circulation in the Summer Half-Year by Qingxia Xie, Xiaoping Gu, Gang Li, Tianran Tang, Zhiyu Li

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Indigofera jintongpenensis (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae, Indigofereae), a new species from Yunnan, southwest China by Lan Yao, Yan Yang, Xue-Li Zhao, Qiu-Ping Wang, Huan-Chong Wang

“…Indigofera jintongpenensis, a new species of the subfamily Papilionoideae of Fabaceae, is described and illustrated from Yunnan, southwest China. The new species is characterised by having a prostrate habit, flexible stems and branches, as well as spreading, sub-basifixed, asymmetrically 2-branched trichomes covering the entire plant, discoid calyx, and racemose inflorescences 6–8-flowered, short, 1–2 (–3.5) cm in length, apparently shorter than the leaf. …”
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The complete chloroplast genome of Acer catalpifolium (Sapindaceae), a rare and endangered plant in Southwest China by Ao Wang, Jian He, Shenjian Xu, Linlin Peng, Liangcheng Zhao

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Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using the Stacking Ensemble Machine Learning Method in Lushui, Southwest China by Xudong Hu, Han Zhang, Hongbo Mei, Dunhui Xiao, Yuanyuan Li, Mengdi Li

“…A total of 388 landslides and 12 conditioning factors in the Lushui area (Southwest China) were used as the dataset to develop landslide modeling. …”
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The Time Lag Effect Improves Prediction of the Effects of Climate Change on Vegetation Growth in Southwest China by Meng Wang, Zhengfeng An, Shouyan Wang

“…Climate change is known to significantly affect vegetation development in the terrestrial system. Because Southwest China (SW) is affected by westerly winds and the South and East Asian monsoon, its climates are complex and changeable, and the time lag effect of the vegetation’s response to the climate has been rarely considered, making it difficult to establish a link between the SW region’s climate variables and changes in vegetation growth rate. …”
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Raw material hoards, ritual deposits, or disturbed burials? Object pits in the mountains of Southwest China by Hein, A

“…In the mountains of Southwest China, however, object deposits are rather common; here, a number of pits containing complete objects arranged in an organized manner have been reported, yet, never discussed in detail. …”

Resettlement strategies and Han imperial expansion into southwest China: a multimethod approach to colonialism and migration by Wu, X, Hein, A, Zhang, X, Jin, Z, Wei, D, Huang, F, Yin, X

“…The present paper shows how concepts of colonialism and migration research can be successfully applied to understand Han imperial expansion into southwest China and how the Chinese material can in turn contribute to developing theories and methods of colonialism research further. …”

Characterization of mitogenome for pumpkin fruit fly, Zeugodacus tau (Walker) (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Kunming, Southwest China and the phylogeny within subfamily Dacinae by Jian-Hong Liu, Ping-Fan Jia, Wen-Li Dan, Xiao-Hong Zhou, Mei-Jun Yang

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Nitrogen and phosphorus losses via surface runoff from tea plantations in the mountainous areas of Southwest China. by Xingcheng Huang, Darong Zhen, Xiaona Lu, Yarong Zhang, Yanling Liu, Yu Li, Taiming Jiang

“…Nowadays, there has been a rapid expansion of tea plantations in the mountainous areas of southwest China. However, little research has focused on the pollution problems caused by the losses of nitrogen and phosphorus from tea plantations in this area. …”
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Seven new species of Meta C.L. Koch, 1836 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) from Southwest China by Lu-Yu Wang, Muhammad Irfan, Hui-Ming Chen, Zhi-Sheng Zhang

“… Seven new species of the genus Meta C.L. Koch, 1836 from Southwest China are described here: M. bowo sp. nov. (♂♀), M. cona sp. nov. (♂♀), M. gyirong sp. nov. (♂), M. hongyuan sp. nov. (♂♀), M. tibet sp. nov. (♂♀), M. wanglang sp. nov. (♂♀) and M. weining sp. nov. (♂♀). …”
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Response of Preferential Soil Flow to Different Infiltration Rates and Vegetation Types in the Karst Region of Southwest China by Xiaoqing Kan, Jinhua Cheng, Fang Hou

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Spatial variations in soil erodibility induced by rock outcropping on sloping cropland in the karst region of Southwest China by Lei Chen, Keli Zhang, Yetong Li

“…Sloping croplands in karst areas of Southwest China usually contain a multitude of rock outcrops with diameters larger than 25 cm. …”
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Genetic Polymorphism Analysis of 24 Y-STRs in a Han Chinese Population in Luzhou, Southwest China by Jiewen Fu, Binghui Song, Jie Qian, Ting He, Hanchun Chen, Jingliang Cheng, Junjiang Fu

“…The Luzhou region is located in southwest China, at the junction of three provinces. The unique historical factors contribute to the genetic polymorphism information. …”
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Evaluation, comparison, and unique features of ecological security in southwest China: A case study of Yunnan Province by Bo Xie, Patrick Jones, Rajeev Dwivedi, Lili Bao, Ruobing Liang

“…Yunnan Province is part of the Yun-Gun Plateau in southwest China with rich ecological resources and special geographic features, resulting in considerable ecological security. …”
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Machine learning-based grassland aboveground biomass estimation and its response to climate variation in Southwest China by Wenjun Liu, Cong Xu, Zhiming Zhang, Hans De Boeck, Hans De Boeck, Yanfen Wang, Yanfen Wang, Liankai Zhang, Liankai Zhang, Xiongwei Xu, Xiongwei Xu, Chen Zhang, Chen Zhang, Guiren Chen, Guiren Chen, Can Xu, Can Xu

“…This study demonstrated that integrating SAR into grassland AGB estimation led to a remote sensing estimation model that greatly improved the accuracy of modeled mountain grassland AGB in southwest China, where the grassland consists of a complex mix of grass and shrubs.…”
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