The longest artificial highway shelterbelt flowing across the Taklamakan desert was conducted in 2005. To ensure sustainable development of and shelterbelts, scholars have carried out a large number studies on since 1991. This review is based 30-year monitoring program from 1991 to 2021. We find that, with increase age, some ecological economic benefits gradually appear, such as saving transpor...

• Bacterial richness declined but fungal increased under salinization. Bacteria did not become interactively compact or facilitative Fungi exhibited more compartmentalized and competitive patterns Fungal stability showed steeper increases salinization than bacterial stability. Soil is a typical environmental challenge in arid regions worldwide. Salinity stress plant convergent adaptations inter...

The saline character of water imposes restrictions on plant growth and survival in the Taklamakan Desert, China. Experiments were conducted woody species, Tamarix ramosissima, Populus euphratica, Haloxylon ammodendron grown under different levels salinity to elucidate their adaptation a environment. H. accumulated large amounts Na+ Cl- leaves. P. euphratica restricted redundant transport shoots...

The Taklamakan Desert, with an area of 337600 km2 and located in the Tarim Basin southern Xinjiang, is largest sand sea mid-latitudes on Earth. Previous understanding about palaeoclimate this vast arid landscape was mostly deciphered from loess sequences found surrounding mountains, while only a few in situ investigations were carried out. In l...

Satellite measurements of global aerosol properties are very useful in constraining aerosol parameterization in climate models. The reliability of different data sets in representing global and regional aerosol variability becomes an essential question. In this study, we present the results of a comparison using combined principal component analysis (CPCA), applied to monthly mean, mapped (Leve...