“guardian of the hearth and fire,” remained with his parents until their death and received the residual heritage. It was convenient that Jöchi could in this way be placed at the greatest distance from the ancient homeland because he got on poorly with his brothers, who considered him...
The Northern Yuan at its greatest extent. In the chaos of the late 12th century, a chieftain named Temüjin finally succeeded in uniting the Mongol tribes between Manchuria and the Altai Mountains. In 1206, he took the title Genghis Khan, and waged a series of military campaigns – renowned ...
Deep drainage in sandy areas depends on the rain- fall intensity to a great extent, while non-vegetated sandy areas experiencing short, high-intensity rainfall events are more likely to display a larger fraction of rainfall as recharge (Wang et al., 2004). As shown in our study, large ...
Global wildfire frequency and extent are expected to increase under projected climate change in the twenty-first century, yet little is known about how hum
especially due to its maternally inherited nature. By looking at the divergence of the peregrine W chromosome from the gyrfalcon’s and saker’s, we gained an insight into some of the genes that underwent selection, and hence the physiological, morphological, and reproductive processes that contribu...
Fig. 7. Temporal variations in permafrost extent simulated by the Fn model (a) and its mutation analysis (b) during 1950–2022 in Mongolia. Mongolian permafrost is sensitive to climate change, and significant summer warming and winter cooling since 1990 are affecting permafrost dynamics. Summer wa...
Precipitation has the greatest influence on the spatial distribution of desertification, followed by VPD, PE, wind speed, and elevation. The number of livestock, soil type, slope, and aspect have little influence on the spatial distribution of desertification. Therefore, meteorological factors dominate...
Thrust blocks within the centre of the range expose basement schists and mylonitic granite suggesting that the greatest uplift and crustal exhumation has occurred within the core of the restraining bend, although much of the exhumation is likely to be due to older Palaeozoic structural events. The...
This indicates that the change of the generated RET with the smallest slope b is the most significant and the influence of corresponding climatic variable on RET is also the greatest. It can be clearly found that there are prominent differences in slope b between the original RET and generated...
Siberia, its name derived from the Tatar term for “sleeping land,” is notorious for the length and severity of its almost snowless winters: in Sakha, minimum temperatures of −90 °F (−68 °C) have been recorded. The climate becomes increasingly harsh eastward, while precipitation also...