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ErYuan Liang
Earth Sciences
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Linking leaf elemental traits to biomass across forest biomes in the Himalayas
Plants require a number of essential elements in different proportions for ensuring their growth and development. The elemental concentrations in leaves reflect the functions and adaptations of plants under sp...
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Shifts of forest resilience after seismic disturbances in tectonically active regions
Forests in tectonically active regions are disturbed by earthquakes. Besides direct injuries to trees, earthquakes also induce stand-wide changes in hydrological conditions, whose effects on long-term forest g...
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Unexpected climate variability inferred from a 380-year tree-ring earlywood oxygen isotope record in the Karakoram, Northern Pakistan
To provide a long-term context for understanding the “Karakoram Anomaly” in recent glacier studies, we originally aimed to develop an annually resolved multi-century winter–spring precipitation record using tr...
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A tree-ring–based summer (June–July) minimum temperature reconstruction for the western Kunlun Mountains since AD 1681
Knowledge of past climatic variability for the Tibetan Plateau (TP), especially the northwestern part of it, is still limited due to the lack of long-term meteorological records. Within this study, we develope...
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A tree ring-based winter temperature reconstruction for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since 1340 CE
Climatic change is exhibiting significant effects on the ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau (TP), a climate-sensitive area. In particularly, winter frost, freezing events and snow avalanche frequently causing se...
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Open AccessSynoptic-scale circulation patterns during summer derived from tree rings in mid-latitude Asia
Understanding past and recent climate and atmospheric circulation variability is vital for regions that are affected by climate extremes. In mid-latitude Asia, however, the synoptic climatology is complex and ...
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Open AccessRing-widths of the above tree-line shrub Rhododendron reveal the change of minimum winter temperature over the past 211 years in Southwestern China
Changes in minimum winter temperature (MWT) and their potential effects on plant growth and development have been gaining increased scientific attention. To better understand these changes across long temporal...
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Are Karakoram temperatures out of phase compared to hemispheric trends?
In contrast to a global retreating trend, glaciers in the Karakoram showed stability and/or mass gaining during the past decades. This “Karakoram Anomaly” has been assumed to result from an out-of-phase temper...
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Global warming-related tree growth decline and mortality on the north-eastern Tibetan plateau
Semi-arid forests at the limit of their existence close to the Gobi Desert in Inner Asia might be vulnerable to warming-induced drought stress. Yet, not much is known about the impact of global-change-type dro...
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The 1920S Drought Recorded by Tree Rings and Historical Documents in the Semi-Arid and Arid Areas of Northern China
Using a network of tree-ring data, we show that there had been significant growth decline in the 1920s and early 1930s throughout a wide area of northern China. This growth depression is indicative of a severe...
