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Data-Driven Modeling for Crop Map** and Yield Estimation
In the context of climate change, crop map** and yield estimation are critical for improving crop management and ensuring food security. Data-driven methods have succeeded in crop map** and yield estimatio...
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Mechanistic Insights into Mulching and Plant Physiological Attributes Under Abiotic Stresses
Drought, salinity, temperature extremes, and heavy metals are the major environmental factors that limit sustainable crop production worldwide and consequently restrict crop yield. There is a dire need for env...
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Genome Editing Toward Wheat Improvement
Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the important field cereal crops, providing human and animal nutrition and maintaining food security globally. Thereby, it is essential to improve wheat for its economic traits...
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Desert Steppe Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese desert steppe ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type, simply discusses the relevant physical features and...
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Sandy Grassland Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese sandy grassland ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type; simply discusses the relevant physical features a...
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Meadow Grassland Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese meadow grassland ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type; simply discusses the relevant physical features ...
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Tussock and Savanna Ecosystems
This chapter focuses on Chinese tussock and savanna rangeland ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type; simply discusses the relevant physi...
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Introduction
This chapter discusses definitions concerning grasslands of the world that have been put forward by different authors, adopted by different countries or regions, or employed in different research fields of the...
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Natural Conditions Influencing Chinese Grassland Ecosystems
This chapter elaborates upon the geographic, geomorphic, edaphic, and climatic factors that influence the genesis, distribution, and development of Chinese grassland ecosystems. Its first section mainly deals ...
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Types and Distribution of Chinese Grassland Ecosystems
This chapter deals with the types and distribution of Chinese grassland ecosystems. Firstly, it discusses the methodology and approaches employed for classification of Chinese grassland ecosystems. Secondly, i...
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Typical Steppe Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese typical steppe ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type, simply discusses the relevant physical features an...
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Shrubby Steppe Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese shrubby steppe ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type; simply discusses the relevant physical features an...
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Alpine Steppe Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese alpine steppe ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type, simply discusses the relevant physical features and...
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Desert Rangeland Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese desert rangeland ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type; simply discusses the relevant physical features ...
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Marsh Grassland Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese marsh grassland ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type; simply discusses the relevant physical features a...
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Overview of Chinese Grassland Ecosystems
This chapter generally elaborates upon the fundamental characteristics of Chinese grassland ecosystems as a whole. Firstly, it introduces the major types and distribution patterns of Chinese grasslands in term...
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Major Regional Grasslands in China
This chapter introduces the principal regional grasslands of China, focusing on the geographic and administrative extents, physical conditions, vegetation types, flora, fauna, land-use pattern, and grassland-b...
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Meadow Steppe Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese meadow steppe ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type, simply discusses the relevant physical features and...
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Montane Steppe Ecosystem
This chapter focuses on Chinese montane steppe ecosystems. It introduces in brief the areal extent and provincially based distribution of this ecosystem type, simply discusses the relevant physical features an...
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Uptake and Distribution of 14C-Labeled Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes by Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Uptake of 14C-labeled multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to wheat seedlings (Triticum aestivum L.) was evaluated. After exposing the plants to MWCNT suspensions for 5 days, the quantity and distribution of MW...