Qinghai Normal University

Younger Dryas Glacial Advances on the Tibetan Plateau

The Younger Dryas (YD) terminated the last glaciation and initiated the Holocene, which was accompanied by widespread glacial advances. Traditional scaling models, production rates, and outlier screening approaches for 10Be exposure dating often yield inconsistent formation ages...

Contrasting Growth and Physiological Response Profiles of Three Native Alpine Elymus Forage Grasses Under Combined Cadmium and PEG-6000-Induced Osmotic Stress

The co-occurrence of soil drought and cadmium (Cd) pollution represents an important combined-stress scenario in degraded alpine grasslands, yet comparative responses of native Elymus forage grasses remain poorly resolved. Seedlings of E. sibiricus cv. Chuancao, E. breviaristatus...

Aminosugar-FunctionalizedMicrospheres with SuperiorBoron Selectivity and Reusability: Synthesis, Performance, and ChelationMechanism

Abstract Traditional adsorbents often face challenges such as low adsorption capacity, poor selectivity, difficulties in regeneration, and limited stability, rendering them inadequate for boron-containing wastewater treatment. In this study, glycerol methacrylate (GMA) is graft-c...

Photovoltaic Microhabitats Reorganize Vegetation and Soil Carbon Pools in an Alpine Dryland Grassland

Utility-scale ground-mounted photovoltaic development is expanding across alpine dryland grasslands, creating engineered microhabitats with contrasting shading regimes, surface exposure, and soil hydro-physical conditions. Microhabitat-specific responses of vegetation and soil ca...