The current study investigates the role of tier-one cities China in affecting regional disparities within and across its five mega-city clusters, through lens housing market. For that purpose, an equilibrating ripple effect is differentiated from a disturbing information cascade effect. Evidence suggests modest slow-moving force originated Hong Kong has flowed all most tier-two mainland, indica...

Drylands are expected to be affected by greater global drought variability in the future; consequently, how dryland ecosystems respond events needs urgent attention. In this study, Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Standardized Precipitation Evaporation (SPEI) were employed quantify resistance of ecosystem productivity drylands northern China between 1982 2015. The relationships temporal t...

Climate and land cover changes are increasing threats to biodiversity globally. However, potentially varying biotic sensitivity is a major source of uncertainty for translating environmental extinction risks. To reduce this uncertainty, we assessed how risks will be affected by future human-driven changes, focusing on 554 species from 52 disjunct plant genera between eastern Asia (EAS) North Am...

The postcranial axial skeleton of actinopterygian fishes is typically divided into three regions: (1) an anterior abdominal region, (2) a posterior caudal region and (3) those vertebrae supporting the fin. However, in some actinopterygians, more finely subdivided, with up to six morphologically distinct sub-regions recognized. Phylogenetic continuity homology structures across these have not be...