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Soil heavy metal distribution is a key issue in environmental and health research. In recent years, an increasing number of anthropogenic disturbances have been identified on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, leadi...
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Causes and Changes of Drought in China: Research Progress and Prospects
Drought is one of the most serious and extensive natural hazards in the world. Subject to monsoon climate variability, China is particularly influenced by drought hazards, especially meteorological drought. Ba...
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Characteristics of drought in Southern China under climatic warming, the risk, and countermeasures for prevention and control
The temporal and spatial characteristics of drought disasters in Southern China were analyzed by using the daily observation data from 252 meteorological stations and drought disaster data in 14 provinces, aut...
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Risk evaluation of agricultural disaster impacts on food production in southern China by probability density method
Meteorological disaster occurred frequently in China and inflicted great losses to agriculture. The strengthening of disaster risk assessment is necessary, which also has important practical significance for r...
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Changes in terrestrial surface dry and wet conditions on the Loess Plateau (China) during the last half century
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